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...using my pre-med roommate’s digital calculator—it was, miraculously, no bigger than a telephone, and none of us had ever seen one; then, during our junior and senior years, Apple and Microsoft were founded, and in our 20s we were all using PCs...
...using my pre-med roommate’s digital calculator—it was, miraculously, no bigger than a telephone, and none of us had ever seen one; then, during our junior and senior years, Apple and Microsoft were founded, and in our 20s we were all using PCs...
This may well be the future of entertainment. Fast two-way connections over PCs, TVs and mobile phones are converging, plunging us into a world where viewers become part of the programming. Once platforms switch from analog to digital technology, interactive applications like personalized programs, chat rooms, takeout food orders and online banking will become interactive options for your TV. The size of the potential market is immense: there are already 1.1 billion households worldwide with televisions. Today, about 34 million get digital TV; according to a report by Merrill Lynch, that number will jump to 221 million within four...
...which reaches more than 340 million households in 150 countries, chose France and Sweden as the launchpads. Penetration of digital cable is higher in those countries than elsewhere. Since streaming media via the Internet Protocol Standard is not yet possible over TV, MTV Live will initially air over PCs, then migrate to television after their standards merge. "It is one way to stay ahead of the curve," says William Roedy, president of MTV Networks International...
...While Europe is in the digital TV vanguard, MTV is trying to leverage the most advanced applications in every region, treating each as a kind of interactive television laboratory. In Japan, which leads the world in mobile phone applications, viewers of Select MTV vote via text messaging or PCs for their favorite tunes. But because the television platform is not yet fully digital, their votes don't appear instantly on the TV screen. Shoji Doyama, chairman of MTV Japan, says that by year's end the company plans to introduce "some interactivity into all of its TV programming, permitting voting...