Excerpt for features:

  • Televation acts as an independent content access point efficiently tuning all subscribed services and transcoding to the proper format without disrupting household viewing. Changing channels on the tablet is easy and doesn’t affect household members watching TV in other rooms.
  • Designed by our expert engineering team, Televation receives a QAM signal via coax, decodes and decrypts it using a QAM tuner and CableCARD, then transcodes and transrates from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4.
  • Televation protects content distributed within the home with CableLabs and DTLA approved IPRM, part of Motorola’s SecureMedia® DRM. It uses regulation CableCard technology to protect content delivered to the home.
  • Subscribers navigate Televation’s experience using an application on their tablet or device. Providers can either build their own branded App or use a customizable, ready-to-use App created by Motorola.

 

 

Adobe’s Kevin Lynch on the future of apps and publishing – from The Telegraph by Matt Warman
Kevin Lynch, the Chief Technical Officer of Adobe, explains that the effects of new mobile technology will be felt from the media to museums

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):

So it’s tablets, whether it’s in museums or on the sofa, that Lynch believes are set to transform both the company whose “tech vision” he runs and the consumer landscape. For now, however, he admits that reading magazines on an iPad can be a confusing experience: “a crazy world of interaction,” as he puts it.

Further into the future, Lynch says we should look forward to more screens everywhere, and more interaction between the screens too. “Roll-up displays, foldable displays, projection displays – all that technology is going to keep getting smaller. The world of the future is going to be a lot of screens,” he says. “So we’re thinking about tablets but we’re also thinking more broadly than that.”

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From DSC: It would be sharp (and somewhat James Bond-ish) if you could take the concepts within the iTable from Kyle Buckner Designs.com(esp. motorized parts and a customizable design)

 

Kyle Buckner Designs -- i table

 

…and combine those concepts with concepts found within a Microsoft Surface type of table: (esp. multi-touch capabilities for a group of people to work collaboratively on)

 

Microsoft Surface

 

…and combine those concepts with concepts found within Steelcase’s Media:Scape product (esp. the ability to bring your own device and instantly “connect” it and press a puck-like device to begin displaying it on the screen/table)

 

Steelcase's MediaScape

media:scape illustration

 

…kinda gives us a flavor for what may very well be part of the integration and continued convergence of devices…and it may be a device in your living room or study.

Apple’s new video regarding their iOS 5 operating system

 

Apple's video regarding their new iOS5

 

Apple's video regarding their new iOS5

 

From DSC:
I have it that these technologies will be used for educationally-related purposes/materials as well; including digital storytelling, transmedia storytelling, transmedia-based interactive/participative educational materials and more.

 

Explore the Connected Living Room -- per Amazon.com -- May 2011

From DSC:
Apple, Sonos, Cisco, and Crestron are also relevant companies that come to my mind in this arena.

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Future of Television – Video Podcast — from Phil Leigh’s Inside Digital Media, Inc.

 

The Future of TV -- Phil Leigh -- May 2011

 

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From DSC:
Speed, personalization, interactivity driving advancements in media today — I would submit that these trends are true for education as well.

See:

Excerpt:

Whether you’re talking about the future of television, news, or advertising, it’s all about speed, personalization, and interactivity. These three things are the driving considerations behind the advancement of all media today.

From DSC:
First, a word of caution. Due to the content of some of the stations available herein, I would recommend that only those people who are 18 or older visit this site.

 

 

WorldTV.com

Connected TV Summit: TV apps and second screen strategies — from tvgenious.net by Emma Wells

Excerpts (emphasis by DSC — especially as it relates to education & learning-based apps):

Connected TV has been around for a while, and 2010 has seen connected devices, especially smartphones, go mainstream.  One of the key highlights of today’s Summit was the fact that the second screen is becoming an important part of the TV environment.

New consumer behaviour patterns and the rapid pace of technology have given birth to TV everywhere strategies, companion apps, TV apps, and VoD adoption.

The TV App Experience

At the event, it was hypothesised that “consumers are starting to redefine what they see as television”. This is good news for TV app developers, as they seek to mould a new, modern, TV experience.

TV apps are seen as an ideal way to hand control over to the viewers.  Additionally, TV apps can be used as the gateway to personalised viewing, and social media-integrated content. According to BT’s Andy Heselwood, the connected TV winner will be “the company who makes the shared TV experience personal. How to do this effectively without cluttering the TV screen and ruining the “lean back” experience still remains to be seen.

The main benefit of TV apps is that they are lightfooted and require substantially less effort to update than the set top box (STB) or TV. This means that lifecycles can be accelerated, and there is more room for experimentation and development. During the summit, Siemens even went so far as to say that  TV apps on connected TVs can “throw the set top box out of your operations plan”.  If true, this prediction could spell trouble for STB manufacturers.

TV of Tomorrow (TVOT): Connected TVs, mobile devices drive interactive TV— from itvt.com

Also:

[itvt] is pleased to announce the winners of the 8th Annual Awards for Leadership in Interactive and Multiplatform Television:

Most Significant Impact:  Cablevision
Most Significant Newcomer:  AT&T U-verse
Most Significant Technology, Platform or Product: IntoNow (a Yahoo! company)
Most Significant Content Offering:  Current’s “Bar Karma”
Most Innovative Design or User Interface:  ZON TV Cabo (NDS)
Individual Leadership I: Dave Alloway, Cablevision
Individual Leadership II:  Vibha Rustagi, itaas
ITV All-Star: Jon Dakss, NBC Universal

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CloudTV app platform to take spotlight on two panels at The TV of Tomorrow Show — activevideo.com

 

 

SAN JOSE, CA (May 16, 2011) — Millions of screens today — and millions more by year’s end — will be available to TV app developers and content providers, according to remarks planned by ActiveVideo Networks™ executives for the TV of Tomorrow Show May 17 and 18 in San Francisco.

During the two-day conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ActiveVideo executives will speak on the “write once, deploy everywhere” merits of cloud-based application creation and delivery on a pair of panels. John Callahan, CTO, will discuss “The Emerging Primacy of the App: The ‘Appification’ of TV and its Implications,” scheduled for Tuesday, May 17, from 3:15 to 4:15 pm; and Michael Taylor, senior vice president, business development will talk about “Envisioning Cable’s Converged Future,” on Wednesday, May 18, from 4:00 to 5:15 pm. The two executives will be joined on the panels by counterparts from PlayJam, Movl, Rovi, NDS, Ooyala, ZeeVee and other companies.

 

Spoke Diagram

 

Softkinetic’s Corporate Video

 

 

Softkinetic corporate video

…and some other intriguing concepts.

 

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