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Problem Statement
My project centers on the problem that an effective news interface for broadband iTV platforms has not yet been developed in the United States . Technologically savvy young people no longer care to obtain information in traditional news format. They do not want to rely on the morning paper on their doorstep or the dinnertime newscast for up-to-date information; in fact, they want their news on demand, when it works for them. As a result of these changing habits, news organizations are rolling out new media technologies. These changes allow users more options to access news which includes how, when, and where the information is to be received.
Furthermore, the dramatic increase in the amount of news content available has created the problem of finding what is actually of interest to the individual viewer. It has become harder to keep up with all the news information available on the Internet. When people find a valuable news site, it takes work to keep up with developments they want to follow. They have to make an ongoing effort to regularly visit the site. Internet portals such as Yahoo address this problem by allowing users to create personalized pages that contain only information that is of interest to them. Yahoo users can gather content from multiple news sources across the Web and read it in their My Yahoo page. However, there is no effective news interface that gathers TV-quality video from multiple sources. |
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