Iceberg and television

For some people, the Titanic was, indirectly, a symbol and a landmark in defining what mankind would become because of television.

In David Sarnoff’s biography, one of the most influential persons who imposed television in America and who made out of the letters NBC the most appreciated symbols in the area, there is an episode during his youth when it is said that on the night of 14 to 15 April 1912 when the Titanic sank, he was only a Morse code receptionist assistant. That night, he was left to work and he received the SOS message from the Titanic, and he was the one who let it known to the world.

Skipping this detail, maybe this is the best example in expressing what television actually is, including internet television.

Since the Titanic, people are unfortunately interested only in the tip of the iceberg in anything broadcast by television. Nothing more!

The colossal system of television nowadays cannot sink if every day it comes across easygoing topics and subculture, which can be associated with a dangerous iceberg tip, but it can maybe trigger the necessity to rediscover people and their real spiritual needs.

At the moment, internet television can be an alternative, a solution. However, there is long way until subculture will be overcome by high quality internet TV programs. Most of them are currently overwhelmed by sexual or even pornographic connotations, there are many anonymous who insist on expressing their opinions, there are offered many opportunities in different domains, so that you can be really confused sometimes and you do not even know if they deserve your credibility.

Internet Television Predictions

The internet will revolutionize television in the following 5 years, because of the online video content boom and because of personal computers and televisions emergences.
The popularity of You Tube has led to a decrease in teenagers watching televisions for hours even all day long.

In the near future, more and more consumers will appreciate the flexibility offered by online services, giving up to conventional television services, with their fixed programs, interrupted by ads.

Concrete issues like elections or Olympic Games highlight the weak side of televisions. You must wait for a person to speak about the event you are interested in or otherwise you lose the event and you would like to go back in time in order to watch it. Providing these programs via internet is obviously superior.

Nowadays, watching videos on the computer is a different experience from the experience offered by series and documentaries on television. However, convergence is coming, offering new alternatives for television and advertising companies.

Moreover the impact of internet TV over advertising will be deep, being more focused on personalizing ads according to each consumer’s profile. During the next months experiments will be released in order to study people’s reactions at them, building up an efficient model, beneficial, both for advertisers and for users.

Advertising agencies compete in order to adopt their own strategies to the growing power of the internet, while more and more sums of money are awaited to migrate, in the future, from the television to web sites.

Ice Cube and Microsoft

If you are a fan of rap music you have certainly heard of Ice Cube. Actually he is an actor as well. However, this time he is not releasing any hit and he is not starring in any movie. He has decided, together with the producer DJ Pooh to contact Microsoft team in order to release the first live online television in the world, UVNTV.com. To continue with, Microsoft executive has declared in an interview that they are delighted to work with DJ Pooh and Ice Cube, as their artistic qualities are extremely useful in this case.
Furthermore, UVNTV stands for U View, Network Television and it will include more channels having different content, such as Hip Hop at any moment of the day, in which Ice Cube is involved or Snoopadelic TV, coordinated by Snoop Dog. The good news is that the site will allow users to prove their talent and to take part in auditions for their own program UVNTV.
This network television has just taken over a series of channels which broadcast different programs, from musical video clips to films and serials. Their purpose has actually been to create something in order to gain popularity and to belong for more time to show biz world, as younger kids on the block can come at maximum speed with new, fresh ideas and can blur older ones. Finally, UVNTV is, as well, a welcoming host for channels belonging to the magazines The Source and Vibe, in order to offer more information to their fans.

Ice Cube and Microsoft

If you are a fan of rap music you have certainly heard of Ice Cube. Actually he is an actor as well. However, this time he is not releasing any hit and he is not starring in any movie. He has decided, together with the producer DJ Pooh to contact Microsoft team in order to release the first live online television in the world, UVNTV.com.

To continue with, Microsoft executive has declared in an interview that they are delighted to work with DJ Pooh and Ice Cube, as their artistic qualities are extremely useful in this case. Furthermore, UVNTV stands for U View, Network Television and it will include more channels having different content, such as Hip Hop at any moment of the day, in which Ice Cube is involved or Snoopadelic TV, coordinated by Snoop Dog. The good news is that the site will allow users to prove their talent and to take part in auditions for their own program UVNTV.

This network television has just taken over a series of channels which broadcast different programs, from musical video clips to films and serials. Their purpose has actually been to create something in order to gain popularity and to belong for more time to show biz world, as younger kids on the block can come at maximum speed with new, fresh ideas and can blur older ones. Finally, UVNTV is, as well, a welcoming host for channels belonging to the magazines The Source and Vibe, in order to offer more information to their fans.

Bill Gates predictions about Internet TV

In an interview, Bill Gates predicted that television will be interactive and we will watch it only via internet. The cell phone will become a remote control. We will be more and more connected to the network in the kitchen, dining room, bedroom, and car and in the open, in order to be informed and to share digital life.

Actually what Mr. Gates predicted can be called connected entertainment. More precisely, movies and television will come into our living room via network, a high-resolution one. You can watch TV via consoles for games or media center, the version improved by a computer, which can be connected to flat screen TV, a computer that, after a warm start knows a unique boom, especially in the USA. By Christmas, 80 % of the computers sold were media center. There are already, all over the world 30 million units, says gates. Thanks to these systems connected to the internet and television, you can purchase a movie only clicking via the remote control.

IPTV can offer everything you expect from a great television experience. You can watch and record standard television programs or high-resolution ones, and you can as well search quickly favorite programs as actor, title, or director. It will be a new television, interacting with the computer. You can chat with your friends who are online while you are watching a match or share images, music, texts.
You can live an experience of total connection, 24 hours a day. However, there cannot be found a solution for the time spent sleeping…

WebTV the combination of Internet and television

WebTV is one of the most recently developed internet technologies. If you do not have a computer, but you like watching television very much, WebTV brings the internet directly onto your screen. Via a receiver or a special terminal, you will have the possibility to use the remote control in order to switch from the internet to your favorite television channel.

