The second screen phenomenon is beginning to draw attention from researchers. We’ve gone from Social TV to Fragmented TV and the next stage will be Networked TV…
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The Networked TV Era
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As Adobe announces its programme for being embedded in STBs, it seems that Google's Android phone OS is also being widely adopted as the OS for STBs.
Behind this is the craze for TV widgets, the idea that the TV can be extended in many ways via mobile phone type app shops.
If my experience of similar systems in hotel rooms a decade or so ago, this is an ill conceived concept.
People want to watch video on their TV, not send email.
The real opportunity's with complementing what's going on on the big screen via the secondary or complementary screen, i.e. a PC or mobile.
It's why it'll be worth keeping an eye on what my colleagues at Vidiactive are up to as we come out of stealth mode now that our patent has been filed.
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Widget, squidget
The proposed Broadcast ‘Mini Bill’ has become a necessity if the UK is to end up with any media companies left at all apart from the BBC.
It’s now too late to bring back the BBC and BBC Worldwide to a proportionate level and practically every UK media company is leveraged up to the hilt – and those who aren’t are wondering how they can shore up their balance sheets in the short term.
The reality is that the UK media landscape is going to end up with huge holes that need to be filled, from local newspapers produced and funded in new and original ways to local tv services delivered over the internet.
The future of media, just like its past, is based on finding a commercial formula and then replicating it.
For the old media companies they just see pounds into pence and aren’t willing to cannibalise themselves before they’re eaten alive.
So, the traditional broadcasters and local newspaper operators (ITV, Five, Trinity, DMGT, Johnston Press, and the radio groups to name a few..) are far too late no matter what they do now. These companies are in decline or leveraged to a point where they have no access to working capital to re-invent themselves. A year ago they had the chance of raising capital and being bold, or even being acquired by overseas media companies.
ITV’s best hope remains in rolling up Freeview and Virgin Media, but Sky’s shameful shenanigans have probably put paid to this, and with a CEO who’s intent in turning the company into an American style ’studio’ – i.e. a super production company – Plan B looks doomed.
The only light in this gloom are the UK production companies building international formats, brands and properties that can be exploited globally. The UK has been spectacularly bad at infrastructure, but particularly good at developing and globally marketing service products across a raft of industries, the media being central amongst these.
As with everything else, from railways to finance, this is because of the UK’s unique laissez-faire politics. But now is the time to shore up our infrastructure, to sort out the dreadful anomalies which are private broadband provision and the BBC, and to create a new, level playing field, where the next generation of world class TV companies can develop before we drown under a flood of American cop show channels.
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Silver Lining
Make of this what you will…. I cannot comment for legal reasons.
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Hung Out To Dry
You would think that a Pavlovian reflex would be the base human response to anything, but we still fly with Ryanair, who deliberately make flying unpleasant, and still take our TV from Sky and Virgin, who are, in my experience, pretty awful at customer service.
But, they do, at least have customer service. If you go your own way with Freeview/Freesat there’s no long term billing relationship, so why should they care..
So, the bad doctor becomes our prognosticator. In the world of TV we will pay heartily for help…
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