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Sunday, November 13, 2005

Timeline of significant events for integrated TV & new media

I'm listing some of the major concepts in play and significant events to have taken place in the last several weeks relative to what's becoming a very active market: integrated television in the Digital Age. This is basically a reference list for those of us really into this stuff. I expect this to be a document that'll undergo several updates in the future, so bookmark this URL.

The future of TV is dictated by several emerging technologies and technological concepts:
  • The Internet is more powerful than any satellite or cable provider
  • Multimedia has better convergence potential for those companies already involved in it than plaintext (TV networks/affiliates stand more to gain than newspapers and magazines)
  • Platforms that are changing TV: DVRs/PVRs, video-enabled mobile phones/PDAs, mobile media devices
  • Consumption of mainstream media is in major decline
Timeline of major events from the past few of weeks in the integrated TV biz:
...meanwhile, the death knell continues to sound for the doomed world of print media:

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