{"id":548405,"date":"2006-03-30T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T21:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548405-tv-world-eyes-digital-future.html"},"modified":"2006-03-30T21:00:02","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T21:00:02","slug":"tv-world-eyes-digital-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548405-tv-world-eyes-digital-future.html","title":{"rendered":"TV world eyes digital future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">And the host of new challenges confronting the TV industry look set to dominate the international MIPTV\/MILIA audiovisual trade fair that kicks off here on Monday. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The brainstorming conferences that run in parallel with the frenzied five-day TV programme buying and selling spree are likely to be this year&#8217;s star attractions, industry watchers predict. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Some 12,000 senior executives from the TV, video, cable, satellite and new media worlds are scheduled to flock to this smart\u00a0 Riviera resort, 5% more than last year. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>&quot;MIPTV featuring MILIA 2006 will be one of our biggest TV markets yet,&quot; Paul Johnson, television director for the show&#8217;s organisers Reed MIDEM, told AFP. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>There are a number of premieres this year, including the first-ever International Interactive Emmy Awards, among television&#8217;s top prizes. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>&quot;This is the first Emmys to be staged outside the USA and confirms our efforts to stay ahead of the curve as digital technology re-shapes our industry,&quot; Johnson added. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Thanks to these latest digital advances, TV is leaping out of its box and on to PCs, play stations, mobile phones and even the iconic iPod&#8217;s latest video reincarnation. Hopes are high that these will all bring in new revenue streams,\u00a0 but this metamorphosis is also catapulting viewers into the driving\u00a0 seat, experts note. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>TV fans increasingly will have greater choice and more control over what they want to watch and where, when and how to view it. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>&quot;The consumer will decide,&quot; FremantleMedia&#8217;s chief creative officer Gary Carter pointed out recently.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0 <br \/><em>INet-Bridge<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been talked about for years and finally it&#8217;s happening. Digital technology is not only revolutionising how and where people  can watch television, but it is also re-shaping the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}