Press Releases

December 2005 - Posts

• Metadata Becomes Micro-Personal

  As Electronic Program Guides (EPGs) begin to capitalize on improvements in search, behavior prediction, and distributed computing, the importance of metadata - that is, data that describes other data - will become critical. According to TDG's Program Guides at the Crossroads: The IPG Gets Personal, as today's grid-style EPGs evolve to multiplatform/multisystem Personal Entertainment Guides (PEGs), the form and amount of metadata provided by programmers will greatly influence the ease with which consumers search and identify entertainment content. ... Posted Dec 20 2005, 09:03 PM by The Diffusion Group

• 2006: The Year the Program Guide Begins to Get Personal

  2006 will see the emergence of a new class of video guide - the Personal Entertainment Guide or PEG. According to Program Guides at the Crossroads: The IPG Gets Personal, TDG's latest report on the evolving digital media market, the PEG will capitalize on many of the techniques pioneered on the web in the areas of search, behavior prediction, and distributed computing. The PEG will thus be more attuned to the viewer's preferences and capable of spanning a multitude of consumer devices, both stationary and portable. As a result, global licensing revenue from standard guides will decline to $356 million in 2010, while PEG licensing revenue will grow to $1.4 billion in the same time period.s... Posted Dec 10 2005, 08:19 PM by Colin Dixon Filed under: Colin Dixon, Personal Entertainment Guide, place-shifting, time-shifting