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OK, I'll hold off till something better comes along. Just weighing the pro's and con's.
If everyone agrees the wording is right I can do it.
You could post it under Business & Finance.
Should we Digg yesterdays news release ReelTime Reaches Redistribution Agreements and word the description so as to encourage a debate. Such as:
Read for yourself and decide. A ReelTime Rentals, Inc. news release implies that it is the sole online distributer of Sony Pictures Entertainment movies utilizing ReelTime's Intelligent Rapid Delivery System (IRDS). If any other website in the world wants to distribute Sony online movies they will have to go through Reeltime.
Hopefully, as people argue for or against what the news release really says, we can the add our comments to strengthen this digg and in the process educate new people to reeltime.com.
edited: of course I would only want to do this if the news release does indeed imply this deal with Sony.
We need reelkids.com (or a reeltimepg-13.com) to make its debut so these two different content types can be separated.
I won't be letting my kids access reeltime content on their own until then.
Thanks OldE5 for relaying that information. That gives us some more insight as to what is happening behind the scenes at reeltime.
Not the highest volume ever. The highest (up) volume ever was on 12/21/04 at 6,608,560. The highest (down) volume was on 11/12/04 at 3,915,196.
Reeltime did add two more Dempsey Media videos, but not sure they are the ones you listed.
The Scott Martin vs. Lake Tahoe has been up for a while. I sent an email to reeltime support last week asking them to check to see if the title was correct and change Lake Tahoe to Lake Toho(the lake that was actually fished). Todd replied back and said the support team would check on it.
I haven't watched Scott Martin vs. Brennan Bosley yet so I don't recall if it is a new one or not.
Thanks for the updated list on Reeltime.com.
Keep them coming!
I would hope that TV's with built in Ethernet jacks would have "connectivity to the www" to go anywhere on the internet.
I'm no techie, but I believe the TV would at least require an operating System and a browser to go to any site upon the web.
Someone needs to reword that last sentence
change - startups are working to offer a similar service that should prove at least as popular in this country.
to - startups like reeltime.com are working to offer a similar service that should prove more popular in this country.
The holy grail of Internet TV is closer to becoming a reality, and the players who are making it happen are not cable TV providers or telecoms
by Gary Morgenthaler and Herve Utheza
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2008/tc20080125_511072.htm?campaign_id=yhoo
The dream of watching both Internet video and regular TV programs on the same television is not as distant as many observers fear (BusinessWeek, 11/19/07). Despite the dust and confusion from the maneuverings of the major players in telecommunications—primarily content providers, cable and phone companies, television makers, and console producers—the outlook for Internet TV is getting clearer.
Within three years, it now appears likely that a full 40% of U.S. consumers will have some way of connecting their TV displays directly or indirectly to the Internet. Within five years, the percentage of such viewers will reach 70%, laying the foundation for a true mass market. Ironically, the prime beneficiaries of this shift won't be cable TV companies like Comcast (CMCS.A) or phone companies like AT&T (T)—even though they're the ones pouring billions of dollars into building the high-speed bandwidth infrastructure that's makes this upheaval so unstoppable.
Cable's traditional business model, a "take-what-we-offer-you" approach to customers, is being undermined by consumer demand for an à la carte, "give-me-what-I-want-when-I-want-it" model. Meanwhile, the new subscription television services from the phone companies—even AT&T's, which is being delivered with Internet technology—are largely "me-too" products that compete with cable on cost more than on features. Moreover, phone company TV will require too much time to roll out on a broad scale to capitalize on the melding of Internet video with television.
We see a strong analogy between the present era and 1993. Back then, the phone carriers were talking loudly about the inevitable coming of the "information superhighway," with the speedier pipes they planned to lay playing the central role by linking everyone and everything. Little did they realize that the superhighway was already arriving over their slow-poke pipes, courtesy of Netscape, whose novel Web browser was helping people make sense of the Internet and creating a whole new marketplace.
