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Dn Garrihy | | Dear Ryse fellow-travellers,
Some ten years ago I had a dream of providing everyone in the world – who wanted one - with their own Internet TV channels. For too long, I reasoned, we have had to accept whatever programming the terrestrial TV channels threw at us. Control of TV programming was and is in the hands of agenda-driven corporations and dictatorial Governments.
One year ago I re-engineered technology my company had developed and built the world’s first interactive internet TV channel by combining video advertising with web conferencing. This expedient positions anyone anywhere at anytime to show any range of videos on their internet TV channels and to invite experts to be interviewed on the subject matter of a given video by web conference. The two-screen conferences are recorded and, in turn, shown on video, thus building a large video library at almost zero cost.
We will shortly be able to transmit online to PDAs. Cell ‘phone owners will be able to watch and participate in LIVE web conferences from their cell ‘phones. Owners of these Internet TV channels will build their own online communities who will air their views on their pet subjects via live and recorded web conferences, to the whole world.
We are now building a 21 party web conference system which will allow groups of any size in 21 locations around the world to both view and participate in live online discussions on a whole variety of subjects – as, for example, in the live-aid TV transmissions.
Can you envision participating in web conferences on world cup soccer, for example, with experts or enthusiasts in that field while, perhaps, on the train to work, via your cell ‘phone?
Think about it: individuals on modest incomes owning their own internet TV channels !
And that,will be the most phenomenal breakthrough in communications the world has ever experienced - and the next massive wave in internet communication.
Dn. Garrihy Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 05, 2006 2:14 pm | | re: Personal internet TV channels | # |
Tom Foale | | Are you aware of Intel's ViiV? It is promising to do the same thing, but to TV's not PC's. Private Reply to Tom Foale | | Jul 05, 2006 3:53 pm | | re: re: Personal internet TV channels | # |
Dn Garrihy | | Tom,
Many companies have attempted to build their own versions of an internet TV channel without success but our MDM internet TV channel is the only one that can do everything a terrestrial channel can do - and more.
For example, an MDM channel can be used not just to show videos online but to build a massive video library for online viewing through the simple expedient of recording web conferences with experts in any field AT VIRTUALLY ZERO COST!
Here are just some of the applications:
1. Global Interet TV channels: Identical to terrestrial TV but the Internet TV channels are interactive and have a global reach e.g. Films, Interviews (via web conferences) Sports, Politics, nich-market programs. A local radio station with a 50 mile broadcasting range, for example, can be transformed to an Internet TV channel with a global reach!
2. Commercial Internet TV Channels : These will be sold to anyone, anywhere to launch unique global businesses or any legitimate enterprise in any category of their choice employing MDM methodology.
3. Mega Channels Sales: These Internet TV channels will dedicated to mega-events e. g. Global Exhibitions (Products, Arts etc) Global Classrooms, Global Pulpits, Global Theatre, Global Serviced Offices, Global Shopping Malls, Global Tourist Expos.
4. Tele-magazines and Newspapers: Like any newspaper or magazine this product includes text but pictures are replaced by videos. Its ideal for online newspapers and magazines.
The cost of acquisition of our TV channels and the ongoing cost of running a channel is so low that anyone on an average income can own one i.e. you don’t have to own Intel to be able to afford a channel.
Statistics from many countries indicate that people are now spending more time online than in watching TV and this will boost internet TV viewing. Additionally TV sets are now being fitted with modems to access the internet and this too will sell TV channels. The medium that will build the boom in this area, however, will be cell ‘phone access to internet TV web conferencing systems.
There is another major ingredient that will build a huge internet wave but we will not announce it until we launch our internet TV channels sales.
Dn. Garrihy
Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 06, 2006 6:24 am | | re: re: re: Personal internet TV channels | # | 
John T | | Why build an "Internet TV channels" when you can utilize existing TV channels and push them thru IP?
Webcam have been around for awhile and have actually matured enough to be mated with VoIP handsets.
What is your deferentiating value proposition that isn't already on the market? Private Reply to John T | | Jul 06, 2006 7:51 am | | re: re: re: re: Personal internet TV channels | # |
Dn Garrihy | | John T,
We also deliver terrestrial TV on our internet TV channel but as a side show for the benefit of ethnic communities everywhere so that they can watch TV from their countries of origin.
Our Internet TV channel delivers infinitely more than that e.g. everyone in the world on an even modest income can own one of these channels, produce their own programming and receive from us the methodology to manage it.
Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 07, 2006 3:17 am | | Video as the next "breakthrough" technology for the Internet - forecasted in 2000 | # | 
Ken Hilving | |
New Page 1
Daniel -
I don't mean to rain on your parade, but a couple
of things strike me as important to your business.
First off is your web site. Four channels of
Internet video, but a ton of text pages. I don't have a problem with the layout
or content, but find it interesting that a site for a business touting video as
an enabling and breakthrough technology would not demonstrate this by its almost
exclusive use. This contradiction might be evidence that video has a place,
but is by no means the "new" and best approach to e-business? Just something
to consider.
Next is an article in
Discover
Magazine. Back in 2000, video was forecasted as the next killer application.
After six years, this has not come about. This despite the widespread
availability of PC connected video cameras and video messaging. Why?
This brings me to the third point. Transport is
the easy piece of television or video. The real challenge is putting together a
production - the lighting, the background, the content, and the flow - that
actually delivers the intended message. Anyone who has sat through home movies
or home videos, watched the do it yourself low budget commercials, saw the
Kennedy-Nixon debates, or participated in a department video conference,
understands my point. In short, crap is crap no matter how cleverly delivered. I
wouldn't subject anyone to some of the home movies I have made, or video
recordings of classes I have taught.
