TV amateurs threaten pros
p2pnet.net News:- In much the same way the traditional print press is desperately trying to work out how to exploit blogging, “the TV industry is frantically trying to figure out how to combine broadcasts, Internet movies and home videos into one package,” says Reuters.
If you have a good story to tell, “people will watch you,” the story has Andre Mika, director for current programming and production at Time Warner’s Internet business AOL, saying.
“Even if the budget is just you and a little camera,” Mika said, “pointing to the popularity of the new North American television channel Current TV which only broadcasts programmes that were created by viewers”.
With that in mind, “French communications equipment maker Alcatel, working with Microsoft, showed at the IBC broadcasting convention in Amsterdam how it has integrated personal video channels into its Internet television system, bedded between the usual national, news and sports TV channels,” says Reuters.
“Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) is a major topic at IBC, because it enables telecoms operators to become TV distributors by sending programmes over their broadband Internet connections. Close to 50 million households are forecast to have IPTV by 2010, according to market research group Gartner.
“It now emerges that IPTV systems, which are slowly being introduced in countries around the world, are also well placed to distribute videos that are shared on the Web.”
Many online citizen journalists are already running rings around mainscream scribes, presenting expert and accurate reports, and, “Amateur TV producers make better programmes than many people may think, and there is huge interest in their shows,” Mika is quoted as saying.
Also See:
Reuters – Broadcasting rocked as TV viewers become producers, September 8, 2006
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