San Francisco: TVOT 2012-2016 Media Mentions

"TiVo Inc. is joining with the PayPal payment service to offer an on-the-spot way for television viewers to buy products featured in interactive advertisements. The digital-video-recorder company is working with advertisers and agencies to develop PayPal-enabled advertisements, which are expected to begin airing during the fall 2012 television season. The advertisements allow TiVo users to buy products through interactive ads. The purchases then ..."

"Earlier this week at the "TV of Tomorrow Show" in San Francisco, interactive TV developer Strategy & Technology (S&T) unveiled a new solution for the synchronization of "second screen" application content with broadcast video..."

"An informative, packed first day at The TV of Tomorrow Show 2012 in San Francisco where, my predilection for t-commerce aside, TV shopping was truly front and center.  Here are the highlights that landed in my mental shopping cart..."

"I better start saving up my money because this fall I will be able to buy items right off my TV. This announcement came through this morning at the TV of Tomorrow conference in San Francisco where EBay's PayPal payment service stated that it is partnering with Comcast and set-top box maker to let television viewers donate money and buy goods with a single click of their remote..."

"Comcast CTO Tony Werner is among speakers at The TV of Tomorrow Show this week in San Francisco. The event, which kicks off Tuesday, will also feature Roku CEO Anthony Wood, zeebox CTO Anthony Rose and executives from CableLabs, AT&T, Turner Broadcasting, Google TV, Rovi and several other companies..."

"You can't help but feel bad for all the people who have a financial stake in the Blu-ray Disc medium. When it first launched, it had to engage in a battle to the death with rival format HD DVD. And then, just as its acceptance started to become widespread, the digital distribution market just exploded right in its face. Now, an ambitious player in that digital market sees a slow death for Blu-ray..."

"I better start saving up my money because this fall I will be able to buy items right off my TV. This announcement came through this morning at the TV of Tomorrow conference in San Francisco where EBay's PayPal payment service stated that it is partnering with Comcast and set-top box maker to let television viewers donate money and buy goods with a single click of their remote..."

"These days there's a lot of buzz about Apple, Google and Microsoft in the TV space. But while they are all crawling the carpets of TV disruption, Anthony Wood's product, Roku, is now ten years old. Here/s another number: Roku means "six" as in the sixth company Wood has started. None of them is trivial. Look at Wood's bio page..."

"The second day of TVOT in San Francisco was as informative as the first. Plus I had a chance to check out the many companies that had set displays. Here are my highlights along with a video demo. What Viewers Want Per ZeeBox: In his conversation with Tracy Swedlow, Anthony Rose, UK based ZeeBox co-founder..."

"The CEO of Roku Anthony Wood predicts that Blu-ray is not only on the way out, but that in four year's time, hardly anyone will using the format. The Roku player is currently one of the hottest video streaming set-top boxes around, with custom tailored support for popular services such as Netflix and Hulu, but more importantly..."

"I am a full-fledged consumer of all things media. If there was an Olympic event to see who can consume the most media and retain it, I would definitely bring home gold. On occasion Netflix has even toggled my service because I was consuming at a rate they couldn't place on their balance sheet without upsetting board members..."

"I was in San Francisco this week speaking at and attending the TV of Tomorrow Show  As I typically do, I was scheduled to take the red eye home on Wednesday night.  I had a few hours between the end of the conference and my flight so after grabbing dinner at Anchor and Hope, I walked to AT&T Park to watch a few innings..."

"Would you like to receive coupons on your smartphone's digital wallet that are related to the products you are viewing on your TV set? Or, forget the smartphone - how about buying products directly through your television using the remote control? PayPal announced it is working with television service providers to help power "television commerce," aka tcommerce... "

"Comcast  said Tuesday that it is working with PayPal to explore how it may be able offer its subscribers t-commerce capabilities. TiVo also announced an agreement with PayPal which will let viewers with its DVRs use their remote controls to buy products advertised on TV, beginning this fall..."

"Comcast has agreed to work with PayPal to explore enabling new forms of payment on TV and other devices as an extension of the MSO's advertising business, chief technology officer Tony Werner announced at the TV of Tomorrow conference in San Francisco..."

"Nokia is still taking its lumps in earnings, but CEO Stephen Elop has an idea as to how the troubled phone giant can carve out its slice of the smartphone market: like a real estate agent, it's all about location, location, location. As he outlined in the company's fiscal results call, the aim is to make Nokia the "where?" company"

"Video - SAN FRANCISCO: Media companies hold conference to look at future of TV"

"The TV of Tomorrow (TVOT) show hit New York City today for a one-day intensive event, as compared to the multi-day TVOT events held in San Francisco, California. The show is run by Interactive TV Today, and brings together TV and video executives eager to know how television will change in the interactive age."

" The future of the television is the iPad. That was the overwhelming message at the TV of Tomorrow conference in New York, which saw executives and decision makers from across the television industry gather for a lively day of discussion and debate about the state and direction of their business. And almost all of that discussion revolved around the iPad, which has become interchangeably known as the "second screen." Apple may call its TV efforts a "hobby," but the TV industry is already making huge bets on iOS. Tablet users were a dominant theme of the conference, which featured sessions titled "Measuring the Multiplatform Viewer" and "Second-Screen Content: Have We Created A Monster?" Barry Frey, a former Cablevision executive, opened a panel called "TV's New Gateway" by asking "How many of you are taking notes on the second screen?" A room full of suits waved their iPads in the air."

