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Joe Born | 30 Jun 20:33

Will User Generated Commentary Change TV?

I thought of freeculture immediately when this came up.

A lot of what we know about the future of TV from big media is pretty
predictable, more choice, better time shifting, more portability, etc.
 Where it really gets interesting is when developers get access to the
TV set do all the kind of random experimentation they do best.

At a BBC sponsored event, a UK developer combined chatting with
television and here's what he got:

http://open.neurostechnology.com/content/crowd-narration-future-tv
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Matthew J. Agnello | 1 Jul 07:32

Re: Will User Generated Commentary Change TV?

Sounds awesome in relation to politics. Text commentary would be significantly higher quality than the spoken commentary you hear on TV. (Plus, they wouldn't be required to fill gaps by saying a lot of nothing.) And think what kind of coolness you could get by mixing live text commentary with a service like Twitter.

But personally, I wouldn't want chat overlayed over a TV show or a piece of fiction I was watching. Maybe a separate chatroom to help people tolerate my tendency to talk during movies, though. "omg that's all one shot!1!! oh no you didn't just make a hitchcock reference lol! omgbirds!"

Best,
// Matt

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Matthew J. Agnello
http://hungryfilmmaker.com/

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Joe Born <joeborn <at> gmail.com> wrote:
I thought of freeculture immediately when this came up.

A lot of what we know about the future of TV from big media is pretty
predictable, more choice, better time shifting, more portability, etc.
 Where it really gets interesting is when developers get access to the
TV set do all the kind of random experimentation they do best.

At a BBC sponsored event, a UK developer combined chatting with
television and here's what he got:

http://open.neurostechnology.com/content/crowd-narration-future-tv
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Peter Olson | 1 Jul 13:59

Re: Will User Generated Commentary Change TV?

At 10:32 PM -0700 6/30/08, Matthew J. Agnello wrote:

>But personally, I wouldn't want chat overlayed over a TV show or a 
>piece of fiction I was watching.

I agree absolutely.  One of the most disorienting movie experiences is to
watch a movie with subtitles in the same language as the movie.  It gets
hard to pay attention to either the subtitles or the sound track.  News
crawls cause this kind of interference as well.

If you're going to interleave commentary, it works better after the fact.
Certainly it would be more effective to mash up the commentary with 
the original
than to have a bunch of talking heads saying things like, "His comments about
yade-yade were in contradiction to widespread opinion that ..."  Some of the
mashups of politicians using their own speeches of a year previous illustrate
this nicely.

peter
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