Developer Competition – Winners and Winnings
A look at ten perspectives
Step right up and take a look! We’re pleased to see you’re interested and are happy to give you a quick look behind the scenes of the Developer Competition. Before the winners of the first round retired to convert their concepts into prototypes, they offered us a few insights into their visions and projects. We’ll take you inside their creative thinking caps and you can create your own idea of what the future of television has in store.
A victor’s smile isn’t enough for us – we want to see you smiling too. So take part in the Viewer Competition, rate the entries with up to five points and maybe win one of three T-Home Entertain packages.
The Future from a Developer's Perspective...
Networked World
Status: Participant |
Creambots Germany |
Come closer while watching TV. Viewers "meet" friends and acquaintances, share content and make new contacts. Via feeds shared interests are discovered and new interests are stimulated. Viewers form communities and communities extend their network. |
www.creambots.com |
Community Game
Status: Participant |
Digicast Germany |
Viewers in front of different screens become opponents in a common game. In the Massive Multiplayer Game the viewer takes part in the game directly with his remote control and can influence objects on the screen jointly with other players. |
www.digicast.com |
Interactive Platform
Status: Participant |
Partec Brazil |
Connecting personal interests: Users form communities, meet on an interactive platform, generate and share content, chat and are entertained - jointly instead of alone on the sofa. |
www.partecweb.com.br |
Entertainment - Live and On Demand
Status: Participant |
frog design Germany |
Entertainment and communication are no longer linked to terminal devices. All functions are available swiftly and simply via a convergent media and communication system. Live TV, video on demand, recordings, news, personal communication and audio are available at any time. |
www.frogdesign.de |
Travel and Language Portal
Status: Participant |
meta.morph Germany |
Users can take virtual tours to the end of the Earth, take a flexible briefing on geographical areas and at the same time practice exercises in and study hints on the language of the country in question. |
www.meta-morph.tv |
The Join-In Format
Status: Participant |
broad|Support GmbH Germany |
More than just viewing: In interactive dancing, shopping and socialising, the user becomes a part of what happens on TV, and what happens on TV becomes a part of the viewer's life. |
 www.broadsupport.tv |
Superbly Recorded
Status: Participant |
Reignsoft
Hungary |
Viewers needn’t look; they will find. Preferred TV content is filtered out of the current programmes, marked as relevant and, if required, it can be recorded automatically. |
www.reignsoft.hu |
Programme Recommen-dations
Status: Participant |
Tzipory, Geva, Dayan
Israel |
Television off the mainstream beat: On the basis of personal preferences, TV reviews and friends’ recommendations individual TV content recommendations are generated and automatically fed to the viewer’s list of recommended viewing. |
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Family Network
Status: Participant |
3-frogs
Netherlands |
The user’s personal social network on the move: The user can share with family members relevant content such as news, photos and videos across media – Internet, TV and the mobile – and update a joint calendar. |
www.3-frogs.com |
Independence of Time and Place
Status: Participant |
Trenfield / Regner
Switzerland/Austria |
By combining the interactive TV and Internet media, users are enabled to access and retrieve their preferred content and information at any time and place without a break in either their media or their entertainment. |
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"There can only be one" – The Next Step
The ten winners receive 50,000 euros in prize money and the chance to make their concept reality in the next round together with Deutsche Telekom. In the coming weeks they will develop their prototypes of the television of the future and present them to the jury. The jury will select three finalists, each of whom will receive 100,000 euros in prize money. Then come the Finals: the last three develop their applications on Deutsche Telekom's IPTV platform, then present their work one last time to the jury. The winner will receive 200,000 euros, and the future of television will become reality in a flash.
