Advanced television
Advanced television is an array of features enabled by digital technology that significantly changes analog television as it has come to be known during the 20th century. The term "advanced television" was first used at the MIT Media Lab in the early 1990s to explain why high-definition television was only an early step in the foreseeable enhancements to the medium. In 1996, David Weiss defined "advanced television" in his book, Issues in Advanced Television Technology[1] to describe "an agglomeration of techniques, based largely on digital signal processing and transmission, that permits far more program material to be carried through channels than existing analog systems can manage."[2] Today, advanced television can be characterized by four features: time shifting, addressability, interactivity and interoperability.
- Time shifting allows the audience to control when content will be seen. US at year-end 2008, 29.8 million (27% of TV households) were DVR subscribers and 41.7 million households (37% of total TV households) were VOD enabled.[3] "In Singapore, the upstart mioTV (an IPTV service provided by incumbent telco SingTel) has a robust VOD offering that includes movies, local content and more than 50 popular US programs as early as 24 hours after the programs’ US premieres. Content is supplied on a subscription basis."[permanent dead link] [4]
- Addressability allows the advertisers to direct messages to different segments of the audience; the audience can also self select (address to self) the content and commercial messages they receive. Segmentation can occur at geographic, demographic, behavioral and (in some cases) self-selected individual household levels.
- Interactivity empowers the audience to respond to or bypass content; the advertiser and media can benefit financially from measuring audience response. Now television commercials can enable audience response to a variety of offers using the standard remote. The same response mechanisms that can be used to ask the audience for information or transactional responses can serve as the basis for consumer database marketing. And with that, it becomes natural for media advertising, relationship marketing, and promotion to converge.In India, "Dish TV (India's leading satellite service) allows a viewer to access information about their bank account and various banking products held at India's largest bank."[permanent dead link] [5]
- Interoperability means that the same program and commercial content viewed using a television receiver can cross platforms and be viewed across a multiplicity of platforms/appliances, not just the TV, but also the PC, the mobile handset, the iPod, etc.[6] From a technical standpoint, interoperability between media platforms "requires that all the media has to adopt the same fundamental compression scheme."[7]
In his Advanced TV Advertising Forecast,
Advertiser demands for accountability will require new measurements of advertising effectiveness that differ from the "exposure" measurements now so prevalent for determining media cost and efficiencies.[9] Exposure measurements will still have a significant role to play in both pricing and efficiency analyses; but exposure will be a first level of measurement: creating the initial opportunity to generate demand. The concept of exposure will now have to be expanded from real time to include time-shifted and cross platform exposure. The second level of measurement for media pricing and efficiency will be for delivery of additional information. In some ways, this parallels the internet click through model. Here we measure and compensate the media for delivery of additional commercial content based on the requests of the audience. The third level of measurement is transactional. At this level, we measure response and compensate the media for assisting in generating the desired response:
1. opting-in for more information by media or personal delivery
2. redemption of a promotional offer
3. taking a specified action
To satisfy the marketer's need for accountability, the next generation of media measurement will be a multi-level hybrid of the disparate measurements now being used by advertising, direct response, and internet media.
Since the technology to deliver Advanced Television has been extant for over ten years, the current broadcasting business model must be inhibiting the broadscale introduction of Advanced Television. The power players on the selling side: the content developers, the
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Notes
- ISBN 0-240-80250-0.
- ISBN 0-240-80250-0, Drawn from the pages of the author's popular "Advanced Television" column in TV Technology magazine
- ^ [1][permanent dead link] Wieser, Brian, Magna On-Demand Quarterly, April 2009, p. 3, MagnaInsights.com
- ^ [2][permanent dead link] Wieser, Brian, Magna On-Demand Quarterly, April 2009, p. 5, www.MagnaInsights.com
- ^ [3][permanent dead link] Wieser, Brian, Magna On-Demand Quarterly, April 2009, p. 4, www.MagnaInsights.com
- S2CID 167374549.
- ISBN 0-240-80250-0, Drawn from the pages of the author's popular "Advanced Television" column in TV Technologymagazine
- ^ [4][permanent dead link] Wieser, Brian, Media Brands- Reports & Studies, May 2009, p. 3, www.mediabrands.com
- ^ Gertner, J. "Our Ratings, Ourselves -- The Mismeasurement of TV.". New York Times Magazine, April 10, 2005.
- ^ a b [5] Kumar, Vishesh and Schechner, Sam; Wall Street Journal, May 27, 2009
- ^ [6][permanent dead link] Wieser, Brian, Media Brands- Reports & Studies. May 2009, Magna
External links
- Ensequence Interactive Television
- http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/american-express-interactive-channel-is-set-to-reach-50-million-homes/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20121130034315/http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/american-express-fox-enable-mobile-commerce-for-%E2%80%9Cnew-girl%E2%80%9D-viewers
- http://adage.com/article/media/social-tv-business/238347/