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TECHNOLOGY: An even smarter smart phone; when TiVo and DVDS get hitched; shopping portals...
...interview for The New York Times last Sunday, told reporters about the vast amount of TV he and his family watch. Citing several programs from “Dexter’s Laboratory” to “SpongeBob SquarePants” and his chronic use of TiVo, Powell claims, “we’re the kind of house that if I’m home working, the TV’s on.” Well, I suppose it should be comforting that someone with such vital influence over media regulation—and, ergo, influence...
...each user. Yet the percentage of viewers signing up for the pricey $61-per-month premium service is in slow decline relative to those committing to the $19 basic service. BSkyB hopes to offset this in part by pushing its high end Sky+ service, in which it sells a TiVo-like "personal video recorder" for $322 to subscribers. But sales of Sky+ have crawled along. There are other threats, too. BSkyB lacks the technological goods to deliver what soothsayers believe to be the next big thing in television: video-on-demand (VOD), a service that allows viewers to select from...
...increasingly vulnerable as the only big network that wasn't aligned with a studio. NBC, for example, was bracing for a rumored $550 million demand from Universal this season for its Law & Order franchise. Meanwhile, advertising revenues were hobbled by a pallid economy and ad-zapping devices like TiVo, making sales of movies on DVDs and at the box office that much more attractive...
...dying to find out about the next big thing (witness the special gatefold in this issue). After all, Americans like things, and Americans like big. But why, in this age of too little time and too many distractions, should we care so much about next? My nightstand, desktop, TiVo menu and mental to-do list are still full of last big things I never got around to--The Hulk, Friendster, hot yoga (or, for that matter, cold yoga)--and I'm paid to keep up with this stuff. For the average person with an actual productive job, keeping up with...