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Real's Glaser: Digital Media Past The PC Rob Glaser, the CEO of RealNetworks, tells AO's Tony Perkins about the future of digital media, and offers entrepreneurs insights on avoiding competetion with monopolies, and on how building bona fide revenue sources can help startups survive. Rob Glaser [RealNetworks] | POSTED: 11.07.04 @21:25 Glaser: We recently announced a product that's the first video-on-demand service for the Internet, it's called Starz Ticket on Real Movies or the acronym STORM. The reason it's such a long name is that it is a partnership with Starz Encore, one of the leading video subscription services—Starz, HBO and Showtime are the three big ones in the U.S. What we were able to put together with them is for the first time, mainstream commercial movies are available on an on-demand model for a flat subscription fee. For $12.95 a month, subscribers get access to a library of 100 movies. The library product includes everything thing from old Batman to top picks hits like Chicago, mainline Hollywood movies that are post their theatrical release but are still not available on broadcast television or even basic cable television. Very valuable movies in terms of where they are in the distribution chain. What Starz did that was very smart is that when they got the subscription right, they also got the Internet right as part of an integrated service. We built an application with them that sits inside the Real Player that allows consumers to pick a movie they want and either do scheduled or live downloads. It requires a good broadband connection, and the quality of what we can deliver is close to DVD quality, better than broadcast quality. In the consumer tests we've done, consumers love it. The target scenario is a consumer has a notebook computer typically and downloads a couple of movies. The exciting thing about the model is that the consumer can watch as many movies as they want during the month of their availability, so it is an all-you-can-eat model. And as we've seen it in all kinds of media models, all-you-can-eat models are very successful and very compelling.   3:38:40 PM

Real's Glaser: Digital Media Past The PC. Glaser: We recently announced a product that's the first video-on-demand service for the Internet, it's called Starz Ticket on Real Movies or the acronym STORM. The reason it's such a long name is that it is a partnership with Starz Encore, one of the leading video subscription services¡XStarz, HBO and Showtime are the three big ones in the U.S. What we were able to... [AlwaysOn Network] 3:36:14 PM

蕃薯藤-新聞-美國家半導體推信息防護芯片 IBM首家應用 ICT新聞網 2004-11-08 11:00 【賽迪網訊】2004年11月8日港台媒體消息，美國國家半導體公司發布兩款SafeKeeper Trusted I/O 的信息系統防護芯片。這兩款芯片可直接設計在桌上型及筆記本型電腦的主機板上，確保黑客及電腦病毒遠離，提供更安全的系統環境。 旅展門票獨家下載 美國國家半導體表示，Trusted I/O芯片內含可信賴平台模組、SuperI/O及嵌入式軟件，支援可靠運算組織 (TCG)所規定的業界標准防護功能。這款系統安全芯片TPM模組屬於微控制器，可為個人電腦及其他系統安全地保存密碼、數字憑証及加密，並能為電腦軟件 如基本輸入輸出系統、作業系統及應用程式提供保護，避免被非法入侵或惡意攻擊。 美國國家半導體指出，相對於獨立的軟件系統，硬體的解決方案可為運算系統提供一個更為嚴密的基礎架構。這個基礎架構可以保護系統儲存的加密或敏感資料，並 向其他電腦系統提供有關的認証資料。此外，該基礎架構也為系統建立一個可靠的作業方式，確保網絡的作業環境更為安全可靠。IBM是全球首家採用這種電腦防 護技術的廠商，並已將此芯片用於多款桌上型電腦產品中。（n106） 1:26:47 PM

Can I Publish Your Content In RSS?. ConferencingNews.com publisher John Rourke has written me to manifest his dismay caused by my having announced the creation of a free RSS newsfeed for the aggregated news headlines published on ConferencingNews.com home page. In a public comment to my post... [Robin Good's Latest News] 1:03:30 PM

