Monday, June 30th, 2008

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM CMT


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CMT’s new hidden camera prank series
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Fridays starting July 4 at 10:30/9:30c

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Cynopsis: DIGITAL

06/30/08

Good morning, it’s Monday, June 30, 2008, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.

Sony announced a new strategy focused around video downloading and portability. Beginning this summer in the U.S. the PlayStation 3, like the Xbox before it, will offer movies and other video content as paid downloads. The company is working on enabling users to easily transfer video files purchased on the PS3 to PCs and portable devices. Sony also said its much-hyped Will Smith feature Hancock will be offered for purchase via broadband-connected Bravia TV sets before it is released on DVD. If a vertically integrated company like Sony really commits to moving its platforms around, the cable bypass issue (cutting your cable subscription and relying instead on digital downloads) could really heat up.
 

~ MULTIPLATFORM CONTENT NEWS ~

 
New Line/WB’s Journey to the Center of the Earth remake will be the first live-action wide release to be exhibited using a new 3D stereoscopic projection format developed from RealD (which also powered that U2 3D concert movie.) RealD’s technology alternatively projects right-eye and left-eye frame images then polarizes them using a liquid crystal screen placed in front of the projector lens.
 
Clear Channel Radio
finished upgrading all of its radio stations – all 700 stations are now broadcasting in HD and have been tagged on iTunes so they can be listened to on an iPod equipped with a FM receiver.
 

~ INNOVATORS & START-UPS ~

 
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane will produce a new original web show “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy” that will be distributed in 50 2-minutes webisodes across a new contextual network based on Google’s AdSense code, reports The New York Times. The Google Content Network‘s demographic targeting ability will enable advertisers to buy pre-roll, display and others ads for clips served only to specific audiences. (Young men, in this case.)
 
A new free voice activated application was launched by a start-up called Dial2Go enabling users to send emails, to update their calendars or to send text or twitter messages with simple voice commands. It comes just in time for “Hands Free law” (which is finally going into effect in California on July 1.) 
 
Dailymotion and creator of VH1’s Pop-Up Video program Tad Low launched The Truth About Dailymotion Videostars. The program enables original content producers to submit videos for consideration to receive pop-up video treatment as in the classic music video show.
 

~ GADGETS & APPS ~

 
Check out this new desktop gadget from Google that utilizes the “Universal Plug n’ Play” spec to stream media across multiple devices. It can be used to port video, audio and photos from your PC to other devices that support the standard, including Sony’s PS3 and certain HP television sets. The Google Media Server works in conjunction with the Google Desktop dashboard, which is also a free download. (So far it’s only available for Windows.)
 


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~ TECHNOLOGY DEALS, MERGERS AND SKIRMISHES ~

 
Virgin Mobile USA agreed to acquire niche mobile phone service Helio for $39 million in stock. Virgin was attracted to Helio partly because of its advanced “postpaid” billing platform allowing users to access YouTube, MySpace and other popular web 2.0 sites. Helio’s 170,000 customers pay an average of $80/subscription. Virgin Mobile serves about 5 million customers in the U.S.
 
The federal government attained its first trial conviction for a peer-to-peer piracy, the Justice Dept. announced on Friday. Twenty six-year-old Daniel Dove was convicted of both felony copyright infringement and conspiracy for downloading movies and other files as an administrator of EliteTorrents.org and faces up to 10 years in prison. (Daniel’s fellow administrators took deals months ago.) The case against the site began back in 2005 when officials raided the EliteTorrents offices in a sting operation assisted by the MPAA.
 

~ EXECUTIVE MOVES ~

 
Simply Good Media hired former Marie Claire executive Christiana Yiallourides as Community Manager of its group of internet properties including fashion blog The Budget Fashionista, The Budget Ecoist and See Jack Shop. She reports to SGM CEO Kathryn Finney.
 


~ WEBSITE OF THE DAY ~

 
A new rich media search engine built in collaboration between AT&T and digital media start-up Divvio called VideoCrawler is advancing video search by focusing on two concepts. One is the idea of providing the user with tons of advanced search options to help them wade through the massive amounts of content out there on the web. You can choose to search by media type (audio, video, internet tv, slideshows, etc.) and user rating, then prioritize the results in order of relevancy (the default setting), most viewed, top rated, most recent or file duration. Customizable parental controls scan metadata to omit the offensive stuff. The site also works behind the scenes to push videos that are trending upward in views to the top of the list. VideoCrawler also smartly remembers your search preferences for next time so you don’t have to always set them. The other core feature here is a “collection” engine allowing users to build, bookmark and share collections of found treasures. Public collections can be viewed by anyone who logs onto the site. If you find someone who’s news clips collection you like, for instance, you can bookmark it then return when it’s updated. VideoCrawler is definitely a work in progress but AT&T is working hard to index every legitimate piece of content it can get its hands on. So far its crawls about 3,000 sites.
 
If you’re interested in checking it out before it goes into public beta, feel free to log on with a user name given to Cynopsis Media:
    user name: mediorite 
    password: beta0529

Note: I had trouble logging in with a Safari browser last night but Firefox seemed to work fine.

Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
06.30.08

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