When Sony and Samsung launched their new TVs last month at separate launches in Singapore, they wowed audiences with a feature that is fast becoming a standard in even low-end models: Net connectivity. These Net-enabled TVs, which either connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi or wired Ethernet, promise a wide range of uses. Instead of 'leaning back', couch potatoes can now 'lean forward' and browse multiple online content via the built-in apps, which the TVs support, a la Apple's AppStore. Plus, they … [Read more...] about Netting viewers
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Reinventing the Classics
TVAPlus: What are your goals and strategies for the Taiwan TV market? We started the Taiwan office late last year so we're kind of a late-comer in this market. It has a very mature cable business and is also one of the most important Chinese language markets. But the good thing is that the market is undergoing changes, some transitions in a positive manner. There are new launches of pay-TV platforms. There are changes of ownership on platforms and TV channels. And finally, after years of … [Read more...] about Reinventing the Classics
Movin’ on up
Television is going from strength to strength in Asia and CASBAA's CEO, Simon Twiston Davies says all the elements for growth across the region are now coming together, including regulatory policy changes aimed at opening the markets for Pay-TV operators. He says the economic outlook has been a key factor. "The economies have held up. Advertising spending has definitely recovered in the second half of 2010. Though there is still some hesitation with regards to forecasting how the second half of … [Read more...] about Movin’ on up
It’s up to U
Channel U, which debuted on March 13, is a new youth channel aimed at the 15 to 24-year-old market, a segment of the population that has until now been largely ignored by marketers, who prefer to target, what is perceived as the far more lucrative, 25 to 55-year-old market. The channel, which replaces the now-defunct TVNZ 6 on the digital Freeview platform, will play content directly driven by the tastes of its viewers, through interaction with its core audience on social media network Facebook. … [Read more...] about It’s up to U
Inroads in IP
Only a decade ago, animation in Asia was mostly a servicing industry for the big foreign producers and networks. Apart from Japan and its healthy output of anime, the rest of the industry here was at best seen as work-for-hire. Anything original, developed and produced locally, was well off anyone's drawing board. But in more recent times, Asia has begun to show its might and creative prowess in animation, not only in producing programmes but developing characters and series from the ground-up. … [Read more...] about Inroads in IP
Malaysia: An animated journey
Three decades ago, when television in Malaysia was limited to the main channels operated by the stateowned Radio Television Malaysia (RTM), animated programmes were almost exclusively foreign - Saturday morning cartoons from the US and (poorly) dubbed properties from Japan. The first, and for many years sole, local animated content was a series of five rudimentary two-frameper- second edutainment shorts based on fables - Singa yang Haloba ('The Greedy Lion') and Sang Kancil dan Monyet ('The … [Read more...] about Malaysia: An animated journey
