Entries Tagged as ‘Feature’

November 11, 2008

Broadcasters Race Towards Mobile TV

MobilizedTV spoke with Anne Schelle, Executive Director of the Open Mobile Video Coalition about the work the coalition is doing to enable its 800 broadcast TV members to go mobile.
What’s new since NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) in April?
AS: Since NAB, we filed our trial results with the FCC. We tested three systems: LG/Harris’ MPH [...]

October 14, 2008

Fox Reality Channel Launches On iPhone

Reality TV fans just got news that may have them rushing out to buy an iPhone. Fox Reality Channel, the all-reality, all-the-time cable/satellite network within the News Corp. with 50 million subs and climbing” just launched a WAP site for the first Apple iPhone mobile video service to feature reality-only content. “It was important [...]

September 23, 2008

Adobe’s New Tools for Mobile Creators

You have no doubt read the press releases from Adobe Systems about its CS4 software for mobile content creators and you’ve probably heard of Adobe’s Open Screen project. If you’re a mobile content creator, should you care? MobilizedTV says Yes and explains why below.
Adobe’s Open Screen launched in May, the result of five years of [...]

September 18, 2008

Miss Playboy Mobile: First Step in a Global Mobile Strategy

In April this year at CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas, Playboy Mobile announced Miss Playboy Mobile 2008, sponsored by THQ Wireless and Viva! Vision.

With carriers in control of content, adult content has been largely shut out of the mobile content game in the most obvious way. Yet, without fanfare, Playboy has expanded its reach [...]

September 9, 2008

Targeted Advertising: Is Mobile the Holy Grail?

There are those who think the subscription model for mobile content is the way to go. There are others who think content will largely be free and that advertising will be the predominant revenue model.
For those of us who are in the second camp, one of the compelling reasons that advertising is alluring on the [...]

September 4, 2008

Are you ready for a 3D mobile phone?

If the answer is, not quite, you’re in luck: they’re not quite ready.
But that doesn’t mean that you won’t soon be consuming 3D content on your mobile phone. So says, Chris Yewdall, president/CEO of Digital Dynamic Depth (DDD), whose 3D chips will be embedded in next-generation 3D-enabled TV sets from Samsung and a range of [...]

August 7, 2008

Anytime/Anywhere Content Lab

USC’s Entertainment Technology Center has a history of being in the right place at the right time. Created as a consortium funded by the major content, technology, CE and service companies, ETC’s stated goal is “to understand next-gen consumers and explore new opportunities for reaching them with digital content. ” ETC was the main player, [...]

June 19, 2008

You Suck at Photoshop Returns: Creators Talk about Interactive Storytelling

First, if you are one of the three people on the planet who hasn’t seen “You Suck at Photoshop,” go straight to My Damn Channel and check out the travails of Donnie Hoyle (and perhaps pick up a few tips on Photoshop while you’re at it).

YSAP’s co-creators Matt Bledsoe and Troy Hitch, who make up [...]

June 17, 2008

Millennials and Mobile: Generation Closes the Gap

Morley Winograd is the executive director of the Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM) at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. According to its website, CTM is a bridge between USC’s business school and the real world of the “networked digital industry.”

And he’s got an academic thing for the millennial generation–those [...]