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Cynopsis: DIGITAL

12/16/09

Good morning, it’s Wednesday, December 16, 2009, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.

Comcast flipped the switch on its TV Everywhere “Fancast Xfinity TV” service, now being promoted on the MSO’s Fancast.com online video portal. Comcast cable and internet customers in good standing (you must subscribe to both) can use the site’s authentication service to view full-length episodes of shows they receive through their cable subscriptions. The interface includes access to some 2,000 hours of programming from a total of 30 networks, including uncut movies and shows such as HBO’s The Sopranos. Comcast customers who don’t subscribe to the cable modem service will be able access the shows in the near future, according the company. A Fancast Xfinity mobile service and parental controls enabling blocking of forthcoming adult-oriented Cinemax content is also on the way.

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Paramount became the latest studio to launch a B2B online clip service, tapping white-label video services company Digitalsmiths to serve up and index segments from over 80 feature films. The platform is designed to enable Paramount to better monetize its entire library by indexing clips for use on websites, games, interactive apps and other digital uses. The studio’s licensees can search the metadata stored with each clip by actor, location or line of dialogue.
 
Business author Stephen R. Covey has sold the ebook rights for two of his best-selling books from his print publisher, CBS’s Simon & Schuster, to digital publisher RosettaBooks, which will in turn sell the ebooks via Amazon as part of a one-year exclusive deal, per the NYTimes.
 
The Meredith Parents Network announced three new digital content launches:

• a revamped Parents.com has added additional interactive content including hundreds of new videos and new interactive planning tools and calendars
• a new Parents Community social network on Parents.com encourages Moms to form groups around topics they’re interested in as well as interact with editors from Parents and American Baby
• the Parents Network also launched a new “iPlay and Learn” educational iPhone app featuring children quizzes, tracing programs, and flash cards for kids of all ages

 
CBSSports.com kicks off Bowl Bound on Friday, a new original video series sponsored by Nokia and Tyson featuring coverage from two sets of video crews deployed at multiple locales across the country.
 
Soap fans will be happy to hear that ABC.com has added All My Children and One Life to Live to its full episode player, also accessible via a link on the newly redesigned SOAPnet.com. The most recent 5 episodes will be available online with new episodes added everyday at 4 pm PT the day they air.
 

 
In the Evil Dead tradition, Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures is mixing horror with comedy in a new online and VOD series for Comcast’s FEARnet. In “Zombie Roadkilll,” Sideways star Thomas Haden Church plays a park ranger who must escape a cursed stretch of highway that resurrects roadkill as evil flesh-eating zombies. The series, directed by David Green and written by Henry Gayden, will be released over six, 4-5 minute episodes slated to premiere next Spring.
 
Continuing to mine for viewers among videogame enthusiasts, Dailymotion premiered two new series based upon Nintendo’s “Legend of Zelda” series. Fan film The Hero of Time joins a second season of Atom.com’ “Legend of Neil” yarn.
 
Babelgum.com announced it is picking up a second season of comedy series Old Friends, from Crossroads Films.
 
Following the acquisition of iLike and Imeem, San Francisco-based movie-themed social network site Flixter may be the next takeover target for MySpace as part of a plan to combine it with movie review site Rotten Tomatoes, reports AllThingsD.
 

 
Online video ad specialist VideoEgg is offering a new product utilizing ComScore‘s AdEffx ad measurement platform to provide consumer packaged goods advertisers additional insight into the effectiveness of their ads. VideoEgg will leverage ComScore data to measure the relationship between ad exposure and retail purchases, a holy grail of sorts for the ad industry.
 

 
Portland, OR-based Rentrak acquired Nielsen’s EDI box office reporting division for $15 million in cash, giving Rentrak a monopoly on all theatrical worldwide box office data capturing results from more than 50,000 movie screens in 14 countries. Nielsen EDI will be integrated into Rentrak’s online Box Office Essentials service.
 
Web site services firm WorldNow renewed its deal with Cox Media Group Digital to continue to manage Cox’s 15 local TV stations’ video technology platform.
 