Brief: Taipei plans citywide Wi-Fi by late 2005. The Taiwan capital of Taipei plans to make wireless Internet access available to as many as 2.6 million of its residents by the end of next year. [Computerworld News] 11:40:38 AM

Texas Instruments Chip Brings TV to Cellphones (Reuters). Reuters - When Texas Instruments needed a code name for its newest chip, the company settled on Hollywood. That's a clear indication of TI's goal for its latest development, the wireless industry's first single-chip digital television for mobile devices. [Yahoo! News: Technology] 10:02:17 AM

Personas: Empathetic Focus. Donald Normal believes that persona creation should be simple and easy to execute and should be aimed at helping design team communicate better. "So to me, the Persona is a tool for focus and an aid to communication, and for this purpose they only need to be realistic, not real, not necessarily even accurate (as long as they accurately characterize the user base). Although it is often fun to read the detailed descriptions of Personas and to pry into their private and social lives, I have never understood how these personal details actually aid in the design process itself. They seem completely superfluous." [elearningpost] 9:51:45 AM

"Golden Age for Online Films". "Golden Age for Online Films": Eric Hellweg of MIT Technology Review surveys/anticipates post-election traffic at rich-media entertainment sites (JibJab, Atom/Shockwave, etc). There's a bit of confusion between video and animation, but that's a minor matter. Good stuff here includes: this... [JD on MX] 9:31:44 AM

MOVIE VISION AV Portable MPEG-4 Recorder, 20GB HD Apple doesn't think you need a video iPod, but apparently these people do: the Movie Vision AV has a 20GB hard drive for MP3s and video, including MPEG-4 and DivX. Even better, like a lot of the other newer PMPs on the market, it can record video, as well (although only shows about dolphins, due to an error in translation leading to the installation of a 'flipper chip.') Oh, and it has video output and is less than $500 USD. You'll need to be in Japan to get one, though, because there's no way anyone is going to try to sell a distended iPod in the US without an Apple lawsuit deathwish. Press Release [System-Talks] - Liam (zmcnulty@techjapan.com) [Gizmodo] 8:46:11 AM

TV2ME Sort of Reviewed Far be it from me to criticize someone for meandering in an article, but somewhere inside this ramble from Bob-X Cringely is an impressed review of TV2ME, one of the new streaming television services being promoted as a way to send your home programming to your laptop over the internet. Although he was checking it out in a closed environment in the inventor's home, he came away very impressed¡Xit was almost indistinguishable from broadcast television even with just a 384kbp/s stream. Considering how poorly Sony's Location Free streaming system has been reviewing, I think I'll believe it when I see it. There is a future there, though, and I hope someone has figured out a slick way to smash the signal on the hardware compression side of things, but who knows. What interests me more is a way to divert that stream into a multicast-type set up, so that not only can I watch my TV at home, but so can anyone else who would like to throw some of their bandwidth at it (and that I allow, of course). TV2US, I guess. Come to Daddy [PBS via DigitalMediaThoughts] - lev (joeljohnson@gmail.com) [Gizmodo] 8:44:53 AM

Voltaic Backpack Ships Soon Remember the Voltaic Backpack we were drooling over back in September? The one with a Lithium Ion battery pack charged via solar power which you can use to charge up your happy little collection of portable electronic devices? Well, it's scheduled to start shipping at the end of this month, and you can preorder them now for $230. I'm all over it. Voltaic Backpack: Taking Orders [CoolHunting] Related Voltaic Solar Backpack [Gizmodo] - Ryan [Gizmodo] 8:41:36 AM

Some useful resources for Political Role Play Simulation. Fablusi was started as a role play simulation platform for running political science role play simulations (polsim in short). One of the key design feature of these polsims was the setting of the simulation time 3 weeks ahead into the future. In other words, the players are in a future world. Any events that happened today in real world will be treated as history in the simulated world - By noemail@noemail.org (Albert Ip). [Random Walk in E-Learning] 8:39:49 AM