Future of Internet Television

Group Members:

• Simon Liu
  
• Zhikai Xu
  
• Zhen Ni
  
• Tsoe Loong Li
  
• Brian Chiu
  

Research Questions

BASIC

• What is web2.0? Why web2.0? What is Internet TV?
  
• What is the difference between the current Internet and Web2.0?
  

Current Situation

• What is the current technology in TV industry?
  
• When TV programs are produced, how can they be posted to public? How does the workflow works for broadcasting the films to the public?
  
• What are the stakeholders? Who are the key players of “normal TV”?
  

General Idea

• Why do we need Internet TV?
  
• What’s the difference between normal TV and Internet TV?/How does Internet work?
  
• What kind of new innovations had been made in the era of Internet TV?
  
• Who are the key players of “Internet TV”?
  

Marketing analysis

• SWOT analysis normal TV and Internet TV?
  
• Are people ready to accept Internet TV?
  
• How large is the current market? what are most potential audience’s ages? locations? their expectations?
  
• What is the bottleneck in the current web technology to realize internet tv?
  

Profit/expenses

• Is possible to explore other profit sources?
  
• How about future profit/expense?
  
• Interactive advertising
  

Media mix

• how will TV be connected with other medias, like blog, cell phone, HDTV, digital TVs recorders/ digital video recorders(PVR/DVR) incorporated with Internet TV?

Driving Forces

• Government control
• IP
• PVR (TiVo)
• Media Mix
• Payment
• Internet Technology
• Advertising
• User expectation
• Source of profit changing

System Diagram

Handmade Messy


Restructure

The Scenarios

Scenario Making

Scenario 1: Internet TV with use of the traditional distributor

Scenario 2: Internet TV dominantion

Scenario 3: Co-exist

Scenario 4: Remain the same