Watchwith. Find movies, TV shows matching your taste & watch online - Jinni. 15 Things we’d Love to See in New TV. So how will TV continue to evolve? What will the world of new television look like over the next few years? Here's our wishlist. For decades television was just a big box that sat in the corner of our living rooms. We watched it, we loved it, we talked about it. Some of us even worked in it. So how will TV continue to evolve? #1 An Apple TV Set For months people have been talking about the possibility of Apple revolutionising television in the same way they did for music, telephony and personal computing with the iPod, iPhone and iPad. But just forget all the speculation for a minute. Likelihood: HIGH. When? #2 Ultraviolet Becoming Backwards-Compatible The theory behind Ultraviolet is pretty straightforward: buy a compatible DVD / Blu-ray or TV show / movie and you can upload it to your digital library in the Cloud.
Likelihood: VERY LOW. When? #3 Wireless Electricity Likelihood: VERY HIGH. When? #4 Foldable Screens Likelihood: VERY HIGH #5 True TV-Everywhere Likelihood: HIGH When? When? When? Zeebox & How Changing One Word in an Advertising Campaign Can Make Millions. Zeebox’s new ‘click-to-buy’ functionality gives marketers second-by-second knowledge of how effective ads are It's been a busy few months for zeebox, the new social TV platform co-created by Anthony Rose.
The app went live in October 2011, announced a partnership with Channel 4 in November, sold a 10% equity stake to Sky in January and has now launched an interactive click-to-buy service. What is this? How does it work? And how can marketers use zeebox data to gauge the efficacy of their ads? I tested the new functionality yesterday lunchtime and spoke to Rose to get more details. The first thing to say about click-to-buy is that it's a very simple concept. Here's an example from yesterday when 'This Morning' was on. Click the zeetag and an overlay displays content directly from the advertisers website. And here's the Wiltshire Farm Foods site - again overlaid within zeebox. So how is it done? Who controls the click-through destination? And how can this technology be used in the future?