Hollywood and internet television

Hollywood enters online televisions market providing their own channel and the agreement has been intermediated by the ex executive of Walt Disney, Michael Eisner, according to the site Financial Times. The internet television operator Veoh, where Michael Eisner owns an important percent of shares has drawn an agreement with one of the biggest agencies seeking for talents Talent Agency (UTA), which represents actors like Johnny Depp, Ben Stiller and Harrison Ford.

The television channel, which will be created especially out of advertising, will introduce new talents and will try to discover the next Hollywood star. The channel will allow all the Veoh users to send and watch video content, like You Tube platform, owned by the internet giant Google.

The founders of internet telephone system Skype have announced as well that the program called Joost will be released. It is the first high quality service on the internet according to the site bbcnews.com.

PTV (Internet Protocol Television – television via internet) is a television service via broadband (broadband internet), instead of satellite, cable, or terrestrial network. Programs are loaded through the internet and the user receives two options to access them: live digital television (access to live programs) and Video on Demand (VoD).

These services will be released even in developing countries in approximately one or two years. Internet television will not be a secret anymore for anybody and it is a reliable source of entertainment and information as long as you are able to be selective and you have previous education concerning high quality programs.

Internet Television And Moral Values

Some programs on internet televisions claim to be natural, therefore people involved in them use a vulgar vocabulary; a tone which can hardly be considered civilized and even a grotesque style. Moral values like decency, discretion, elegance, delicacy, frailty, tenderness, solidarity are sometimes considered ridiculous and they are replaced with the cult of reaching success.

Nowadays, internet television owners want to be considered winners, but they do not think at all of the methods they use. They may use physical force, they may use guns, and they may use cunning, cynical selfishness or aggressive craft. For example, there are some popular programs on internet televisions and on traditional televisions as well, like “Big Brother” which is based on breaking intimacy, on treating people like human Guinea pigs. Such programs are extremely successful, but they are not moral!Internet television has the tendency to distort feelings, humor or competition, as long as there are some interactive programs which are created with and for people having a low cultural level. We do not say that entertainment is not necessary or that each individual must be a fan of Dostoyevsky or Kafka!

The problem is that internet television. especially can influence human behavior. It can model beliefs, as long as viewers may identify themselves with the characters they see and they sometimes adapt these representations to their everyday life. We all enjoy technical progress and we are happy that internet television is a new opportunity, but we must be selective and help our children understand it too.

Internet on TV waves

A team of professionals from Microsoft, Philips, Google, Intel, HP and many other famous names are trying to create a new type of internet connection, using the frequency of the old analogical television. As analogical television programs via radio waves are considered inefficient from the point of using the spectrum, regulatory organisms have decided that in a few years televisions will broadcast only digitally. Thus, new technologies can be used for radio broadcasting on the frequencies, which are still free. The European Union for example will switch from analogical to digital until 2012. Some western countries will perform this switch earlier, since 2010. In the USA, the switch from analogical to digital will take place until February 2009.

Obviously, the leaders of global technology could not miss the opportunity. The news about internet broadcasting on the television frequency has emerged when the Federal Commission for Communications in the USA (FCC) has rejected a proposal coming from North America Philips Electronics, Microsoft, Earth Link, Google, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell and so on. The technological alliance of these scientists has proposed the broadcast of the internet signal on frequencies, which are not used by television. FCC has rejected the documentation, motivating that the new type of broadcast can cause interferences. Yet, Kevin Martin, the president of the American regulatory organism has explained that he does not reject the idea. The American agency wants to find a way to broadcast the internet on frequencies, which are not used.

Edmond Thomas, the representative of this technological fusion says that the spectrum can be used without interfering with TV channels transmissions.

Internet television for common people

New internet televisions do not have high budgets so they need audience in order to make profit. Therefore, it is said that the purpose of internet televisions is not, at least at their beginning, to educate common people. Somebody said that the amount of intelligence in the world was constant, whereas the number of people was increasing, continuously and rapidly. Therefore, most internet televisions have a political role and in many countries, politics does not really want to educate people, as an educated nation becomes difficult to manipulate and to control. Moreover, low quality movies are cheaper.

If movies broadcast by internet television were high quality ones, people would not go to the cinema and would not buy any DVDs anymore. Besides, cultural or scientific programs do not have many sponsors because their audience is not high. Then, what does internet television offer? Are all their programs addressed to audience having an IQ under the average?

Well, that is not true, as internet television can as well provide instructive programs related to domains of general interest like health, psychology, music for all tastes, movies for all tastes, culture, gastronomy, or social life. Actually, you can find everything you want on internet television, according to your educational background, from sport to artistic movies, from explicit sex to sites dedicated to religious education.

Nowadays you can find people of real value working in the domain of internet television and really trying to leave something precious behind them, irrespective of the category of people who click on their television site.

Television and 3D internet

3D television and reception of programs on mobile screens are points of maximum interest at the international salon in Berlin, dedicated to electronics for the large public. Some people believe that the future of the television is the internet, and others do not want to hear about such a prediction. Recently, at the international salon of electronic products (IFA) in Berlin experts have presented three-dimensional television, which appears to be the future of the television, even a near future. Television was an invention of the 20^th century.

Many people say that it is outdated and the 21^st century belongs for sure to the internet. This does not mean that traditional television will simply disappear from our everyday life. However, it will change, in order to keep the alert rhythm of modern life. Studies show that people watch less television while they prefer to search the web. In order to survive, television must fusion with the internet. A viewer in the world of the future will sit comfortably in his armchair and will have available about three million television programs. He will choose his favorite one and he will download it.

