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wyldchild37 writes: "Business 2.0 has an article on an interesting new technology - TV That Works Like the Web. A new startup wants to make all television content archived, indexed, and searchable."
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A new startup wants to make all television content archived, indexed, and searchable.
Won't happen. This could be the cynical conspiracy theorist in me, but do you really think the *media* powers that be will allow even more technology that enables the bypassing of their lifeblood - commercials? Technology that gives consumers MORE control? Media giants have spent the last 2 dozen years bringing the control of what and when you watch to a fine art. Not to mention all the possible copyright and trademark debacles waiting to happen with all lawyers freed up from the death of napster, just waiting for someone to start to bring episode trading to the public's attention.
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This is two-fold. First off, I want Satelite or digital cable that changes channels as fast as conventional cable (meaning *instantly*).
Second part: I want a device that eliminates the stupid and annoying station logos. Contrary to popular belief, many people actually know what damn channel they are watching. Take the TNG episodes running on TNN....how many people need to be reminded that they are watching Star Trek, WHILE they are WATCHING it?
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I wonder who gets first dibs on trying to slap on a copyright infringement suit of some sort on this idea? I know it isn't really the same as anything, but I'm sure that some company can claim a copyright on it somehow.
I also wonder how long it takes before someone figures out how to set up a computer based version of the TV so you can stream things to your comp. That might be a good project to start on.
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Serachable TV would be great!
IBM used to have a technology that would allow you to search graphics, call the Ultimedia extentions to DB2. This would allow you to look for, say a red ball beside a tree...and it would return all the images that have a red ball beside a tree...phenomenal tech, but I don't think it was much used. Maybe ths is an extension to that tech, but idexes all the keyframes of show, then putting it into a huge database...
I would be nice to be able to say "find all Star Trek episodes that show pictures of older ships named enterprise"...
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Why not the computer then? The TV limits what people can do necessarily. I can't really imagine anyone wanting a keyboard for their TV any more than I can imagine someone buying one for their gamecube. Note that these peripherals don't sell well on systems like video game consoles that are inherently interactive. There's no way someone is going to use one on a machine that is naturally the exact opposite of interactive.
Producers have spent decades making TV the exact opposite of interactive, and they've done an admirable job of it. I know of no better way to kill your mind than TV, even drugs don't do the job as well or as easily. Then they tried to take this philosophy to the internet with Push technology. Remember when that was the thing? How often do you hear about those guys now? The same way push failed for the internet, interactive TV will fail because it's the antithesis of what people know and love about television. It's not a bad idea, it's just not going to work
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They had Clinton's "Monica" testimony indexed so you can search for words (think "cigar") and get to the portion of the video that mentions the words.
Since most television is closed-captions these days, it's not hard to get searchable text that corresponds to video, once the video is put on some random-access storage medium.
I really don't think there are any new breakthroughs here; it's just that storage got dirt cheap, video codecs got faster, making it more practical.
Ok, I've got well over three hundred channels, a friend of mine has over eight hundred, all of these are constantly putting out new content simultaneously.
Technically, it's already stored... Even the livest of live TV eventually goes into the archives at every TV stattion in the world. All that needs to be done is turn those tape archives into digital archives and connect them together.
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how long will it be before any of these get shut down by the RIAA and DMCA?
using these P2P networks to get tv material will become more controversial as these bastard will start arguing over copyright laws..again.
if the do create a new network; id be pissed if i had to pay more for using it or be forced to use it.
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