The British web portal SeeSaw on which it's possible to look channels from various TV channels, has allowed to choose adv to the users.
Your Advertising, the Sir!
As Techradar writes, before viewing TV on the screen of the user there is a list from three advertising company, the visitor of a website should choose one of them. Such system is called Ad Selector.
In SeeSaw underline that Ad Selector it's favourable both to advertisers, and users. Because of such format advertisers are interested in creating high level TV adv. SeeSaw underline that the Ad Selector it's favourable both to advertisers, and users. Because of such format advertisers are interested in creating high level TV adv.
Web portal SeeSaw is shown in a Internet of the program and transfer of English-speaking TV channels. A part from them it's possible to look free of charge, but for a part is necessary to pay. On a website it's underlined that all content is laid out lawfully.
The senate of France has approved introduction of the tax to online advertising since 2011. The new law on the taxation will come into force, if it will be approved also by the parliament lower chamber.
The Google Tax
It's supposed that the rate of the new tax will make 1%. According to the experts, the annual profit on it will reach 20 million euro. As marks the France-Presse Agency, the given innovation the French mass-media already have christened «the tax on Google».
Thus, as marks web portal TechEye, against the tax local advertisers have already acted. In their opinion, it will affect national economy because will be reduced the volume of advertising of the French companies, and at the same time and their sales.
In 2008 the president of France Nicolas Sarkozy has suggested to impose taxes on access to the Internet and use of mobile phones. Incomes of taxes, according to the head of the state, should help for the state television to get rid of advertising.
In September of this year it became known that the French authorities have prolonged an advertising interdiction for evening and night on the state television channels. Introduction of an interdiction for translation of commercials became a part of the program of Nicolas Sarkozy on reforming of the French public television. As he said, it should become same «qualitative, as BBC».
Sony Corp. announced musical service «Music Unlimited», informs CNET News. Is supposed, that with «Music Unlimited» electronic devices will get access to online musical libraries.
«Qriocity + Music Unlimited»
Listening will be carried out in a real mode though users will have a possibility of synchronisation of devices with library. «Music Unlimited» becomes a part of already started service «Qriocity».
At present it's not known, what gadgets will co-operate with «Music Unlimited». TVs Sony, Blu-ray players, game consoles PlayStation 3 and PC computers are mentioned. In the future, «Music Unlimited» will be accessible on a number of portable devices.
Music service which has been announced practically simultaneously with similar television service from Apple, will be started by the end of year. Cost of using «Music Unlimited» is not informed.
The Japanese company Panasonic has presented the new 3D-TVs equipped with hard disks and Blu-ray.
Future TV Today
Family of RT2B includes two models of plasma TVs with diagonals of 42 and 46 inches. Devices can record telecasts as on the hard disk (500Gb), also and on optical Blu-ray disk.
TVs will show Full HD permission (1080p), HDMI and Ethernet port. On assurance of the manufacturer, these TVs first-ever can reproduce 3D-video which have been recorded on Blu-ray.3D-TVs will go on sale in the end of August (only in Japan). The price, and also a date started of sales of new TVs in other countries yet are not called.
Panasonic counts, that the total number of sold TVs will make 15 thousand TVs/month. For comparison, in Europe since January to June has been sold 25 thousand 3D-TVs.
Google Corp. has presented Google TV — a platform allowing televiewers to look through videoclips on YouTube and other web sites, and also to visit any web pages by means of browser Google Chrome.
TV Boom
Google TV allows to search for the necessary documental films, movies and TV programs. Search is made both on an Internet content, and on satellite TV. Presumably, search can be entered by means of a remote control or the appendix on the smart phone of the user.
Google + Sony + Logitech = TV of 21th century
For Google TV will technical support from some new TVs. Partners Google in the television project are Sony and Logitech. The first devices with support Google TV will appear on sale in the USA in the autumn of 2010.
The owner of channel Comedy Central company Viacom has promised to condemn bloggers which will place without the permission in the Internet episodes of their comic shows. The company will toughen the control over intellectual property after rupture of relations with Hulu, writes THR.
The annoying reticence
Viacom to which belongs Comedy Central, could not agree with Hulu about advertising deductions for display of comic shows "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report", it is informed in blog The NY Times. In this connection vice-president Hulu Andy Forssell has promised since March, 10th to stop show channel Comedy Central display. Thus show episodes, and also full archive of transfers will be still accessible on their official sites.
Internet users distinguish essential distinctions of on-line players Hulu and Comedy Central. So, bloggers can place any fragment which has liked them of show by means of player Hulu with itself in a blog. Portal Comedy Central offers users of the a little preliminary selected fragments of each episode of show. Thus representative Viacom has declared, that the company will pursue bloggers which will continue to spread after March, 9th in the Network not authorised Viacom show fragments.
Viacom VS Bloggers
The situation with illegal placing of fragments is ambiguous as in "The Daily Show" on a regular basis fragments from an aether of other channels are used, in particular CNN and Fox News. And these fragments are used on the lawful bases thanks to a principle "fair use" which extends on news channels. However Viacom opposes that Internet sites and bloggers earned on advertising on the resources, using their comic content.
Hulu is free service of viewing of video, accessible to inhabitants of the USA. Hulu belongs to owners of popular channels NBC, Fox and ABC and is a legal platform for display of episodes of television shows and films. The portal receives a content directly from legal owners and shares with them a part of incomes of advertising placing. Hulu has been officially started in March, 2008, and content Comedy Central has appeared on Hulu after three months.
By data comScore number of visitors of portal Hulu is made 44 million by person in a month. According to The NY Times, legal owners of a content usually receive from 50 to 70 percent of advertising gain Hulu. The portal takes away the rest to itself.
Three from four owners PlayStation 3 are ready to refuse sex for the sake of a new computer game. To such conclusion the researchers who have interrogated 1130 owners PS3 have come, informs The Register.
Computer games it is more pleasant than sex
By results of interrogation also it was found out, that an order of 30% of British users PlayStation 3 would prefer to spend night behind game with a prefix, than to lay down in bed with the partner. On fairly arising question "why?" Many of respondents have answered, that computer games — much more cheerful and pleasant pastime, than sex.
Besides, owners of prefixes prefer games in the questions, concerning that, as well as on what to spend money. 41% interrogated have declared, that in case to them would give 50 pounds sterling, they would spend for a computer game, and their sex does not interest at all, it is better to look free porn.
Keith Bakker, the director of the Amsterdam clinic specialising on treatment of game dependence, for practice couple of years was convinced that 90% of patients actually are not sick. More often they suffer from impracticality by a life and a society, cannot find contact to close people, therefore prefer to hide from problems and disorder in the virtual worlds.
By the way, idea of refusal of healthy relations with an opposite sex for the sake of games and technics novelties has had time to make the way in show business. Last year Playboy TV has started show Gadget or the Girl by which rules participants-men should make a choice between prospect of dialogue with the nice girl and possibility to receive as a gift a new computer game. "You think, what amateur porn it is much more pleasant, than real sex? Learn, what it — to be rejected because of a MP3-player!", — so announced the project in a press.