Apparently, it is in the advantage of the users. Everybody will be satisfied at the programs broadcast by different channels. There is a reverse too. The budget of the TV productions will be established according to the number of viewers. In addition, quality will have to suffer, as televisions will focus on attracting more and more viewers via easy subjects.

Whenever, wherever televisions comes via internet

The computer is for some time the rival of televisions as far as watching movies at home is concerned. Analysts in the domain say that changes in the area are only at the beginning. In a few years, users will get used to resorting to the internet in order to download into the computer or into a mobile device the favorite programs and TV show, live or recorded, filmed from the most favorable angles.

The tendency of switching to the internet television has become clear at a recent edition of a consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, according to international press. Here many companies presented their offer of video online services, for example the American telephone operator SBC and the giant Microsoft

SBC Communications has announced that they have developed a technology to compress television signals, which can be thus transferred quickly via internet to the user’s television. The service has been called IPTV and it will be available in the USA in the near future. The network will have the technical possibility to broadcast TV channels having a series of supplementary facilities, like a football match in which the viewer can choose permanently between six different filming angles.

It is a very good opportunity for us to switch to TV programs business, has declared Randall Stephenson, operations director of SBC. This type of business gives us the chance to obtain an income per user of about 60 dollars per month, which can increase more and more every day to our delight.

Joost

As Vint Cerf, the founder of the internet has predicted, the future of the television is online. His prediction has been preceded by a daring project, which began in 2006. This project is Joost, a service that offers free hundreds of programs and TV serials. At the beginning, though it has been known under the name of Venice Project. Its creators are Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, who have also founded services, which revolutionized the internet, especially concerning communication and file transfer, like Skype and Kazaa.

The purpose of Joost is to offer freely a diversified range of serials and television programs. Thus, its owners have signed contracts with owners like Viacom, and Warner Music. Another important producer in the list of future contracts is FOX Networks.

In order to enjoy the multitude of programs and serials broadcast by Joost you have to do two things. First, you need an account. Up to now, you needed an invitation in order to create an account. However, since 2 October, when the 1.0 beta version was released, Joost is available for anybody. Then you have to download and to install the program bearing the same name. You will need the name and the password you have chosen when you have created the account in order to open the program.

In order to transmit the content, Joost uses P2P TV technology. It offers a better speed than classical transfer of information does because each user proceeds in the same time to download and upload of the programs they watch.

The internet, the television of the future

Any computer owner who has internet connection can say goodbye now to boredom. This is possible thanks to the access to the television via internet. There are some countries where this service can be performed by two kids who know how to program computers.

Therefore, you have now the opportunity to watch television programs directly on the screen of your computer. There are a few families now who do not have a television, or who do not have access to the internet.

For example in student hostels, the internet is more popular than the television; therefore, internet television is most welcome. We do not talk about television channels which broadcast only online, neither about the use of the TV Tuner.

Internet television is only a simple alternative to static television, as laptop owners connected via wireless to the internet can watch MTV 2, for example, on the move. There are such services available in different countries.

Via internet television, you can watch many national and foreign programs, and most of them are provided by the other major operators through special packets. This service is integrally digitalized and it does not need a device installed at home or uncomfortable cables.

Everything is done via computer and with the computer. Besides, users have access to management EPG functions, which offer free alert settings via SMS for favorite programs, mail alerts, or the TV program for any channel a week in advance. All you have to do is apply for internet connection if you have not already done it.

Welcome online

If you want to be informed from the point of view of social, political, and administrative life of your city or of the area, you live in; the good news is that there are online televisions willing to satisfy your curiosity.

You can find online real networks of programs, with materials filmed on the occasion of different events which attract the attention of public opinion, news, reports, interviews, commentaries, etc.

This system of television online is something new in some countries and now some of them are the only ones broadcasting under a certain format. Within a specific format, visitors from that country or from abroad can watch materials about central public administration’s activity, about the presidents or governments, where teams belonging to those televisions go in order to gather materials.

On this purpose, their studios are usually endowed with the most advanced equipment.
Online television channels broadcast in more countries all over the world, therefore they can contribute to the development of close social, political, and cultural relationships.

In the same time with the release of online televisions, many people who live in a specific country or from abroad can access their sites and express their opinions about the materials presented. This is a good idea because interactivity can lead to better programs, to continuous improvement of their activity.

Online television teams are professional and they do their best to take part in the most important events in order to broadcast them immediately for those who want to be informed and read with interest reports, inquiries, and commentaries.

We would have to wait only for one year

Although for now this hypothesis may belong to science fiction movies, Finnish researchers claim that plans may become reality in only one year. The Finnish company Teleste may trigger a real revolution in the domain of broadband, and the average speed of data transfer supported by TV cable networks is to grow more than 50 times. However, in order to justify all these promises, the company has offered few details, trying probably to create first an advertising flux, which can attract more and more curious people.

Obviously, any offer, which promises great download speeds and browsing at broadband standards under the conditions in which is not necessary to invest huge amounts of money, sounds very good and the global tendency to adopt broadband connections, becomes more and more clearly highlighted.

It is known however that this solution offered by Teleste is based on a system, called Virtual Fiber. It is included in the cable provided by the television operator and makes the connection with an Ethernet source, which can assure the transfer of 10-20 or even 30 MBps, amount necessary for video programs broadband. Now the technology is to be tested within a project developed by Teleste together with a Hollandaise cable television operator.

The Ethernet signal is assured without involving a modem or any active device in the house and the user only has to connect the computer to the branch point, which includes both connectors for TV signal and for the internet. The same branching point divides the mixed signal in different streams for cable television and internet.

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