Making the world's film library available to
anyone anywhere on demand is a noble goal. I wish you all the best with it.
Private Reply to Ken Hilving | | Jul 07, 2006 7:57 am | | re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology for the Internet - forecasted in 2000 | # |
Dn Garrihy | | Kenneth,
There is little in your posting that can be contradicted and if it described our Internet TV channels you would indeed have “rained on my parade” (and believe me when I tell you we know all about rain in this part of the world!).
Let’s therefore take a closer look at our concept:
Our initial attempt at combining web conferencing with video advertising to build an internet TV channel was built by a techie; he was employed to simply make it work which is the reason those initial sites-cum-channels you saw were not advertised but wait for the new concept in design which will launch our product next month and you will be impressed. In fact, you will, when you view it, witness the dawning of the day when Internet TV channels will be as common as computers are today (and you will recall being cautioned many years ago that computers would never become popular).
You mention, quite rightly, that video advertising has not reached its potential but streaming video technology which is essential to the success of our concept had not until recently been sufficiently technically advanced to serve our purposes. Currently, however, leading industry analysts predict (and I can provide details to you) that streaming video sales will grow from its current level of some $2 Billion a year in the US to $12 billion over the next few years in that country. Our second ingredient, Web conferencing technology, had advanced little until recently but now you can rent a top class conferencing facility for up to $18,000 per day!
I shudder (with you) at the thought of people acquiring one of our internet TV channels to show home movies; that is one of the reasons we provide them with a 1,000 page reference manual which directs them on how to acquire videos relevant to their businesses or other pursuits, free of charge. Full details of how to use them must remain our secret. As for training people to use web conferencing to interview experts in any field, that has been done successfully by several corporations which I can name
Finally, Kenneth, making the world’s film library available to the world is not of interest to us – Google are already doing that. We have built the world’s first Interactive internet TV channel and I hope you will be the first to contribute to live debates AUDIO-VISUALLY on them from your cell ‘phone.
Bottom line: People retain 10% of what they read but 80% of what they see.
Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 07, 2006 1:13 pm | | re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology for the Internet - forecasted in 2000 | # | 
Ira Stoller | | Sorry, I still don't buy it.
As Ken said, the biggest cost for a quality product is production. That won't change. Home movies of baby's first step are of very limited interest, but can be posted today. Example: My family is very close, but geographically far flung. To stay in touch we have a family web site where we all can - and do - post pictures and videos. As John said, web cameras are of very good quality these days. How are you going to improve on what's already available?
And what value is there for somebody to show a professionally produced video or film using your technology? They can easily post it on a web site today.
If everybody has one it's no longer special. At least not the way you're presenting it. How many individuals have content that a significant number of other individuals would want to see?
And a 1,000 page reference manual? You've got to be kidding! Anything that's perceived to be that complicated will send everyone other than the extreme techies running swiftly in the oppposite direction. You may SAY that it's really easy to use, but anyone seeing your manual won't believe you.
I still don't understand what will be so special about your technology. What's your differentiator? What's your go-to-market strategy? Where is your revenue going to come from? How do you plan to attract investors, or are you planning to self-finance this venture?
There was an old joke that compared something with a certain country. The punch line was something like everyone knows where it is but nobody goes there. Just make sure you're not producing something similar.Private Reply to Ira Stoller | | Jul 07, 2006 2:04 pm | | re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology for the Internet - forecasted in 2 | # |
Tom Foale | | For content, the concept of the 'long tail' comes into play. Almost all content gets at least some play when it is made available.
The biggest problem with this concept is it seems to lack any form of copy protection, which will be essential for commercial copy and possibly some advertisers - who like to control when and where their marketing material gets played so they can monitor responses. The ViiV platform will have this, plus Intel has co-opted most of the equipment manufacturers, so it will automatically come when you buy a TV or home computer (or fridge, or hi-hi, etc). ViiV has many capabilities that can't be mimicked by cobbling together existing technologies, however good an idea it is.
However, ViiV is a commercial proposition for commercial programming, so this may well have a big role to play in the video blog /home content area.
However, I agree it has got to be simple for non-technical users. I know lots of people that would rather miss a programme than open a video recorder instruction book - technophobia is alive and doing well.
TomPrivate Reply to Tom Foale | | Jul 07, 2006 2:31 pm | | re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology for the Internet - forecasted in 2 | # |
Dn Garrihy | | Ira: Sorry, I still don't buy it.
Dn. How could you since you have not seen it?
Ira: As Ken said, the biggest cost for a quality product is production. That won't change. Home movies of baby's first step are of very limited interest, but can be posted today.
Dn. As I assured Ken, the possibility of home movies being shown on these new video channels is zero due to the fact that we developed the technology to reconstruct existing videos.
Ira: And what value is there for somebody to show a professionally produced video or film using your technology? They can easily post it on a web site today.
Dn: Millions of dollars in acquiring and re-engineering advanced web conferencing and video streaming technology e.g. ever tried showing 100 videos simultaneously on the web? Do you know of any terrestrial TV channel that maintains a stock of less than that number and our goal is to position purchasers of our Internet TV channels to do anything TTV can do and more.
Ira: If everybody has one it's no longer special. At least not the way you're presenting it. How many individuals have content that a significant number of other individuals would want to see?
Dn: I believe everyone has a genius for something, however latent it may be. If we can motivate individuals with expertise in a given field to come together in a new kind of Internet community we plan to build we will bring that genius to the fore – the rest is mere technology.
