Kangaroo TV to deliver broadcast video feeds at sports events such as Formula 1, NASCAR, NFL and international professional golf tournaments.
Responding to sports fans' demands for more value at events, Kangaroo TV developed the innovative, compact audio-video entertainment device which provides multiple live video feeds including replays, highlights, and in-car camera views. The wireless handset is part of a unique mobile video application which allows spectators to interact with and access exclusive content such as real-time information and statistics. In essence, Kangaroo TV places each fan in the driver's seat of their own interactive live-action experience with high quality video delivered to the palm of their hand. With thousands of units available for rent to the public internationally and for purchase in the USA, Kangaroo TV.
Engineers are aiming for what could be the next big thing at NFL
stadiums and other sports venues: 3-D technology, raising the
possibility of Star Wars-like football beamed to fans in three dimensions.
Video technology also allows more flexibility for advertising.
"If you want to change the advertisers, it's
just delete on the computer," says Jay Parker, national sales manager
for large sports venues at Daktronics, which has equipment in 26 NFL
venues across the country, including University of Phoenix Stadium.
Says Dennis Wellner, a founder of HOK Sport, the Kansas City, Mo.-based
sports architecture firm: "The imagination, I think, is the only
limitation when it comes to video technology."
Future stadiums might also include more
interactive technology in suites, such as voice-activated features or
the ability to choose from different camera angles, adds Jonathan
Knight, a principal at HOK. The firm's clients include 30 NFL
franchises. A major factor driving the innovation: Fans at games want
more information, says Mark Steinkamp, marketing and sales support
manager at Daktronics.
The NFL isn't the only league being transformed
by emerging technology, Steinkamp says. A video display described as
the world's largest high-definition LED display is being readied for
the Kansas City Royals' Kauffman Stadium. The video display, part of a
$250 million stadium renovation project to be completed in 2009, will
be about 105 feet high, weigh about 35 tons and include 5.95 million
individual LEDs, or light emitting diodes.
IPTV Solutions
enCentro´s solutions enable Telco, Hospitality and Corporate customers
to provide interactive video content, thereby leveraging customer
relashionships end existing network infrastructures, and capitalizing
on the global rising interest in advanced interactive video content.
Although IPTV represents the "Internet" as its
first character pair, that term merely references the protocol used to
transport video. It does not mean that the video content be delivered
over the Internet.
The term IPTV refers to the use of IP (the Internet
Protocol) that is required to deliver television and interactive video
content.
Hypervideo
Asterpix enables users to easily create hypervideos and share them through
websites, blogs and email. Analogous to hypertext, hypervideo provides
an interactive experience by allowing viewers to select objects of
interest to get more information or navigate the video.
Online video viewing rises at expense of TVOnline video viewing rises at expense of TV
LONDON (Reuters) - The boom in online video has started to reduce the hours people spend watching television, a survey said on Monday.
The ICM poll of 2,070 people for the BBC found that some 43 percent of Britons who watch video from the Internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less traditional TV as a result. Three quarters of users said they now watched more TV online or on mobiles than they did a year ago. Online video viewers are still a minority though, with just 9 percent saying they go online regularly to watch clips.
Online and mobile video is far more popular among the young, with 28 percent of those aged 16-24 saying they watched more than once each week. That figure fell to just 4 percent among over 45s. The success of sites such as YouTube has boosted access to videos for those who want easy ways to find, watch and share them over the Internet.
Unlike in the United States, where hit TV shows are routinely available from networks' Web sites and services like Apple's downloading store iTunes, Britain is still in the early stages of an online viewing boom. But the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are planning to offer most of their shows on demand on the Internet from the end of this year or the start of 2007.
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