BIT320 Remix — television
December 7, 2005
Variety.com - Peeved over TiVo
Topics: TiVo apple iPod sony television
will we be able to dL tv shows from TiVo to iPods and Playstations?
In del.icio.us/jbartko, 12/07/2005 | Original | Archive
December 1, 2005
Time Warp 2000 - Forbes.com
Topics: advertising internet television
dot-com companies are spending a lot of money on TV advertising - for example, pets.com
In del.icio.us/jbartko, 12/01/2005 | Original | Archive
November 21, 2005
TiVo Connects with IPod, PSP - Yahoo! News
Topics: entertainment iPod television
Tivo iPod and PSP!
In del.icio.us/zeenah, 11/21/2005 | Original | Archive
November 14, 2005
AOL, Warner to Bring Old TV Shows Online - Yahoo! News
Topics: fun television
Reruns are my life..I'm excited!
In del.icio.us/zeenah, 11/14/2005 | Original | Archive
November 13, 2005
I like this exchange
Topics: Opinionslug television
JB and Tigerlily had an interesting exchange regarding the ability to download programs for 99 cents vs. just using Tivo. My personal view is “Why watch the program at all?”
One issue that Tivo-ing raises is that you have to preplan what it is you are going to watch. As it turns out, Tivo owners tend to watch more TV. You don’t know if that is because they were already heavy watchers or whether Tivo made them heavy watchers.
My own view is that the move by networks to allow downloading is based on the recognition that they may not always get the attention they want for the program at the time they choose to air it, so why not allow for word-of-mouth to generate additional viewings. Tigerlily was right to remark this.
At the end of the day though, I think this move will only help some shows. Most will simply not be watched because people do not have the time.
In Blogonautic Solutions, 11/13/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati
November 12, 2005
Don’t pay for that episode - TiVo it.
Topics: Opinionslug television
Tigerlily recently posted about CBS and NBC starting to sell downloads of popular TV shows for 99cents per episode, through DirecTV. Tigerlily says:
It doesn’t seem like this would be very popular. Why not just Tivo it? Or, if you don’t have the ability to digitally record TV (I’m not sure who doesn’t anymore) you can always use the old VCR. No one has ever paid to watch a single episode before, and I’m not sure we’ll start. ought up another great point when she said that most downloads can be found illegally anyway, so won’t people just get them for free? It would seem so. However, for some reason, Apple does make money off the iTunes store… people like the guaranteed quality. Maybe the commercial-free feature of these TV downloads will have the same effect for NBC and CBS.I guess I am not sure that it was a wise move, meaning I don’t think that it will be very profitable for them. What do you think? Do you think this “sales model” will bring in more money?
In jb's blog, 11/12/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati
October 20, 2005
Advertising On Demand - Forbes.com
Topics: advertising television
long-form ads on digital tv risk fast-forwarding; Rentrak is in the business of measuring the delivery of these ads
In del.icio.us/jbartko, 10/20/2005 | Original | Archive
September 23, 2005
Chevy: a first in advertising, or a big annoyance?
Topics: advertising chevrolet television
I was watching Jay Leno tonight for the first time in about a month. I noticed that I was seeing a lot of Chevy ads, and that these ads were ridiculously long. I found this article online, and now I understand what’s going on. Chevy purchased all the advertising time during this episode of Jay Leno - an advertising first.. The super-long commercials feature Andy Dick presenting entries to an ad competition for the HHR to a boardroom of Chevy execs. The entries are actual submissions to the contest that made it to this final round. The winner gets an HHR.
Good for Chevy. But I have never been more annoyed by commercial breaks. The commercials were not even good. Andy Dick appears annoying, and the “execs” are horrible actors. I think advertising to this extent has more of a negative impact than anything. Variety in commericial breaks can be fun, and this was taken away tonight by Chevy. In addition, the ads confused me. I had no idea that there was a contest going on until I looked online. This should have been made clear. And why is Andy Dick in all of the entries? I thought average people submitted them…
In jb's blog, 09/23/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati
