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a look at the creative and technical worlds of immersive storytelling
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How the BBC is building the future of TV by blowing it up

How the BBC is building the future of TV by blowing it up | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
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Martin Bryant:  "While audiences around the world know the UK’s BBC best for its hit TV shows like Top Gear and Doctor Who, it has been a key force in technological advances since since it first started broadcasting almost a century ago" ....

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Martin Bryant:  "While audiences around the world know the UK’s BBC best for its hit TV shows like Top Gear and Doctor Who, it has been a key force in technological advances since since it first started broadcasting almost a century ago" ....

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Martin Bryant:  "While audiences around the world know the UK’s BBC best for its hit TV shows like Top Gear and Doctor Who, it has been a key force in technological advances since since it first started broadcasting almost a century ago" ....

มานะ ตรีรยาภิวัฒน์'s curator insight, March 24, 2016 3:56 AM

 

Martin Bryant:  "While audiences around the world know the UK’s BBC best for its hit TV shows like Top Gear and Doctor Who, it has been a key force in technological advances since since it first started broadcasting almost a century ago" ....

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Tech up your Format: 15 MIPFormats Commandments

Tech up your Format: 15 MIPFormats Commandments | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

"A well-chosen diversity of tech journalists and techies each imparted their own “10 Tech Commandments” to MIPFormats today, as C21Media’s David Jenkinson moderated. From the resulting 30, we extracted 15 that captured shared ideas or yielded new paths."

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The BBC is experimenting with Perceptive Media, and it could transform TV forever

The BBC is experimenting with Perceptive Media, and it could transform TV forever | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Remember when Intel turned your life into a museum exhibition using your Facebook data? Or when Google put your place of birth into Arcade Fire’s The Wilderness Downtown video?

 

[Can't say I'm a big fan of this concept ... I prefer the idea of social TV where the viewer is active and, more directly, in control of their experience.]

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Smart TVs: How Do They Work?

Smart TVs: How Do They Work? | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Just what exactly is it that makes a Smart TV, well…smart?

 

[You'll want to know ... because their arrival, to living rooms everywhere, is imminent.]

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A Sneak Peek At The TVs Of The Future

A Sneak Peek At The TVs Of The Future | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Each year begins for technologists and geeks with the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas for CES. It's easy to write off this massive technology trade show as an outdated, overrated, and overhyped gizmo-fest.
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The Future of 'Television'

The Future of 'Television' | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
My prediction: You will be able to buy television by the channel. You will be able to watch it live, or watch it from the cloud using live streaming for any channel any program any time slot over the last 30 days.
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Eurovision maker: 3D won't catch on

Eurovision maker: 3D won't catch on | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
The head of the European Broadcasting Union has said that members ‘are not going to add 3D to their troubles’...
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It's Official: Xbox 360 Gets Television

It's Official: Xbox 360 Gets Television | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Following weeks of rumors and speculation, Microsoft today confirmed that they have teamed up with 40 TV and entertainment providers to bring shows and live television to Xbox Live.
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TV, TiVo, OTT: How television-watching has evolved

TV, TiVo, OTT: How television-watching has evolved | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
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Elisha Hartwig:  "A timeline of the technology behind how we watch television."

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One Screen To Rule Them All

One Screen To Rule Them All | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
While hosting this year’s Academy Awards, Billy Crystal cracked, “I prefer the big screen… which is my iPad.”


DRC:  A look at how tablets are changing the way we view traditional television.

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TV looks to new era of interactive game shows to lure the Facebook generation

TV looks to new era of interactive game shows to lure the Facebook generation | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
The Million Pound Drop and The Bank Job are proving a bit hit with internet audiences, but it is the data collected from online players which is making advertisers take notice...

 

[A look at how British TV is using new technology to create interactive shows that successfully compete with the "myriad distractions of social networking sites, computer games and even food and drink".]

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Smart TVs: The next tech war is in the living room

Smart TVs: The next tech war is in the living room | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Searching for the next frontier of tech? Look no further than your TV.
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Knowing your audience… And their thoughts

Knowing your audience… And their thoughts | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

What if mind-reading, and other similarly advanced technology, was the best way to tailor TV to viewers' desires? Media City Finland's Staffans investigates...

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Multiple Intelligences: What Makes a Smart TV Smart?

Multiple Intelligences: What Makes a Smart TV Smart? | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
I have a theory about smart TVs. We still don’t really know what makes them “smart.”
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Disney's Anne Sweeney says digital has 'unleashed' TV, not disrupted it

Disney's Anne Sweeney says digital has 'unleashed' TV, not disrupted it | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Producers and broadcasters should embrace the opportunities provided by tablets, smartphones and social media as a chance to "unleash" television, according to Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney-ABC Television Group.
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Downton Abbey viewers crash ITV Player

Downton Abbey viewers crash ITV Player | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
ITV Player, the commercial broadcaster’s internet catch up service, crashed for several hours last night, as thousands of people tried to watch Downton Abbey online.
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