Convergent technology<\/p>\n
I read in your Sunday edition, March 18, page 12, a report by
\nSri Ramadani titled ANteve begins airing 'Boleh Contest', which
\nwrongly said the program organized by bolehmail.com was the first
\nprogram in Indonesia to combine television and the Internet,
\nallowing viewers to communicate with participants via email.
\nPerhaps The Jakarta Post, which usually is strong in tracking
\nlocal developments in technology, did not have an adequate
\nopportunity to do its research carefully before reporting this,
\nand hence I am obliged to provide the Post with some relevant
\ninformation that will give your readers an accurate and correct
\nperspective on what is really meant by the term \"combining
\nmultiple media\" for providing content, and how the industry is
\nreally developing in Indonesia today.<\/p>\n
Our company Kemana (www.kemana.com), in association with PT
\nJaring Data Interaktif, is actually the first company in
\nIndonesia to innovatively use television, Internet and print
\nmedia for its music program KeNada Workshop bersama Gilang
\nRamadhan. This is a two-hour program on Quick Channel that
\ninterviews famous musicians on techniques for playing music.<\/p>\n
Viewers can log on to a chatroom at
\nhttp:\/\/kenadaonline.com\/workshop and communicate live with the
\nhost and the guest musician while the show is on. In addition to
\nthis, Internet users can view the television program on their PCs
\nvia streaming video, as well as browse information relevant to
\nthe program. This is a true example of combining the Internet and
\ntelevision, and not just sending email to participants, which no
\ndoubt is a significant improvement over existing practices but a
\nprimitive way of utilizing convergent technologies.<\/p>\n
This weekly program was first aired on Dec. 16, 2000, and then
\nevery Saturday starting on Feb. 3, 2001, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
\nThe program is ongoing, scheduled for the next six months,
\nfeaturing over 22 famous musicians and several other bands and
\nartists.<\/p>\n
Readers wishing to learn more about media convergent
\ntechnology can see this program during the week via several
\nreruns on Quick Channel and I-Music Channel, available on
\nIndovision and KabelVision or on their PCs, with, of course, a
\nbroadband Internet connection. As proof of the uniqueness of this
\nprogram format, several leading music industry companies in
\nIndonesia are already supporting this venture.<\/p>\n
I hope this information proves useful to your technology savvy
\nreaders, who no doubt will be extremely pleased and proud to know
\nthat there are Indonesian companies today working very hard to
\nsuccessfully develop cutting-edge convergent programming. I
\nbelieve that such concepts are still on the drawing boards of
\neven world giants of convergent technology such as AOL Time
\nWarner.<\/p>\n
SACHIN GOPALAN<\/p>\n
Technical Adviser<\/p>\n
PT Jasa Cita<\/p>\n
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