4j- Digital Television

Game Show Participation
1. Individual
  1. Feel like they are part of game, more interesting
  2. Can lose all answers entered in they change channel
2. TV companies
  1. More popular = more viewers= more ad revenue
  2. Can be expensive to set up facility to receive answers
3. Broadcaster
  1. Facility to allow digital set-top box to answer questions may be costly
  2. Radio/Satellite broadcasters will need a telephone line to send back responses
Pay per view
1. Individual
  1. Large bills
  2. Don't have to pay for whole channel
  3. Can watch program any time
2. TV companies
  1. Extra income
  2. Less revenue from subscriptions
3. Broadcasters
  1. Facility costly to provide
  2. Need to have payment facility
  3. Encryption requires so programs aren't hacked
  4. Need high bandwidth if users can start watching at anytime or its a live event
Voting
1. Individuals
  1. Voting by phone often have expensive premium rate numbers
  2. Feels like they are participating
  3. May be frustrated their vote doesn't win
2. TV companies
  1. Boost revenue
  2. May need to prepare different endings depending on outcome of vote
  3. Have to go along with unpopular vote outcomes
3. Broadcasters
  1. Costly to implement facility to vote using the set-top box
Camera Angles
1. Individuals
  1. Viewers can choose which parts they prefer to watch rather than relying on director
  2. May miss something when switching
2. TV companies
  1. All camera's must have a good view and director can't switch camera if user has chosen it
  2. Have to monitor/ censor more content
3. Broadcasters
  1. More bandwidth needed for extra cameras
  2. Have to show adverts at same time on all cameras
Recording and live pause
1. Individuals
  1. Monthly charge
  2. Won't miss programmes due to disturbances
  3. Can watch and reocrd at the same time
  4. Can watch at convenient time
2. TV companies
  1. Customers can skip adverts, company loses income
3. Broadcasters
  1. Need to update electronic programme guide
  2. Set top boxes require hard disk to store recordings
Feedback to TV studios
1. Individuals
  1. Expensive premium rate numbers
  2. Viewer's response may not be shown
2. TV companies
  1. Moderate messages
  2. Need to sift through many comments
  3. Variety of opinions => less bias
3. Broadcasters
  1. Costly interactive feature to make with top-box
3D TV
1. Individual
  1. Limited content, expensive
  2. Richer viewing ecpxerience
  3. Passive glasses are cheap, but active are expensive
  4. Possible nausea
2. TV companies
  1. Expensive 3D bandwidth
  2. Time consuming to convert 2d to 3d
3. Broadcasters
  1. Need high bandwidth
  2. Different set top box needed
Smart TV
1. Individuals
  1. Easy to set up wireless, but need installing for wired
  2. High bandwidth needed
  3. access content on other devices or online content
2. TV companies
  1. Less time watching raditional TV => Less ad revenue
  2. Need to make apps for variety of platforms
3. Broadcasters
  1. Need to develop ways to transmit TV through internent
  2. Less demand for cable TV

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	Created by Gladys Mba almost 8 years ago