Internet TV in 5 Years

7 January 2006 6 Comments

I was wondering what will Internet TV look like in 5 years. I found this article from a blog by Tom Wood on BrightBox. This sums up nicely what is going on in the Internet TV space.

“First let’s review what we’ve seen in the last month or so.

AOL puts old TV shows on the Internet — a deal with Warner Brothers is the beginning of getting any show at any time.
CBS and NBC offer current TV shows online – the service comes right after ABC’s shows are offered on iPod.
Apple and Disney put TV shows on the new Video iPod – the first major network to do this and a signal of the future.
MasteryTV launches 6 online video universities — adding entertainment to learning and learning to entertainment MasteryTV.com breaks into 5 more TV channels online
Cisco buys Scientific Atlanta – the network company now has a set-top box that will deliver TV over the IPTV protocol.
Google Video is the first to offer a TV show online — Chris Rock’s new show premieres online before it goes on air.
MTV launches 24/7 Internet TV network — in response to ManiaTV and other Internet TV sites targetting the 20-something market, MTV starts MTV Uber.
MTV buys iFilm.com — the independent film network is one of the most visited sites on the Internet
Video Without Boundaries inks exclusive deal with Brightbox — new venture brings Internet TV and education right to consumers’ TV sets.

So what does all this mean for the future? It’s going to be amazing. Here are some things you can look forward to:

Ubiquitous Content Within 5 Years– by 2010 you’ll be able to get any show or any video you can think of over the Internet. Really.
Internet TV on Your TV
A raft of devices will come that deliver video to the most watched device in the home to your TV (not your computer). Companies like TiVo will try and lock consumers in to their private video networks but the availability of so much video online will create the bigger win for boxes that open up the entire Internet.
Everyone is a director
Everyone with a camera will be uploading video to the net. The best
video will move to the top of their communities and be instantly
available.
Sponsored Video
New shows will be sponsored by single companies much like they were in the early days of TV. BMW has already done this with its “Hostage” series online and it’s likely Halmark will takes its TV shows online, too. More significantly video will become an important marketing method for smaller companies. Cooking shows by grocery stores and health shows by weight-loss companies will become the norm.
Improved Search
BlinkxTV.com has already improved upon Google by letting you search the content of the video in addition to the title. They do this by translating the spoken word into text and then putting it into their database. In 5 years every video will be searchable and rated much like Google rates websites now.
Intelligent recommendations
User interface will become the most important feature of your new TV with too much content to browse. In Japan you can already get recommendations for video based on your mood, your astrological sign or what other’s have watched.
HDTV online
Although the new IPTV standards will let you bring multiple hi-definition channels through private networks, breakthroughs in compression will likely allow you to do that on the public Internet.
Mult-View Events
Wth the Internet you’ll be able to watch sporting events, music events and more from any camera you want. You will be able to create your own “cut” of the show, too, making you the producer.
Video Communities
Communities like MasteryTV.com will aggregate and find content to help viewers get what they want. Community members will also produce their own video that will be rated and ranked by other viewers.
Video Anywhere
Takes all your videos from your DVR or Internet downloads to any TV or to the 3.5 inch screen on the unit. You’ll also see XM Radio and Sirius Satellite get into the mix when compression technologies improve.
Social Commerce TV
Products have always been recommended between friends and now companies will be able to more easily capitalize on the ease of recommendation by giving viewers reasons to recommend. Some of the reasons will be financial but recognition will remain the number one reason people tell people about great video.”

This future will have many surprises as we move toward a video world.

I can’t wait.

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6 Responses to “Internet TV in 5 Years”

TreeFrog 21 February 2006 at 10:10 pm #

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TreeFrog 21 February 2006 at 10:10 pm #

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Peace
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Iokio 10 March 2006 at 6:59 am #

In addition to all of the above, portable files acting as video “jukeboxes” will allow anyone to select clips(or sub-clips), comment on them, tag their selections and add each clip as a record in a portable jukebox files (see Omniscope). They can then use this as a personal playlist, send the jukebox to others, who can add or delete records/clips. Each records in the Omniscope jukebox links back to the clip or subclip on the content holder’s streaming servers, permissioned or P2P assisited. The portable jukebox will do for video what CD ripping, P2P and podcasting has done to audio CD albums. Everyone will be trading greatest hits, highlights, personal selections, etc. (imagine porn re-mixes to taste without all the dross) via RSS Omniscope enclosures that contain meta data, stills and selectable links to selected footage, which anyone can add to or delete from…a sort of a portable TV guide/video jukebox in a single multimedia file (like a PDF..but with 10 views and pictures/maps) that can be browsed offline, and post web services requests as well as link to video clips….
Iokio 10 March 2006 at 6:59 am #

In addition to all of the above, portable files acting as video “jukeboxes” will allow anyone to select clips(or sub-clips), comment on them, tag their selections and add each clip as a record in a portable jukebox files (see Omniscope). They can then use this as a personal playlist, send the jukebox to others, who can add or delete records/clips. Each records in the Omniscope jukebox links back to the clip or subclip on the content holder’s streaming servers, permissioned or P2P assisited. The portable jukebox will do for video what CD ripping, P2P and podcasting has done to audio CD albums. Everyone will be trading greatest hits, highlights, personal selections, etc. (imagine porn re-mixes to taste without all the dross) via RSS Omniscope enclosures that contain meta data, stills and selectable links to selected footage, which anyone can add to or delete from…a sort of a portable TV guide/video jukebox in a single multimedia file (like a PDF..but with 10 views and pictures/maps) that can be browsed offline, and post web services requests as well as link to video clips….