Ira: And a 1,000 page reference manual? You've got to be kidding! Anything that's perceived to be that complicated will send everyone other than the extreme techies running swiftly in the opposite direction. You may SAY that it's really easy to use, but anyone seeing your manual won't believe you.
Dn. Right – were it a mere technical manual but it also includes management, marketing, accounting and all relevant material necessary to operate on a global stage – the first draft of which we sold to Franchisors 25 years ago. Obviously the average guy will not need to, for example, be aware of currency conversation rates and will, therefore, not be provided with more than is required for a given project.
Ira: I still don't understand what will be so special about your technology. What's your differentiator? What's your go-to-market strategy? Where is your revenue going to come from? How do you plan to attract investors, or are you planning to self-finance this venture?
Dn. Never needed investors and never will. As for market strategy we sent 12 people to research this in virtually every major city in the larger countries of the world and will present our marketing strategy at our global launch next month. Our revenue will come from the sale of these Internet TV channels and our methodology.
Ira: There was an old joke that compared something with a certain country. The punch line was something like everyone knows where it is but nobody goes there. Just make sure you're not producing something similar.
Dn: Come on Ira, surely you have not lost some sense of “the great American dream” ? You must be aware that tenacity is a key ingredient of success i.e. if it doesn’t work FIX IT!
Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 07, 2006 2:38 pm | | Content protection and competing solutions? | # |
Ken Hilving | | Tom has a good point about content protection.
At http://www.vircas.com/business/ this is tackled with player modifications. They have a similar business model, as well as some interesting future approaches not shown on the site.
The real issue is the business model. These are advertising services, not technology breakthroughs. Success will depend upon value as an advertising solution, which means putting the ads in front of a select demographic and validating delivery.Private Reply to Ken Hilving | | Jul 07, 2006 2:50 pm | | re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology for the Internet - forecasted | # |
Dn Garrihy | | Tom, We developed a formula some 20 years ago which allows us to patent our TV channels. Having said it has been my experience that there is little possibility of protecting any technology when trading globally.For example,one of my sons found an exact copy of his patented product in a factory in a certain country recently. The only way I know to truly protect one’s business is to continuously build or acquire and re-engineer new technology to stay ahead of rivals but since we do not have any competitors…...!!!!!
Simplicity is indeed the key and that is the reason our Internet TV channels are built by our own web editors (which every purchaser will receive) which can be used by a kid. Therefore, just a small part of out manual includes references to technical issues and even that is written in non-technical language which I believe is essential. Techies do NOT try this at home!
Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 07, 2006 3:40 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology for the Internet - forecas | # |
Dn Garrihy | | Ken,
I refuse to look at other business models on the basis that I could be persuaded to swerve from the one I have used for many years i.e. “if it ain’t broken don’t fix it” – an old adage qualified for Ira above!
I would suggest to you, Ken, that whilst the components of the wheel may well have been used prior to its invention I would have to insist that the wheel was new technology.
Sure, many of the Internet TV models we have produced are immensely powerful ADVERTISING media but primarily the technology delivers a supreme COMMUNICATIONS medium i.e. Internet TV.
Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 09, 2006 11:16 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology for the Internet - for | # |
John T | | Dn.
Can you explain your definition of an Internet TV Channel?
From your discreptions it seems more like a webcam broadcasting service.
Also here some insight on your prior comments to me.
John T,
We also deliver terrestrial TV on our internet TV channel but as a side show for the benefit of ethnic communities everywhere so that they can watch TV from their countries of origin.
--I do that now I get Russian TV from my DishTV and if I'm on the road I can watch it on my laptop or PDA via the SlingBox I described earlier--
Our Internet TV channel delivers infinitely more than that e.g. everyone in the world on an even modest income can own one of these channels, produce their own programming and receive from us the methodology to manage it.
---couldn't I do that now if I wanted? my mobile has the capbility to create video clips, I have a webcam to brodcast live as well. just download to a "myspace" type website and people can watch my shows at will.----Private Reply to John T | | Jul 12, 2006 8:25 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology for the Internet - | # |
Dn Garrihy | | John T.
As previously mentioned, the provision of access to dozens of terrestrial TV channels is just one of the many peripheral attractions we include in our Internet TV channel arising from our global research.
I have no doubt that you can, and probably will be among the many people who will build your own version of an Internet TV channel.
When we set out to design our version we decided that the essential ingredients were technology and methodology.
In the technical area we realized that SOME of the important factors were:
The provision of high-definition web conferencing.
The technology to allow the simultaneous playing of multiple videos on the our full-size TV screen and, obviously, a function that allows the selection of any one of them..
Video editing technology that positions inexperienced programmers to produce high standard video from standardized clips.(though we live in the era of reality TV when this is assuming less importance).
Methodology is obviously vital in that every purchaser of our Internet TV channels will, for the first time, launch and manage a global business and, therefore, need management, accounting and marketing know-how to operate on a global stage. This is the great challenge to them
There is little relationship between a web cam broadcasting service and our Internet TV channels. The bottom line is that purchasers can do what a major terrestrial TV network can do and more.
Incidentally, we plan to announce the launch of our tele-magazines shortly where videos replace photos to mention but one feature of it.
Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 12, 2006 3:19 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology for the Intern | # |
Ira Stoller | | Dn,
You seem unconvinced by all the messages telling you that everything you're proposing already exists in some form or other. We're just trying to warn you that you may NOT have the greatest thing since sliced bread. If you still want to forge ahead with no changes to your concept, that's ok. The Great Differentiator is the marketplace itself which will tell you whether or not you have a saleable concept. For your sake I hope you prove us all wrong.
