It’s amazing to read, but the same organization that only last year lauded “Everybody Loves Raymond” with “Outstanding Comedy Series” is now recognizing Sling Media, Visible World, TiVo, Moxi, Revver, and other new digital media companies with technology-related Emmys. This is great to see, as it’s important sign that the whole industry is moving forward to embrace such technologies and services.
Here’s the entire list:
- The Emmy Award for Pioneering Development of On Screen Display (OSD) for Setup, Control and Configuration of Consumer Television Equipment:
- RCA
- The Emmy Award for Streaming Media Architectures and Components:
- Microsoft
- Adobe
- Real
- Apple
- The Emmy Award for Pioneering Development for Combining Multiple Transport Streams Which Are Already Encoded, Using Rate-Shaping and Statistical Re-multiplexing:
- Terayon Communication Systems
- The Emmy Award for Development and Implementation of Automatically Assembled Dynamic Customized TV Advertising:
- Visible World
- Weather Channel
- The Emmy Award for Technology Advances in Serial Digital Interface Solutions, Enabling Over 20 Years of Seamless Studio and Broadcast Infrastructure migration:
- Gennum Corporation
- The Emmy Award for Privately Owned and Operated International Satellite Company Primarily for International Video Services:
- Rene Anselmo, PanAmSat
- The nominees for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Synchronous Enhancement of Original Television Content are:
- DirecTV Interactive Sports – DirecTV
- HSN Shop by Remote – HSN
- NBC Olympics Now – BIAP Systems, Inc.
- The nominees for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Non-Synchronous Enhancement of Original Television Content are:
- CNN Enhanced – CNN/Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
- Fantasy Football Tracker – BIAP Systems, Inc.
- Passions Vendetta – NBC.com
- Sopranos: Crime. Organized – Deep Focus
- The Cultivated Life: Thomas Jefferson & Wine – NetBlender
- The-N.com Video Mixer – The N
- The nominees for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Creation of Non-Traditional Programs or Platforms are:
- Entriq, Inc. Mobile Technology – Entriq, Inc.
- Switched Broadcast is Transforming TV – Big Band Networks
- The Slingbox – Sling Media
- Vid-Wave – Boxx Communications
- The nominees for Outstanding Innovation and Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Best Use of Personal Media Display and Presentation Technology are:
- Screen 3 – Hill & Knowlton/Motorola
- Sectional Navigation Architecture – GoTV Networks
- Xross Media Box – SONY
- The nominees for Outstanding Innovation and Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Best Use of “On Demand” Technology Over Private (closed) Networks are:
- Guided TV – ABC On Demand – Disney – ABC Television Group
- Moxi Adelphie On Demand Browser – Digeo
- Time Warner Cable’s Start Over – Time Warner Cable, Concurrent Computer Corp., Big Band Networks, Harmonic Inc., Scientific Atlanta.
- The nominees for Outstanding Innovation and Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Best Use of “On Demand” Technology Over the Public (open) Internet are:
- ABC.com Full Episode Streaming Player – Disney – ABC Television Group
- AOL Music’s Top 11 Countdown Show – AOL, LLC
- GameTap – GameTap, Turner Broadcasting
- Revver.com – Revver
- Stim TV – NPOWR
- Vongo – Starz
- The nominees for Outstanding Innovation and Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Best Use by Commercials in Creation and Use in Non Traditional Platforms and Technologies are:
- ABC.com Full Episode Streaming Player – Disney-ABC Television Group
- Ravenstoke – Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc.
- TiVo Interactive Advertising Platform – TiVo Inc.
More from the official Emmy site here. Conspicuously absent are YouTube, DivX (codec and/or Stage6), MSN Soapbox, and other online plays. Maybe next year…
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