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.

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