Good luck to you.Private Reply to Ira Stoller | | Jul 12, 2006 4:02 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology for the In | # |
Dn Garrihy | | Ira,
Some of your contributors have made observations but mostly have added intelligent questions to which I have responded. I have not detected any negativity from any of them.
All of the private responses are excited at the prospect of selling or owning one of our Internet TV channels.
“Luck” is an alien concept to me. The key to the success of most major projects of this nature involves the fusing of global technology licensing with global master franchising and global communications backed up by extensive global research, substantial investment in technology, fool-proof methodology, tenacity and the services of a proven management team.
Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 12, 2006 8:10 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology for th | # |
Ira Stoller | | Ok, I withdraw the good luck comment. Private Reply to Ira Stoller | | Jul 12, 2006 9:21 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology fo | # |
Dn Garrihy | | Ira,
If something we said can be interpreted two ways, and one of the ways makes you unhappy, we meant the other one (we know you like humour!). Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 12, 2006 9:32 pm | | Video as the next "breakthrough" technology fo | # |
Ira Stoller | | Er, um, huh? Wha? You might be the first person in history who actually took me seriously. Private Reply to Ira Stoller | | Jul 12, 2006 10:15 pm | | re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology fo | # |
Dn Garrihy | | TOUCHE, Ira! Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 14, 2006 9:48 am | | re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology fo | # | 
Desiree De Andrade | | Hi Everyone
My understanding of "LUCK" is LABOUR UNDER CORRECT KNOWLEDGE. I think the most salient point made in this discussion is that the market will decide whether they have the time to watch that much television and how useful this technology is! As for those of us who are keeping the economy going, I would like the abriged version of the 1000 page manual please.
What would you think the LSM of a person utilising this service would be. i.e on a scale of 1-12 (what would their living standard be? One being the poorest person on earth and twelve having a stable of Ferraris) What market are you targeting? The thinking behind this is whether this technology will take off on the African continent, which has a very diverse market.
I would be interested to know what anyone's thoughts in this regard are.
Private Reply to Desiree De Andrade | | Jul 14, 2006 7:08 pm | | re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology fo | # |
Dn Garrihy | | Des: My understanding of "LUCK" is LABOUR UNDER CORRECT KNOWLEDGE.
Dn: That is a great theory but it does not get a manual written or technology modified?
Des: I think the most salient point made in this discussion is that the market will decide whether they have the time to watch that much television and how useful this technology is!
Dn. Internet TV is not just about entertainment but about education, advertising and above all else communication. Having said that, I should mention that the “Crocodile Dundee” films, though made for entermainment,did more for Australian tourism than any previous Government initiatives.
I contend that commercial success, though essential to the ongoing development of any business, is not the sole criteria that should motivate us to work. For example, I have lived through the reign of the worst mass-murderers in history and even now the merchants of hate continue with their genocide and religious persecution in many parts of the world. The violated do not have access to the media but perhaps now they will, as it is my intention and to provide free Internet TV channels to the persecuted so that they may tell the world about their plight.
Des: As for those of us who are keeping the economy going, I would like the abriged version of the 1000 page manual please.
Dn: Think about this, Desiree: without technology there would not be an economy e.g. we are currently testing an organic fertilizer which, if it lives up to its billing, will make a major impact on global food and fish production.
A very senior Lawyer friend of mine mentioned to me some years ago that the only document that he had tried but failed to have sight of was McDonald’s Franchisee manual. I hope that gives you some indication of just how closely operations manuals are guarded.
Des: What would you think the LSM of a person utilising this service would be. i.e on a scale of 1-12 (what would their living standard be? One being the poorest person on earth and twelve having a stable of Ferraris) What market are you targeting? The thinking behind this is whether this technology will take off on the African continent, which has a very diverse market.
Dn: As already mentioned in previous postings anyone on an average income can afford to own one of our TV channels and we have identified many groups to whom they will be made available free of charge.
You will be glad to know that we are already in negotiation with an African radio station to provide them with an Internet TV channel which will give them the power to broadcast, audio-visually, to the world rather than in sound only to their local listeners. This is one of 10 pilot groups who will help advertise and perfect our concept.
We have identified seven massive markets for our Internet TV channels but you will have to wait a few weeks for the launch for further details.
Des: I would be interested to know what anyone's thoughts in this regard are.
Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 15, 2006 3:48 am | | re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology fo | # |
John T | | Ira,
If you're handing out good luck, I'll take some.
What's life with a little luck?
Regardless, of the best plans of mice and men.
Sometimes all it takes is being in the right spot at the right time! LOLPrivate Reply to John T | | Jul 15, 2006 6:31 pm | | re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology fo | # |
Tom Foale | | I see this as (at least) a two-tier market.
At the top end will be the high-production-values paid-for content (whether paid for by an advertiser or the consumer). This will have full DRM capabilities and will probably be created around Intel's Viiv, taking advantage of the 'long tail' to create demand. Any organisation with the money can have their own interactive, high quality content delivery 'channel'. Whether this is allowed to thrive will depend on whether the (no longer baby) Bells manage to avoid net neutrality - however I think Intel (with a global market) has at least the lobbying powers of the domestic-only Bells.
The second tier will be something like yours, or a video blog. No complex and expensive content repurposing and no DRM because it is not necessary for the content it carries, and therefore cheaper. No expensive central hosting with guaranteed delivery either, probably a best-efforts service based on the cheapest hosting available.
