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Need A Beta Site for Your IPTV Product, Service or Technology? Alan's House Available. (I Also Sign NDA's)

If you are a manufacturer or provider of IPTV products and services and need a real world Beta site, in a setting family friendly home (here's our family room with HD home theatre) send an email to: alan at weinkrantz dot com and I will contact you.

I sign NDA's and won't write about what you are up to unless you say go for it. 

My goal in doing this is to provide the industry with a real test bed for new products, services and technologies in IPTV and beyond.

Also- analysts, media, bloggers and financial analysts coming to San Antonio to see the phone company as we no longer no it, are welcomed to come to a real home with real HD TV over IP with a nice home theatre set up.

The housekeeper comes on Tuesdays, but it only takes a day or two for us to mess up the house.  If you don't mind  dirty dishes, un-made beds, and piled up laundry, you can get a real world experience of seeing U-verse and all it has to offer. 

 

Om Blogs About This Blog

If you want some of the best daily reporting on technology trends, and specifically on ITPV, check out GigaOM.

Om Malik has written a story on AT&T's U-verse roll out and refers to me at the end citing this blog and the video I have posted on YouTube showing how I now can watch both IPTV and InternetTV on a Windows Media Computer running Vista.

Snacks and Meals - The difference between Online Video and TV

I found this post  on Mark Cuban's Blog...

Lately, I've been watching IPTV and Internet TV and after reading Mark's post, he best articulates the obvious differences.

Worth Reading.

A Review of 17 of the Most Talked About Consumer Facing Online Video Companies and How They Differ

I am watching more and more Internet-based video programming. 

Don't get me wrong- I love the Discovery Channel in HD, the great concerts on HDNet, and seeing the Spurs in HD.

But I also like some of the content that is being published and promoted on the Internet. 

Here's a review of the 17 Most Talked About Consumer Facing Online Video Companies and How They Differ.

Alan's Personal Favorite HD Network: HDNet

HDNet is my personal favorite HD network.

I watched HDNet when I had TimeWarner Cable and was glad when they came to terms with AT&T to carry their network.  HDNet was  the first national television network to broadcasting all of its programming in 1080i HD, the highest-quality format of high-definition television (HDTV).

Launched September 2001 by co-founders Mark Cuban, who also owns the Dallas Mavericks and is very prolific blogger in his own right, and Philip Garvin of Colorado Studios. 

They produce and and televise more hours of HDTV sports, news and entertainment programming each week than any other network.

All HDNet original programming is HD-DVR compatible, so  you can pause and time-shift shows so that they can watch them when they want.

Original HDNet series include shows like HDNet World Report, True Music w/Katie Daryl, HDNet Concert Series, Get Out!, Face 2 Face with Roy Firestone, Art Mann Presents... and Higher Definition, and Sound Off with Matt Pinfield.  They also have licensed programming  from studios like Paramount, Warner Brothers, Sony and other studios.

Live HDNet sports productions include National Hockey League games, Major League Soccer games, NASCAR Grand National Division auto racing, HDNet Boxing, and WEC Cagefighting.

HDNet Movies delivers a commercial-free schedule of full-length feature films transferred from 35mm to high definition, in addition to movies produced and finished in true 1080i high-definition. HDNet Movies broadcasts 24/7 full-length feature films from Warner Bros, New Line, Paramount, Buena Vista, LionsGate/Artisan, MGM, Universal, Sony Pictures and other independents - thousands of films licensed to date.

HDNet Movies also features original high-definition movies produced by HDNet Films.  HDNet Films have their world debut on HDNet Movies the same day they debut in theatres.

Click here to see their programming schedule.

On Friday, I will be addressing some of my ideas on how a network like HDNet could extend its brand in order to emulate and leverage AT&T's own 3 Screen strategy.