[itvt] Interview: Steve Tranter, Director of Interactive Delivery, NDS Americas
By admin | May 18, 2007
As director of interactive delivery for NDS Americas, Steve Tranter is based in the company’s Southern California office, where he heads up its Interactive Delivery group. In this recent, wide-ranging interview with [itvt]’s Tracy Swedlow, he discusses NDS’s interactive TV games strategy, which, among other things, sees it working with broadcasters to develop branded games that are designed to keep viewers tuned to their channels; its Xtreamplay platform, which uses the DVR hard drive to enable video-rich games, advertising, and other interactive applications; new features that it is incorporating into its MediaHighway middleware, including peer-to-peer capabilities; the new version of its Synamedia Metro IPTV platform, which is currently in trials with SES AMERICOM; its efforts to develop a next-generation EPG for HDTV; how it is working with chip vendors to ensure that their future chips will support the interactive TV services that are being conceptualized today; and much more.
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Saint Augustine
By | January 1, 1970
When I was a graduate student at Cornell, Saint Augustine wasn’t required reading. Years later I became responsible for teaching the Winter quarter of a freshman class at Stanford, where the books were selected from a "Core Reading List". I somewhat reluctantly put Saint Augustine’s Confessions on the list. The structure of the Core List was such that I couldn’t get by with Descartes, Hume and Locke. I set about getting up to speed on Saint Augustine.
What an interesting philosopher he turned out to be! And an
interesting man, too. Set aside his historical importance — the fact
that he above all others brought together the Greek and Hebrew aspects
of Christianity, that his work got Arianism, Pelagianism and
Mannicheanism condemned as heresies, and that, as many think, he is
responsible for many of the more unfortunate aspects of Christianity,
such as the low status of women, the negative attitude towards sex and
other enjoyable bodily […]
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Why Music Matters: Open Thread!
By | January 1, 1970
posted by Ken Taylor
I’m in the airport at Tucson. I’m listening online to our episode on “Why Music Matters” which we recorded in front of live audience at a locale in San Francisco. David Harrington, of the world famous Kronos Quartet is our guest. Since my flight is about to board, I won’t have time to listen at length. And I’ve been too wrapped up in the conference to blog about the topic. But I thought it might be fun just to open up an entry to comments from listeners about the show and the topic. I’ll add my own two cents worth in a separate entry when I get some time –hopefully later this week.
For now, comments on the episode from listeners are welcome. Post away!
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Work and the Self
By | January 1, 1970
posted by Ken Taylor
Today’s episode was on Work. Our guest was Al Gini from Loyola University of Chicago. He’s a philosopher by trade, the author of a number of books about work and the self, and the resident philosopher at WBEZ public radio in Chicago.
The episode was recorded a couple of months ago, back in late October, in front of a live, large and lively audience of students and faculty at Centenary College in Shreveport Louisiana. We were at Centenary for the better part of a week. We not only recorded today’s episode there, but we also broadcast an episode on Philosophy and Literature live from Centenary’s college radio station, KSCL, which has the singular distinction of airing our show twice per week. We also did a couple of other public events […]
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Rename that Radio Show??
By | January 1, 1970
posted by Ken Taylor
Believe it or not, program directors, the gate-keepers of public radio, almost universally hate ‘Philosophy Talk’ — whatever they think of Philosophy Talk. They hate both the ‘talk’ part of our name and the ‘Philosophy’ part of our name. But they particularly hate the combination of ‘Philosophy’ and ‘Talk’. They hate our name so much that some even cite it as a reason for not putting us on the air.
Because we get this a lot, we’ve been thinking about changing the name. We’re just starting to brainstorm about possible new names. We’re thinking about having a “Rename that Radio Program” contest on the air and via our blog and our website in order to involve our listeners in this potential rebaptism.
What’s in a name, you say? […]
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Political Correctness and the Speech Fashion War
By | January 1, 1970
posted by Ken Taylor
It’s been awhile since I’ve done this — awakened at a god-awful hour on Sunday morning, to write a blog about an upcoming show. I hope I’m lucid.
Today’s show is about the political correctness. Our guest is Leonard Steinhorn, author of a rousing defense of the baby boom generation, to which I proudly belong, called The Greater Generation. According to Steinhorn we baby boomers were the leading edge of a great sea change for the better in America. Our age cohort almost single-handedly ended racism, sexism, and homophobia. We brought down corrupt and mendacious presidents. We ended a pointless and forlorn war. By elevating the sanctity and fragility of the environment to national consciousness, we brought to heel a kind of anything goes capitalism that saw our lakes and streams and air as just […]
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What We’ve Been Up To, lately!
By | January 1, 1970
posted by Ken Taylor
Obviously, this blog hasn’t been buzzing with activity recently. That’s mainly because life and work have been incredibly, incredibly busy for both John and me. And it seems harder and harder to get our on-air guests to take us up on our invitations to guest blog. So much to do, so little time to do it! I’m sure you understand. But I hope we can do better in the coming months.
I can already see a new New Year’s resolution coming. I will blog on a more regular basis.
Just to get back in practice, I thought I would write not so much of a philosophical blog entry, but an entry about about the recent comings and goings of the Philosophy Talk crew and about some things that are on the […]
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Philosophy Talk Holiday Treats Coming Soon!
By | January 1, 1970
On Monday, November 26th, just in time for the holidays, we at Philosophy Talk will offer our listeners some holiday treats, including:
THE COMPLETE PHILOSOPHY TALK
Starting Monday and until the end of the 2007, you will be able to purchase The Complete Philosophy Talk , the entire archive of Philosophy Talk to date — all 142 (and counting) episodes — for the price of $129.95. That works out to about 90 cents/episode.
Buy it for yourself! Or give the gift of thought!
A perfect holiday treat for your philosophically inclined friend, offspring, parent, or significant other!
EXCLUSIVE TELECONFERENCE
Purchase either The Complete Philosophy Talk for the bargain price of $129.95 or a Philosophy Talk Annual Subscription for the low, low price of $1.35/episode between Monday, November 27th and December 31, 2007 and receive […]
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Holiday Treats Coming!
By | January 1, 1970
On Monday, November 26th, just in time for the holidays, we at Philosophy Talk will offer our listeners some holiday treats, including:
THE COMPLETE PHILOSOPHY TALK
Starting Monday and until the end of the 2007, you will be able to purchase the complete archive of Philosophy Talk to date, all 142 (and counting) episodes for the price of $129.95. That works out to about 90 cents/episode.
Buy it for yourself. Or give the gift of thought, to your philosophically inclined friend, offspring, parent, or significant other.
EXCLUSIVE TELECONFERENCE
Purchase either The Complete Philosophy Talk for $129.95 or a Philosophy Talk Annual Subscription for the low, low price of $1.35/episode between Monday, November 27th and December 31, 2007 and receive for either the purchaser or the gift recipient, an invitation to an exclusive on-line teleconference […]
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