However, a company I am involved with is about to give away for free a piece of software that will allow people to securely share whatever they want to publish with anyone else - in either open or closed communities. The software incorporates a sophisticated search capability too, so whatever has been published can be quickly found anywhere on the network. It gives people complete control over what they publish and who they publish it to. The only difference is that once it is published, any copies that are downloaded cannot be retrieved. However, it could easily support a DRM capability if anyone wanted to add one. So if someone chooses to publish a video on this - how is that different from what you are charging for?Private Reply to Tom Foale | | Jul 15, 2006 10:30 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology fo | # |
Dn Garrihy | | Tom,
You are getting closer. In fact we are looking at a seven-tier market which is summarized below.
1. Mega-Internet TV channels will be established by small groups of people with expertise in video production who will set up their own Internet TV channels’ programs for global consumption. They will operate from well-equipped but compact recording studios in their own homes or offices (as is already happening, for example, in the music industry).
2. Individual Owners of our Internet TV channels will focus on targeted communities i.e. each TV channel purchaser will be directed to build its own internet TV channel community to which they will transmit their material, thus building dedicated viewing communities.
3. Entrepreneurs, will be set up in any legitimate business of their choice. They will procure agencies for products or services, advertise their suppliers’ products on the video screens on their Internet TV channels and close sales by web conference. No I.T. experience, capital, risk, overheads, stock, creditors, debtors, advertising, time-consuming meetings or travel is required of them. They can work their own hours, are their own bosses and their income, once established, accrues from repeat business. All they need is a computer, an internet connection & MDM’s technology/methodology. But the piece de resistance for Entrepreneurs worthy of that aspiration is the challenge of owning their own their own global businesses.
Your “longtail” idea suggests that our research related to one and two above is accurate. To quote you for the benefit of visitors: “ The “longtail” idea that the anytime, anywhere nature of the internet will allow media demand to migrate away from mass entertainment towards niche entertainment - people will be able to select exactly what they are interested in and when they are interested in watching or listening to it”
Contrary, however, to your conviction that major funding will be required by any of the participating parties, we believe our methodology has overcome that problem. The key to success in all three ventures is our methodology; it is the glue that binds the packages together.
I believe when you see the product you will find that is is as far from a blog as Morse code is from email!
The concept could be described as the repackaging and re-engineering of existing technology to produce a new concept in advertising, entertainment and communication
We completed the penultimate drafts of our advertising blurb yesterday and we mentioned a number of recent developments that further support our research:
1. U.K Residents, according to a Goggle survey in 2006, spent an average of 164 minutes per day on the internet compared to 148 minutes viewing terrestrial TV.
2. Research indicates that 55% of how we communicate is through body language, 38% through
tonality and 7% is through the actual words. Global web conferencing is, for that and many other reasons an indispensable communications tool.
3. Google set out to build a virtual monopoly in film and video distribution in 2006
4. Skype cornered the market on internet telephony and video conferencing in 2006.
5. Universal studios made a bid to monopolize the music business by offering low-cost downloads of a vast array of music in 2006.
6. Zenith produced TV sets with built in internet access. Among the features included: E-Mail, chat, Internet browsing and online shopping.
Your contribution is the best I have had to date and very useful, for which I thank you. In relation to the other points in your letter I will have to consult my techies next week to ensure I understand what you are getting at as I cannot see their relevance to our product
Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 15, 2006 11:01 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology fo | # |
Tom Foale | | You should look at Viiv. I have looked closely at the value network for TV viewing - whoever controls the DRM mechanism controls the customer. BSkyB is successful in the UK because it controls access to the consumer, via its set-top box and its DRM capability. BSkyB controls UK soccer viewing (which in turn drives demand) because of that - it can cross-subsidise the costs of acquiring soccer by charging every other content provider inflated costs for access to the consumer. However, BSkyB is one way and delivers broadcast channels only, so it is vulnerable.
Intel is doing much the same thing. Soon almost all home PC's and most home entertainment equipment will be Viiv-enabled. Centrino will be for business users. We will no longer need a set-top box - in effect, every home PC will contain a set-top box, with content delivered by broadband. Viiv will deliver high-quality content to anywhere in the home - users will be able to move from room to room with their chosen programme following them. Viiv is disruptive - it gives people access to what they want when they want it at a lower cost (hopefully) because there is no need to acquire a separate set-top box or even make a decision to take a contract - every PC and TV will automatically come with the capability.
So its not that major funding is required - just that Intel's financial muscle and position as the silicon heart of the PC can give it control of a massive market almost by default. Viiv is disruptive.
Why is our software relevant? Well, the publishing capability allows someone to describe something so it can be found, or so that someone can be told that something new has appeared that is relevant to their needs. Whether that something is a tree, a database or some video content doesn't matter. Once the content is found the way it is handled is also described by the publisher - so it can be downloaded or streamed as required, so long as the delivery system can handle it.Private Reply to Tom Foale | | Jul 16, 2006 11:03 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology fo | # | 
April Diehl | | Please excuse the simplistic nature of my question. I have read through all of the post in this thread and find it fascinating.
I do not understand all of the concepts but it sounds to me like this new idea will be an internet form of Public Broadcasting, without the restrictions that are currently enforced.
When I first read about it, I thought it might be a way to use the internet to see the TV shows on "terrestial TV" all in once place.. Like a TV on demand, regardless of my location.
For example: I live in Florida so many times satellite is impractical. I prefer my cable access, but there are many times that I would like to know what is going on in my home state of Ohio, or watch the local sports TV Shows.Private Reply to April Diehl | | Jul 17, 2006 6:03 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology fo | # |
Tom Foale | | In theory you are correct, April. This is definitely Video on Demand.