Progress Arrives from Unexpected Quarters
Similarly, the drivers of the today's Internet TV revolution are coming from a direction the carriers have failed to forsee. They are arriving by stealth in the form of three Trojan horses.
First, Internet connectivity is quietly appearing on most high-end TV sets with the addition of Ethernet jacks by manufacturers such as Matsushita, Sony (SNE), Samsung Hewlett-Packard (HWP), and Philips. Initial uses of these jacks, for viewing family photos and home videos stored on a personal computer, are effectively opening a pathway between the TV and the Internet via the PC's broadband connection. From there, new uses will emerge. Exciting new TV features typically migrate over time to lower-cost models, so we expect the number of homes with Ethernet jacks on their TVs to reach at least several million over the next few years.
The second Trojan horse is the emerging hybrid delivery model: free, over-the-air, digital broadcasts combined with on-demand delivery of premium content over a home broadband Internet connection. This model, pioneered in Britain by Freeview, connects TV and computer via a set-top box. It has won over nearly 13 million British households during the past three years, outpacing both satellite and cable providers. U.S.
startups are working to offer a similar service that should prove at least as popular in this country.
However, it is the third Trojan horse—the video game console—that promises to make the biggest inroad of all. The latest generation of consoles already offers consumers both Internet access and the ability to display digital content on their TVs. At today's rapid rate of adoption, we expect there will be 35 million TV-compatible gaming consoles in American homes by 2010, representing about one-third of all households. That is a market!
Our conversations with gaming providers indicate that they are beginning to grasp the broader opportunity of becoming the prime intermediaries between all consumers (not just game players), the Internet, and their TVs. Gaming, after all, connects players not only to online communities but to in-game advertising and all kinds of commercial and entertainment possibilities.
Consumer Customization Will Rule
Taken together, broad-scale Internet access, new hybrid delivery systems, and gaming platforms will provide the foundational tools needed for widespread Internet-TV connectivity. The resulting incentives for content aggregators, their distributors, and new entrants to help consumers connect the few remaining dots will be overwhelming. If not Comcast, then Google (GOOG). If not Verizon (VZ), then Apple (AAPL). Or maybe Sony, Nintendo (companyid=), or Microsoft (MSFT).
And consumers will find themselves in a position to do what they do best. Consumers have proven time and again that they are highly skilled at arbitraging one service opportunity against another on the basis of pricing, ease of use, and the richness of content. In a few years, the typical Internet TV consumer will pay for a core palette of 10 to 12 channels drawn from a far wider range of both commoditized and customized content, both broadcast and narrowcast. The mixes will be infinitely varied and highly personal: NFL football, commodity news, bass fishing, physics lectures, home decorating tips, Jimmy Cagney movies—whatever.
Meanwhile, traditional everything-for-everyone content aggregation—the proverbial 500 channels with nothing to watch, packaged in two or three service tiers—won't do the trick anymore. That business model—still pursued by cable providers and even a surprising number of Silicon Valley startups—will suffer from both a lack of customer enthusiasm and an ever-tighter squeeze on profit margins by Hollywood content providers.
Indeed, Hollywood is now blessed with a plethora of ways to reach the audience, from traditional distribution channels like cable to online video streams and downloads. And by pitting those channels against one another, content providers may gain enough negotiating leverage to boost their share of distribution revenues from 60% to as high as 85%.
That's the future as we see it. The barriers that have long inhibited Internet-based TV are beginning to crumble. The TV manufacturers will win; the gaming companies will win; the best new platforms blending personalized and branded content will win; Hollywood will win; and consumers will win. And, unless they find ways to adapt very quickly, telecoms and cable companies will lose. Messy? Absolutely. The process will, we predict, prove to be another example of long technological gestation followed by abrupt, even breathtaking, change. This is "creative destruction" at its best.
I just copied and pasted the previous list which still had your name on it. Wouldn't want to leave anyone off!
I noticed that Auntie was no longer on the list but was previously. Don't know what happened to that person, so Auntie if you are reading this put you name back up. We need all the digg'n we can get!
