Beet.TV took root at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show, speaking with Boxee CEO Avner Ronen about the platform’s announcement that it will incorporate Hulu Plus and Netflix, as well as with Yahoo! vice president, Connected TV Group Ronald Jacoby for an overview of the interactive-TV software.
The interview with Ronen appears below, and the talk with Jacoby can be found after the jump.
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Samsung Electronics‘ cache of products unveiled at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show included a new Blu-ray player with a companion box that enables Google TV.
Users can surf the Web on their TV screens, including access to social networks, email, and fantasy sports, and Samsung said its special remote control will include a full QWERTY keypad and voice search supported through an internal microphone.
Beet.TV founder and executive producer Andy Plesser caught up with MSNBC Digital Network president Charles Tillinghast at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where Tillinghast touted HTML5 video as the most widely utilized platform.
Tribune announced that it will roll out an app for the upcoming line of Microsoft-based tablets, Mosaic by Tribune, which allows users to select articles to read by clicking on a moving set of photographs.
Mosaic by Tribune will offer content from all of the publisher’s newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Hartford Courant, and users can add feeds from blogs, Twitter, or other online sources. The app will be available free-of-charge, and it will contain higher-resolution advertising.
Tribune co-president Eddy Hartenstein said:
It’s a very different, visual way for readers to sort through and personalize how they want to see news delivered. You just touch it and it blossoms.
UltraViolet will shine at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Thursday evening, as top executives from member companies in cross-industry consortium the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem will participate in a panel in Room LVCCS221 at 5 p.m. (PT), where they will discuss the open market for digital content distribution.
The panel is scheduled to include: Best Buy senior vice president and general manager, home entertainment group Chris Homeister; Fox Filmed Entertainment president, new media and digital distribution Peter Levinsohn; Microsoft corporate VP, media and entertainment group Blair Westlake; NBC Universal president, digital and affiliate distribution J.B. Perrette; Neustar president and CEO Lisa Hook; Samsung Electronics senior VP, media solution center Tae-Jin Kang; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment executive VP, global digital and commercial innovation John Calkins; and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution president Thomas Gewecke.
UltraViolet is a technology that will allow the purchase and viewing of digital content anywhere, on any device, via the use of accounts for up to six members and up to 12 registered devices, and DECE member companies include studios, retailers, consumer-electronics manufacturers, cable operators, Internet-service providers, and others.
UltraViolet products and services are expected to be available around midyear, with the first designed-for-UltraViolet consumer-electronics devices debuting in early 2012.
NBC Universal, official broadcast partner of the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show, to be held in Las Vegas Jan. 6-9, has social-media and online plans for the confab, as well.
On Friday, Jan. 7, Bravo Media will debut social-media experience @bravotv, which will allow fans to interact with Bravo personalities, as well as rolling out the Bravo iPad app, which permits engagement during shows.
Aubrey O’Day, star of All About Aubrey, a docu-reality series that will premiere on Oxygen this spring, will host a live chat on OxygenLive! Saturday, Jan. 8.
CNBC media and entertainment reporter Julia Boorstin will update the Media Money blog with CES news, and the CNBC Real-Time iPad App and premium, professional-level online and mobile service CNBC PRO will be on display at the NBCU booth.
And NBCU will team up with Sharp again to open the doors to The Hub multimedia lounge, where business and entertainment Webcasters and bloggers will post their reports digitally and through social media.