However, many organisations do not and will not want this - for reasons to do with product, demand management, maximising revenues etc that have nothing to do with the content itself, they will want to control the regions that their content is available in. Viiv can do this, but I suspect Dan's system would struggle. You will almost certainly be able to do what you want though - it is all content in one huge region, the USA.Private Reply to Tom Foale | | Jul 17, 2006 1:51 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology fo | # |
Dn Garrihy | | April,
I am a member of a global organization to which membership is available to rich and poor irrespective of color, creed or race and which has some 120 million current members. An estimated ten million of them have made tapes of their utterings. Approximately 50 thousand of them are recorded on video. There are not more than 50 of them showing their videos on their web sites. All of them would have a vast audience - were there a vehicle that could carry their videos to that audience (as, for example, a certain German company is doing for books – free of charge).
I can provide every one of the 50,000 who are on video with an Internet TV channel that has the capability of retrieving and playing their videos; but here is the piece de resistance: I can have them available by LIVE web conference to the 120 million members at very frequent intervals to respond to questions on their views expressed on their videos. And that prospect excites me!
I am sure that you, like most people, hold membership in some organization, be it a local or a global one. Every organization from your local chess club to the United Nations is part of a global community just begging for a sensational platform that will give them a voice on their pet subjects. Internet TV - as you have so accurately described previously - is the only game in town. Count the number of organisations, religious, political, commercial and others that provide captive audiences for Internet TV and that will give you some idea of the masive market that is out there for these TV channels from among the countless number of organisations - not to mention others I have identified.
The fact that global audiences for general interest TV can be developed will also be obvious to you. Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 17, 2006 2:24 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology fo | # |
Dn Garrihy | | Tom,
Of course it is imperative that I not only keep up to speed with emerging technology (like Viiv) but that I both aquire it when necessary and re-engineer it when possible; for that reason alone I am interested in your technology and I will send you full details on our Internet TV channels in advance of the launch so that we can better cross-fertilise concepts, should you so desire.
Your reference to businesses wishing to limit the geographical reach of their advertising is valid but I do not expect to reach global market saturation in my life time. Those who further develop this media will achieve that.
I should mention also that the market is not limited to commercial users alone; it is, in fact, virtually unlimited. Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 17, 2006 2:38 pm | | re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology for the Internet - forecasted in 2 | # |
Dn Garrihy | | Ira,
The time has come when, due to time constraints, I must cease my contributions on the subject of Internet TV. I am deeply grateful to you for allowing me space to express my views on the subject.
I also want to thank all the contributors who have asked the probing questions that have helped me so much.
I will advise each one of you privately when the product is launched. In the interim I wish you all the best.
Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Jul 18, 2006 3:41 am | | re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology for the Internet - forecasted | # |
Ira Stoller | | Good luck and Godspeed to you, even though you don't believe in the concept. Private Reply to Ira Stoller | | Jul 18, 2006 4:31 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: Video as the next "breakthrough" technology for the Internet - forecas | # |
Ira Stoller | | Dn, I don't know if you're still monitoring this discussion, but I think you should be aware of this article which expresses some concerns about transmission and the service provider's ability to block same.
http://www.voip-news.com/news/features/voip-telco-blocking-071406/
The last sentence reads, "It's something to keep in mind as the era of video-over-broadband, with all the bandwidth and quality issues that implies, comes into being."Private Reply to Ira Stoller | | Oct 26, 2006 4:59 pm | | How's the breakthrough coming? | # |
Ken Hilving | | Having dinner in McNally's Pub in Dallas, a couple of us got to discussing past posts.
The question of the day is how's it going with Daniel McGarrihy's Million Dollar Medium and its breakthrough technology? Haven't heard much since July, and didn't find anything via Google. Any developements to share?Private Reply to Ken Hilving | | Nov 14, 2006 5:43 pm | | re: How's the breakthrough coming? | # |
Ira Stoller | | Hi Ken,
As I suspected he no longer visits RYZE. I've sent him a private email when your post appeared, but received no response. As discussed many times on this thread, I have serious doubts as to whether his project will ever see the light of day.Private Reply to Ira Stoller | | Nov 14, 2006 11:22 pm | | re: re: How's the breakthrough coming? | # |
Dn Garrihy | | Ira and Kenneth,
Glad to hear you have not forgotten about my Internet TV channel.
Thave been some new developments in our Internet TV channels in that it has spawned several new concepts which are listed below. The entire range of products are now described in some 25 channels and web sites which are taking quite some time to tweak as you can imagine. We have, however, completed or bought in the necessary technology to bring the products to market. I will, as previously advised, provide you with the domains of the above channels/sites as soon as we are ready to go.
The new concepts are:
1.TELE-VISION (INTERNET TV CHANNEL) : This system includes multiple Web conference screens which can be used to interview anyone, anywhere, anytime and on any subject. The conferences are recorded, archived. and played on the TV screen 24/7 Note: Anything that can be done on terrestrial TV can be done on thiese Internet TV channels.
2.TELE-FUSION (FUSING INTERNET TV WITH GLOBAL TERRESTRIAL TV): At a click of a button you can watch terrestrial TV from most countries in the world. You can choose from thousands of terrestrial TV channels in almost any number e. g. 50 or 100 or 1,000 channels. You can build permanent links to your chosen selection of channels from your Internet TV channel screen and charge an access fee to each one of them. Note: Channel owners permission is required to stream them to your Internet TV channel.
3.TELE-MAGAZINE: This facility includes text which is used to describe the content of videos. Photos are used in the normal way to lead into the story. Photos when clicked on immediately display videos describing the story. Note:
4.TELE-SOUND - INTERNET RADIO STATION: This device includes: A. Text: Text is used to summarize the news item. B. Sound: Each news item is linked to an audio clip This means you can chose what you want to hear - unlike radio where you have to listen to programmed features. Note: Recordings can be done offline with a web cam and the video function can be used to display text with sound.