This combination of television and internet has started in September 1996 when WebTV Networks has offered the first terminal to internet users. These WebTV terminals for the internet use technologies, which already exist in telephony and television in order to allow the user, commute between television and internet. Even if at the beginning there were many skeptical people, the combination proved to be a remarkable success.

To continue with, WebTV configuration is simple. You must have either a terminal for WebTV telephone, Internet Terminal, either a receiver WebTV called Plus Receiver, as well as a monthly subscription for Network Services WebTV. WebTV Networks offers two levels of services: the network WebTV (which needs WebTV as internet terminal) or WebTV as plus Network, which uses WebTV as plus receiver. You can choose the first option if you only want to complete the facilities of your television set, with the internet access facility. If you want to integrate the internet completely as well as television, you can choose WebTV plus.

There are many people thinking that WebTV is a challenging concept, for both television and internet.

Internet Television the playground of the future

Traditional television is threatened! It is not threatened by any disaster, but by the internet. The difficulties which traditional television faces nowadays can be compared with the crisis of the radio when the first television shows were broadcast.

It is not news that more and more people prefer to spend time on the internet instead of watching TV. Moreover, in many cases the web, which is omnipresence, has become a more important source of information than television. Television people are worried because the number of viewers who migrate towards the internet in the disadvantage of traditional television is constantly increasing and practically every year 12% of the viewers choose as main source of entertainment and information the internet, not a TV set, even if they provide flat screen or plasma versions or any other sophisticated ones.

Internet TV, on the other hand offer many entertainment opportunities to users. It provides online shops and other applications, which help them find more quickly films, music, or favorite information, via sites like Amazon or iTunes Music Store.

At global level, television industry produces every year 31 million hours of programs belonging to different categories, but users have access only to about 3-4% of them and the percent of the programs, which are watched, is even lower.

If this tendency will continue, in about 4 years the number of people who want only internet television can exceed with 5% the number of people who constantly watch television, and this can be a warning for traditional televisions which must find solutions if they want to survive.

Online television for kids

Children are the most important aspect in family life. This is the idea on which online television for kids is based. Children do not need only entertainment programs like games, films, or cartoons; they also need educative programs and useful information for their parents. This television online can be one of the most generous and the most successful one.

Children need the most beloved cartoon characters, famous songs with and for kids, the most spectacular zoos in the world, and of course plenty of games provided by artists who are able to enter children’s minds. Otherwise, they can be boring because children want every minute something new. They want entertainment and interesting programs to stimulate their mind, their creativity.

To continue with, televisions online for kids can be useful as well for their parents and they can join their kids while they watch their favorite programs and they can explain them many things which otherwise can be misunderstood by children. Thus, the number of visitors can increase.

Moreover, children can send their own films, or photos or stories and they can enrich the archive of the site. Besides, such televisions can be very interactive as kids can ask questions, can comment on the films they watch or can send answers to questions.
Children’s imagination is stimulated by songs in foreign languages, drawing lessons, other different entertaining, and educative programs carefully monitored by a team made of television staff, teachers, and psychologists.

Furthermore, you all know that children love surprises; therefore, they have the possibility to enjoy them accessing a special online television for them.

Online Television for Your Health

Online televisions programs dedicated to health are meant to underline the importance of healthy life and prevention and to facilitate access to professionals in the domain of health.

These television companies want to offer the audience programs, conceived with the help and the support of some reputed physicians, different personalities in the area, organizations related to health. Such organizations can be Greenpeace, agricultural or ecological organizations, ambulance services, anti drug agencies; they can join such projects and become partners of online televisions dedicated to health. On sites of online televisions for public health, those who are interested can watch structured programs, produced in collaboration with expert physicians and many other materials on themes in the health domain. According to statistics, the most frequently watched health programs are those related to eyes, throat and nose problems, heart problems, plastic surgery issues, as well as medical emergencies. To continue with, ecological programs approaches refer to alimentation, allergies, skin problems, diets, natural remedies, nutrition, gynecological problems, oncology, legs diseases, pediatric problems, sexology, and complementary therapies.

Programs are loaded on a daily basis and there can be as well series related to beauty and plastic surgery or emergencies. Such series can debate as well problems related to the environment, to the food we eat and its consequences upon heart diseases and so on. Online televisions related to health try to reduce the distance between doctors and patients and make them feel more comfortable with their problems and they can even intimate better with doctors during interactive programs.

Entertainment Industry Online

Online television is about to overcome the old habit of getting bored in front of the TV. Zapping will be replaced with the more familiar clicks and television producers will increase competition for viewers’ attention.

According to statistics, in many countries traditional television is not as popular as it used to be…

Why online television

A recent study has shown that more than 45% of Europeans are fans of online television, watching episodes from their favorite programs, recorded or live. It appears that this choice is related to the flexibility that online television offers. People already submit to schedules imposed by other people in other domains of life, for example in their jobs, that is why they choose online television because they can choose what they want to see and when they want to see it.

This kind of television has its advantages like watching repeatedly favorite programs.

Online in percent
The market of a television connected via an IP is continuously evolving so that in France, more than 59% of the people have adopted this kind of television and in Italy 48%. British start to like it gradually as 43% of them are already converted.

The study has also shown that this kind of television tends to get a shape, which allows better communication, therefore getting more adepts. All over the world, actually online television develops every day because now people seem to be really fascinated at what can be hidden behind a click and the internet world can influence their subconscious mind better than television.

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