Microsoft announced it is suspending the MSN Juku Chinese microbologging service after leading Taiwanese service Plurk accused the service of outright stealing its web design and code. Microsoft says the vendor it was using to design the service admitted to the theft.
 

 
Despite the excitement generated from new platforms, America is still mostly a nation of couch potatoes who spend a vast majority of their leisure time in front of the boob tube, according to the latest update to the “Entertainment Trends in America” consumer tracking surveys conducted by The NPD Group. Some 81% of respondents reporting watching an average of 10 hours of TV per week (not including movies.) Other finding included:

• Despite the proliferation of iPods and other MP3 players, 78% of Americans still spend 5+ hours/week listening to traditional AM/FM radio, with 60% still listening to music on a CD
• 70% of Americans spend 4 hours/week on average on IM and email
• Some 47% visited social networking sites, spending an average of 5 hours/week
• 11% of respondents reported tweeting an average of 3 hours/week

 
Top 5 Leisure Time Activities in the U.S.
(based on % of consumers who took part in prior week)

0. Watch TV show/sports/news (excluding movies):                81%
0. Listen to music on traditional AM/FM radio (not satellite):    78%
0. Instant-messaging or e-mailing:                                        70%
0. Listen to music on a CD:                                                   60%
0. Watch a movie on TV (excluding PPV and VOD):                 58%

Source: The NPD Group
 

 
Despite scant content for the platform and high prices of existing 3D sets, South Korea’s LG Electronics made a bold prediction about the embryonic 3D TV market, projecting sales of 400,000 3D TVs in 2010 and 3.4 million in 2011.
 
CBS Mobile unveiled a new free CNET Scan & Shop App for Android, enabling shoppers to research tech and consumer electronics goodies by scouring CNET editor reviews, user reviews, product specs, and pricing info.
 
Google is in talks with T-Mobile USA to sell the upcoming Nexus One handset to its customers at a discount, per The WSJ. The company is looking to complement its direct online distribution strategy with a retail presence.
 

 
Ad sales software provider Invision Inc. named former Platform-A President Lynda Clarizio as its new CEO. She replaces Christine Watkins, founder of the company, who has moved up to serve as Chairman of the Board. Existing investors including ABS Capital, Garvin Hill and Ms. Watkins have also agreed to commit an additional $5 million in funding to the company.
 
Sophia Stuart will begin a new position as Executive Director, Digital for Hearst Magazines International (HMI), a unit of Hearst Magazines, on Jan. 5. She formerly served as Executive Director, Mobile for Hearst Magazines Digital Media. Sophia will report to Duncan Edwards, HMI’s president and CEO. 
 
Charles Sismondo was upped to VP/Engineering for online video solutions provider Sorenson Media, which announced yesterday that it will be looking to expand its staff in the coming year.
 

 
Live online video platform Qik launched a new desktop app Qik-in-Touch in private beta that allows users to stream, organize and edit live video from friends and family on Windows, Mac and Linux-based computers. Not enough has been done in terms of allowing users to manipulate live video streams, so this is a welcome development. Qik was one of the first developers to release an iPhone app that allows you to shoot and share live video from the 3GS iPhone (in non-real time.) It connects via WiFi or via AT&T’s much maligned 3G network and will alert your friends when you have a new stream to share via Twitter. UStream beat Qik to the punch earlier this month when Apple approved a version of its software that streams live from the phone to multiple users with cool features like live polling. But Qik’s version should be forthcoming and will likely be worth waiting for. One feature that is particularly intriguing on the app submitted to the App Store for approval is the ability to share the location you’re shooting from. The interface allow the producer to determine at what level you want to share this info at, but one option is to allow friends and fans to utilize GPS to pinpoint your exact location.
 

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Later — Wayne
 Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
12.16.09

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SITUATION WANTED: MUSIC LICENSING (LA): 10+ Experience in Music Licensing. Clearance, Song Selection, Contracts. Resume on IMDb. Email Sean Fernald at: [email protected] (12/19)

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