5.TELE-SHOP: This channel includes multi-screen web conference system which can be used to stream live video from cameras placed strategically around your business premises to display your products, auctions, manufacturing processes, office staff at work, customers enjoying your gym and a host of other uses. You can also manipulate the cameras remotely from your cell 'phone; this is also the best security device you could use as crime figures drop dramatically where security cameras are in use. And you can view your premises or home remotely on your cell ‘phone. Note: Enhance your site by streaming live cameras from interesting places around the world on to your site's TV Screen.
6.TELE-PHOTO + VIDEO SITE : .Communicate your message in photos and text . Text is minimized in favor of communicating information in pictures (pictures speak more than 1,000 words). A default video plays 24/7; a link from it brings you to a list of video tittles of your choice which you can make with your web cam and upload from disc. Note: You can also harvest videos from the Internet with the permission of the owners.
7.TELE-BOOK: This is a tele-book site where summaries of the books published therein are provided by video.
8.TELENEWSPAPER: This is and online version of a newspaper. It is an amazing opportunity to set up a network of global newspapers.
9.TELE-PROPERTY: Visitors will be invited to upload videos describing their properties and may respond to queries from potential purchasers by using our web conference system.
10.. TELE-RECRUITMENT: Visitors will be invited to upload videos describing their work experience etc and may respond to queries from potential Employers by using our web conference system.
10.TELE-TALK: Get your friends together around your computer microphone, record your debates on any subject (no contentious material e. g. porn, terrorism etc. allowed) and upload them under the appropriate category - to this channel. 30 minute time limit on videos.
11.TELE-MESSAGING: Make videos to order with a web or video camera and:Archive them online for private viewing OR for public viewing as advertisements which you can sell. Dispatch to your own online community. Send confidential video emails from your own channel. Under construction.
12.TELE-SOURCING: The ultimate in Internet TV channel interactivity. Just web conference with us to find any product or service anywhere in the world and we will find it while you wait - using MDM's own global directories. Under construction.
14.TELE-TEXT: These web site also includes the use of the MDM super robot to build and revise them as required. Under construction.
Kenneth, the above information may best be assimilated in McNally's!!!
Dn. Garrihy Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Nov 15, 2006 10:19 am | | re: re: re: How's the breakthrough coming? | # |
Tom Foale | | Try this:
http://www.avinteractive.co.uk/Assets/Files/av11/Av1106_sharing.pdf
and
http://www.etherdigital.com/violinfactory/
It's a white-label service for global brands. Very impressive stuff. The nice thing is they get paid for the licences and service up front, not pennies for adverts or pimping limited premium content. No problems with copyright - the brands either own or commission the content, and the system has full download-to-burn - the first to be approved by Intel, Microsoft and one of the biggest premium content owners.
The Violin Factory video was part of a joint live demonstration to 9 of the biggest global brands with Intel and one of the big media communications agencies.Private Reply to Tom Foale | | Nov 15, 2006 5:19 pm | | re: re: re: re: How's the breakthrough coming? | # |
Ira Stoller | | You're right, Tom, very impressive, in spite of the fact that it's somewhat herky jerky with frequent pauses while content is downloading. However, I'm sure they can get around this kind of problem as the product matures. Impressive marketing program too. Private Reply to Ira Stoller | | Nov 17, 2006 7:20 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: How's the breakthrough coming? | # |
Dn Garrihy | | A step closer to delivering Internet TV channels to the world: www.three.co.uk/news/h3gnews/pressnewsview.omp?collcid=1019745742912&cid=1124817787959&index=1 Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Nov 17, 2006 7:25 pm | | re: re: re: re: How's the breakthrough coming? | # |
Dn Garrihy | | Very impressive indeed, Tom, but not interactive Internet TV and definitely not affordable for the average guy. Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Nov 17, 2006 9:22 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: How's the breakthrough coming? | # |
Tom Foale | | It's definitely very interactive, it's on-demand, it is delivered over broadband and it's free to the average guy to watch.
You're right though, it is definitely not free to post stuff on Miomni - however, it could be if one of the brand companies decides to pay for people to post their own content on their service. In that way it would be no different from YouTube. What would be different is if one of the brand companies decides to pay people for the most-watched content, which would tend to take both content and viewers away from YouTube.
If we separate the technology from the business model, the technology is pretty much the same. The big difference is that Miomni is a substitutional marketing business model that replaces other media spending by the big brands and promises to target a key market (yoof) better. The content is paid for by the brands out of their marketing budgets. It's business as usual, just a new channel to communicate with the customers and no change to the value chain required.
The standard VoD model is a substitutional one too, but it substitutes one delivery mechanism for another. The standard VoD model relies on the content owners, who normally licence their content for large amounts of cash (often paid up front) over and over again to different markets, to see an internet audience with no market boundary controls and little control over the delivery quality as a good opportunity for their premium content - and getting paid in revenue shares while risking piracy, when there is no evidence that a lot of consumers want to pay for content. So far, none have. What this model is missing is someone like a Warner or BSkyB - a content aggregator that buys content from owners and manages their delivery to the customer base. It's a risky business, as BSkyB will tell you, which is probably why no-one has taken on the role yet. Murdoch bet his entire business several times to acquire and retain the rights to UK premiership soccer.
YouTube is a new video business model, user-provided entertainment. Unfortunately it is not TV-quality because TV-quality requires a much more sophisticated set-up. How much that matters remains to be seen. It is very unlikely to attract content with high production values.