Got tired of counting the list over and over.
Digg Effort. Please paste your name below.
1-FloridaFH
2-rfedeleo
3-gauchoalum
4-kombinaat
5-keepitreel
6-reeltimeking
7-ANOX
8-FunManager
9-asus
10-rkor
11-asus' other PC (lol)
12-rkorti
13-Atoll
14-Smooth
15-MWM
16-MovieGuy (pmunch)
17-mrgoodtrade
18-desert man
19-Urbz
20-Burb1
21-Fliphoh
22-rock18
23-highflier
24-Reeltime Korea
25-jerseyboy73
26-truck king
Digg Effort. Please paste your name below.
Who has a Digg Account and who can we count on to attemp a coordinated Digg effort?
rfedeleo
gauchoalum
kombinaat
keepitreel
reeltimeking
ANOX
FunManager
asus
rkor
asus' other PC (lol)
rkorti
Atoll
Dugg!
Some great Q&A's in that TraderDaily exclusive
How about submitting an article to digg with a link to www.reeltime.com/reelcash.
That would be a harder one to bury.
Opps! You beat me to the link!
reeltime search link for Digg
http://digg.com/search?s=reeltime&submit=Search§ion=all&type=both&area=all&sort=score
Try changing your digg search to "all stories" instead the default "front page stories"
Probably so, but its worth a try.
I'm now signed up to Digg and submitted the news release "New Content Pact With Sony and ReelTime" since I could not find it already posted. It is posted under Entertainment - Movies. It was my first time there so I hope I did it right. :)
Barry Henthorn now has his thoughts posted on the reeltime blog.
http://blog.reeltime.com/
and list ways to help
"I urge you to participate as an active member and to ask how you can help. We are all in this together. We at ReelTime ask that you help us by doing at least one of the following, and then do at least one more, today."
1) Make a comment on any blog post.
2) Send the latest Sony press release to as many contacts as you can.
3) Create a Digg account at www.digg.com if you do not already have one. This will be helpful now and in the future. Then Digg any ReelTime articles.
4) Send the www.reeltime.com/reelcash link to as many contacts as you can and encourage them to do the same.
5) Download the Alexa toolbar at www.alexa.com and make www.reeltime.com your homepage.
6) Come back here to see what’s new and participate.
"...and they see for themselves that ReelTime delivers better than anyone else. They are not just coming to me; they are tracking me down, calling me, chasing me… to sign on the dotted line and ‘Get Reel’.
~Reel Bev"
http://blog.reeltime.com/index.php?blog=2&p=63&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#more63
No, stop Todd! We won't use the 'D' word again.
It's hard to believe we can get anyone now!
How about Paramount Pictures. I would like to see some Indiana Jones and Star Trek. Both are having new sequels for 2008.
Phones ringing off the hook wanting to partner up!
I'm in #95!
conference call still full. Thanks for the updates everyone!
Reeltime volume at a new 52 week high!!!
RLTR volume 304327 shares away from having the highest 52 week daily volume
I would hope in the future reeltime could stream the CC through the grid and store it for reference under the reeltime.com investor relations page.
I went to SNE through Yahoo!Finance and did not see any news release related to RLTR
Looks like the January 23, 2:12 pm ET re-release of the news wasn't mentioned under SNE news this time either.
Todd needs to throw us another biscuit to free up those vice grips. How bout another sony movie Todd?
Rate cut must be good news for retail stocks. They are up, so far.
I wonder if setting the clock back extends your time with reeltime? and how many people out there are now giving it a try!
Thanks for your input Smooth and asus.
I was just pondering what the future potential of reeltime could be. Just imagine the masses watching the Superbowl or the Olympics via reeltime.
Question - Can grid networks stream P2P live content of some major event? I have heard some ihubbers post in the past that it would be great if reeltime could stream a live event such as sporting event. How could this be done since the grids advantage lies with storing blocks of data on different computers. This storing of data would require one to watch something that has been archived and not seen live.
LOL I'd like to see that version!!