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Sunday, 30th July 2006

Interactive TV and IPTV: Technology Info Pros Should Know About

As broadband continues to become mainstream (see these new stats for the U.S.) both interactive and IPTV (television delivered via the Internet) are two areas growing very rapidly and we believe it's techology that all info pros should be aware of and understand.

+ To get an idea of what this is all about, an extensive glossary of terms from Tracy Swedlow's "must have" free weekly newsletter: InteractiveTV Today and a blog.

+ Players: The Interactive TV Emmy Awards were just announced. Full List Winners and Nominees (via itvt).

The winner of the Award for Outstanding Achievement for Enhanced or Interactive Programming: Television is the TiVo Service (TiVo) The other finalists in this category were: AOL Music on Demand (AOL/Time Warner Cable/Zetools); CNN Enhanced (CNN); and DirecTV Interactive Sports (DirecTV).The winner of the Award for Outstanding Achievement for Enhanced or Interactive Programming: New Delivery Platforms is the ABC.com Full Episode Streaming Player (ABC). The other finalists in this category were Danny Bowles and the Jade Treasure, Stranger Adventures (Riddle Productions in association with Red Car); MLB.TV Mosaic (Major League Baseball/Ensequence); and Vongo Video Download Service* (Starz Entertainment Group).

The finalists were selected by the membership of the Television Academy's Interactive Media Peer Group, who made their selections through an online voting system. The winners were then chosen by a "Blue Ribbon" panel that met July 10th at the Academy. The Blue Ribbon panel was composed of:

Btw, an extra special kudos to Vongo. We're big fans and users of this service around ResourceShelf.

+ In terms of IPTV, Accenture and The Economist Intelligence Unit recently published a newsletter on the topic based on survey results. IPTV Monitor, Vol. 1 No. 1 is available (PDF) here. It's full of stats, graphs, and charts.

Again, all of this technology (and more) will become commonplace in the not too distant future and it's important for info pros to be up to speed.

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