I don't understand your model yet - I don't know where videoconferencing leaves off and community publishing starts. Do you provide and pay the experts? How do you handle copyright issues? You call it a TV channel - how does it get to display on a TV?Private Reply to Tom Foale | | Nov 17, 2006 10:45 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: re: How's the breakthrough coming? | # |
Dn Garrihy | | Tom, By the simple expedient of recording web conferences e.g. interviews, etc it is possible to invite anyone, anywhere to participate in, for example, a debate and that is what I mean by "interactive". TV channels do just that except that one cannot call them at will and they cannot, therefore, be considered to be interactive.
Obviously it is also possible to play recorded conferences on a TV screen, thus, massive stocks of videos can be generated at virtually zero cost in this process (and copyright is not a problem).
Both the video conference screens and a TV screen are displayed on our Internet TV channels with zoom buttons attached to magnify the size of screens as required.
You may argue that web conferencing has not reached sufficiently high definition to produce top quality videos but:
1. Its improving all the time and we believe our second generation Internet TV channels will be a major improvement on the current one.
2. Just as in the music industry, many people acquiring Internet TV channels will build small video recording studios on to their homes for the purpose of recording debates, job seekers mock interviews and countless other activities which will change the way we communicate and advertise.
3. "Reality" TV, (which I dislike it intently) has demonstrated that it is possible for amateurs to produce good quality film which means that the average guy can use this new medium (though we will provide assistance in enhancing video if required).
Most importantly we can get this product on the market at a price that will be affordable to most people.
Bottom line: This is a new method of using existing technology for multiple purposes as described in my post above. And that is all I can reveal until we are ready to go!
Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Nov 18, 2006 12:23 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: How's the breakthrough coming? | # |
Tom Foale | | I understand the conferences and debates idea. They are interactive at the time they are created. The copyright issue will arise when people realise their opinions expressed in your conferences are valuable - they will often want to be paid to take part and could want control over where their opinions are heard - which you can either deal with or lose their valuable input.
Not sure about the 'TV screen displayed on our Internet TV channels' bit - do you mean you simulate a TV on your internet channel? What I meant was - how do you get your internet channel to the home TV set, a key step in the acceptability of VoD services? People in the industry talk about the 10ft (TV), 2ft (PC) and 1ft(mobile) interfaces.
I don't see people building video studios on their homes - I think very few people have the interest in creating high-production-value TV for free distribution.
I wish you luck with your launch!Private Reply to Tom Foale | | Nov 18, 2006 4:24 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: How's the breakthrough coming? | # |
Dn Garrihy | |
Tom, All of the points you make are valid and we have provided for them (in 30 web sites-cum-TV channels to date!) e.g.
1. Many people will access the live debates because they want to contribute to issues on which they want their opinions heard e.g. climate change (fact for some – myth for many and accurate information for few). Others will participate just to raise their public profiles (witness the number of celebrities who go to extraordinary lengths to achieve notoriety). YouTube gets millions of hits each week but can you even begin to imagine the number it would receive were it interactive? And can you visualize a situation were none of the videos carry copyright problems because they are all originals?
We live in an age when just about everyone has an opinion on everything (though more often than not the validity of our opinions is another issue) and for that reason we do not anticipate any shortage of contributors. We do not, therefore, expect copyright to become an issue for the vast majority of purchasers of these Internet TV channels.
Industry professionals who acquire these channels, however, may well pay their guests. And this is probably what you have in mind?
Incidentally, we will not manage any of these channels – it will be a matter for the purchasers to use them as they see fit. We will host them in an attempt to eliminate contentious material and provide the know-how to globalize them. And we project so many uses for them that we believe we can build a global market for them (the documenting of these is the reason for the two month delay in launching the product).
2. We see the advent of fixed fee mobile ‘phone broadband access to the Internet and similar current developments as steps that will encourage people to access Internet TV as an alternative to home TV. YouTube has advanced that trend enormously. Each purchaser of our TV channels will be a member of our Internet community. It has an easy-to-remember domain which means that visitors will be able to choose what to watch from an enormous number of categories of programs and advertising. Having said that, we plan to provide sales staff to the community who will sell programs to cable TV networks. It should be noted also, that Internet TV is becoming increasingly more acessable from home TV sets.
3. Many people with an interest in video already have some sort of make-shift video recording studios in their homes. Home garages are being converted to studios at a fast pace but mainly for the music industry. When Internet TV really takes off - and that will happen independently of our contribution – the growth of these studios will accelerate.
4. In relation to distribution some is free and some is not.
5. We will let you have a preview of our channels in one week to best describe how the screens display videos and video conferences
We have been using this product in our main businesses for the past year and it has produced significant savings in office space as most of our people now work from home, in travel because we use web conferencing to communicate with our people around the world and in many other areas. Independantly of that we have been able to project so many un-related uses for this product that we believe we can build new markets for Internet TV channels.
Thank you, Tom, for your encouragement
Private Reply to Dn Garrihy | | Dec 23, 2006 2:49 am | | Internet TV | # |
Dn Garrihy | | As promised recently here is a quick preview of our Internet TV: http://www.builditonline.net
For further details go to: http://www.firstinternettv.com/site
And for full details go to: http://www.firstinternettv.com There are some 40 sites linked to this which are at various stages of construction and numerous uses of our Internet TV are described in them.
An enormous amount of time has been invested in getting this material together and although its in a RAW STATE it should not be too difficult to follow the information trail. There is still much work to do and I will advise you all of the launch date.
I wish you all a great Christmas.
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