"Zeebox, the second screen app,  which is being widely deployed in the U.S. by NBC Universal, FOX and HBO, will launch a "synched ad" platform in January, allowing marketers the ability to serve ads into the Zeebox app which are associated, in real-time, with the commercials on the television, says  Anthony Rose, co-founder and CTO of the London-based company.  The make this happen, Zeebox has created a sort of "Google search engine equivalent but for live television," he explains in this interview with Beet.TV"

"Television has evolved from a live form of entertainment to one with live, time-shifting, on demand and streaming options. San Francisco-based Dijit has created a digital TV guide app called NextGuide to help viewers keep up with television content discovery across live TV, streaming and more.We spoke with Jeremy Toeman, CEO of Digit, at the TV of Tomorrow conference in Manhattan about the new app."

"NEW YORK -- Social TV services Viggle and GetGlue are working on plans to expand services across platforms in the new year, says Kyle Brink, VP Product at Viggle during an interview with Beet.TV at the TV of Tomorrow show in New York this month. We caught up with him for an update on the Viggle service as well as the latest on the pending merger of the two companies.Viggle's service operates as a TV loyalty program, while GetGlue's focus has been in social TV apps. "We came out on mobile first...GetGlue comes from the Web and tablet, and eventually we'll have two great products across a variety of platforms. Between Get Glue and Viggle we have the largest audience in the space," Brink tells Beet.TV."

"Interactive features in digital video ads should grow tremendously in the next year, based on the expontential rise in ad campaigns using them over the last several months, says Zvika Netter, CEO and co-founder of Innovid, a digital video and ad serving technology company, during an interview with Beet.TV."

"North American connected TV penetration is "going nowhere" at the moment, Paul Gray, DisplaySearch director of TV electronics research, told the TV of Tomorrow Show in New York. Little is being done to drive penetration, aside from Black Friday promotions, he said. "

"For my first column of the New Year, I always like to look back in order to look ahead. What do media executives – those on the front lines - see as the future of television? This year, instead of going through some of my past interviews, I have compiled a sizzle reel of predictions from participants at the TV of Tomorrow conference held in December. You can view the entire video here ..."

"Comcast is looking to test a new platform for the distribution of online videos through its new X1 cable set-top boxes by the end of the year, the company’s SVP of Video Matt Strauss confirmed during an interview at the sidelines of the TV of Tomorrow Show this week."

"Dish wants to make inroads with people who are fed up with traditional pay TV with its upcoming internet-based TV service, said the company’s GM of Interactive and Advanced TV Adam Lowy at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco Wednesday. “Cord cutters, cord nevers and what we call cord haters” will be the target audience of the new service, said Lowy."

"Speaking at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco Wednesday, Matt Strauss, senior VP of video for Comcast, told GigaOM that the pay TV company is looking to test the new platform by the end of the year. As explained by Strauss, Comcast isn't looking for cute cats, bored teenagers and other works by amateur video makers, but rather professionally produced content--the kind YouTube itself has migrated to during the past two years."

"Showtime sees smart TV’s as powerful platform for immersive, interactive experiences, explains David Preisman, VP for Interactive Television at the premium cable network. In this interview with Beet.TV, he speaks about the company’s Sho Synch app and its growing popularity. The app is available on LG sets. We spoke with him at the TV of Tomorrow Conference where he was a speaker."

"The number of programmers to deliver their live streams will double to 75 this year, says Matthew Strauss, GM for Video Services at Comcast in this interview with Beet.TV. We interviewed him this week at the TV of Tomorrow conference."

"The big growth of ”TV Everywhere,” meaning the authenticated viewing of TV programming on digital devices by cable and satellite consumers, is creating expanded video viewing and new opportunities for advertisers, says Beet commentator Ashley J. Swartz, in this wrap-up of the TV of Tomorrow conference in San Francisco."

"CNN is expanding its new ‘CNN X’ product – a hybrid offering of live TV and personalized digital content to cable and satellite subscribers with new distribution platforms. CNN X, which is available on iPad, has just launched on the Web and will soon be available on DiretTV set-top boxes, explains K.C. Estenson, GM of Digital for CNN in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with him yesterday at the TV of Tomorrow conference."

"The X1 cable box from Comcast will be become increasingly “immersive” with a number of new features including more Apps, Web videos, data and social media over the next few months, explains Matthew Strauss, SVP and GM for Video Services, in this interview with Beet.TV. […]We spoke with him at the TV of Tomorrow conference yesterday in San Francisco."

"Mobile devices, led by the Apple operating system, are fueling the spread of TV Everywhere, says Tamara Gaffney, Principal Analyst with Adobe Digital Index in this video interview. "The iOS app has surpassed the browser as the most common access point for TV Everywhere," she says, sharing the details of a just-released study Adobe conducted that analyzes TV Everywhere usage. […]Gaffney presented her finding today in San Francisco where she was a speaker at the TV of Tomorrow show."

"I glimpsed the future of pay-TV at the TV of Tomorrow (TVOT) show in San Francisco today. That future sees the cable channels taking charge of the experience of their content, while the operators continue to provide the consolidated view of it all. Matt Strauss, SVP and GM of Video Services at Comcast, demonstrated a new version of the company’s popular X1 TV service. He showed how the guide has really become 7 different guides in one."

"TVOT, one of the most forward thinking conferences in our industry, focused on the concept of time for this year’s New York City event. In past years, TVOT has explored how technologies such as VR would change how we use TV, how the rollout of apps and TVE would impact how we access content and how big and small data would impact how we measure everything...."

"While OTT video streaming can beat televisions resolution today, it cannot match the reliability and quality of delivery. Will it ever get there? Yes we can, according to four streaming video experts.At the TV of Tomorrow Show in New York last week, I sat down with a group of video quality experts to discuss how online video providers should approach quality delivery online. It soon became apparent that there are still big challenges with the basics, like video start time, and buffering. This led me to ask the panelist: “Can we ever reach or better traditional televisions reliability and quality of delivery online?”Click above for the entire article...."