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CBS chief Les Moonves took the stage at CES to make it clear that his network is “doing just about everything we can to see what’s going to work now and in the future,” even declaring an end to new media (”we’re just media,” he said.) While many of his guest speakers were already reaffirming existing relationships (Chad Hurley with YouTube and Philip Rosendale with Second Life), he brought up Sling Media CEO Blake Kirkorian to demonstrate a new feature called “Clip + Sling.” If you’re watching TV on your laptop, you can grab a clip of the a video and email it to a friend (it’s hosted on a Sling Media site). For each clip sent, CBS gets a fee, although Moonves didn’t disclose a number. CBS is beta testing the service, which will be released sometime in the second quarter (watch a video demo). One other thing: Moonves said CBS is launching a new initiative with YouTube called “15 Seconds” that encourages users to send in inspirational messages of which the best will air on the network during the Super Bowl. Press release after the pic…
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Apple just posted the webcast as well as a separate clip of the iPhone demo.
January 9th, 2007
A little prediction. Up until now, watching video on your cell phone or your 5G video iPod has been a nice little extra, but not something we do very often. In fact, I watch more iTunes video on my TV or PC than I watch on my iPod. Cell phones have very poor video quality due to deep compression and tiny, crappy screens. And we don’t really carry our 5G iPods around with us. The new iPhone solves these problems, and I believe it will bring mobile video to the masses, from a specialty to an addiction. Just about everyone already has an iTunes account, and we’ve already downloaded video. But now it will be with us, at all times, just a button push away. It’s pricey, at $499, but when faced with buying a new iPod and a new smart phone, it’s actually less expensive. So over time, I believe the iPhone will gain some serious market share, and it will do more to advance mobile video than Verizon’s new V-CAST Mobile TV service and others to follow. Yes, it can’t handle live video (yet), it’s just for Cingular (for now) and it lives in the closed iTunes loop, but it’s leaps and bounds ahead of its mobile video competition in quality and functionality.
MediaPost: iPhone expected to spur mobile marketing
January 9th, 2007
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Apple punishes early adopters. There’s just no way around it. I am as slavish a Machead as they come. I run out and buy their new gear. I’m on my third iPod, and that’s out of five generations of them. I buy the latest iLife update, even if it adds two GarageBand sound effects and an extra iDVD template that I won’t use anyway. But Apple has trained me now: if I buy the first version of a new product, I will regret it. I have the first iPod – look at the battery problems that had, and how reluctant Apple was to address them (halfheartedly as they did). Early adopters should be rewarded – we pay the most and help establish the market for a product, after all. We should get upgrade discounts or trade-in rebates or something. Anything besides regret. Apple has a deliberate strategy – make no future product announcements so you won’t cannibalize your own sales. That’s fine. But I’ve learned from that strategy, too. There will be a better iPhone soon enough. I can wait.
January 9th, 2007
Wow! It’s a video iPod, cell phone and a “breakthrough internet communications device” all in a single device, with just one button. The 3.5-inch display has “multi-touch,” an innovative screen that ignores unintended touching and multi-finger touches. Flip it on its side and watch a TV show or movie on the highest resolution screen Apple has built to date. It’s also “thinner than any smart phone,” says Steve Jobs, who just unveiled the much-anticipated device at Macworld Expo moments ago. The iPhone has a 2 megapixel camera, as well. “(But) the killer app is making calls!” Jobs said. The phone has “visual voice mail” so you can scroll and click-to-play your messages, as well as the ability to hold multiple SMS (texting) conversations. It’s WiFi and EDGE compatible, running a Safari Browser on Apple’s OS X. It connects with any POP3 or IMAP3 email, and it’s push email, just like Blackberry. Wow, we’ll wait for a hands-on test, but so far this looks revolutionary (although does it record video?) “This is a day I’ve been looking forward to for two and a half years,” Jobs said. More pictures and live blog with details here.
Photo via Engadget. More here.
January 9th, 2007
Formerly known as iTV, Apple TV is a nifty new wireless device that merges video, music and photos from multiple PCs to your television. It handles high-definition video (720p) and has a 40 gig hard drive built in. It will go on sale for $299 in February. The user interface (below showing movies from iTunes) looks downright snazzy…
Photo via Engadget, where you can see many more screen shots.
January 9th, 2007
