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TV in 2020: The Evolution of Advertising (Episode 4)

Documentary.net staff — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:08:22 +0000

Episode 4 looks at how changes to the television platform are creating new opportunities for advertisers to grow deeper relationships with consumers. 2020 Vision: Future of TV is an industry initiative dedicated to exploring how television will evolve over the next ten years. In the second episode, the film investigates the power of the audience and the impact they now having on broadcasters and advertisers. The audience has always been what matters. But now, they are closer than ever to becoming part of the story.

TV in 2020: A New Dimension (Episode 3)

Documentary.net staff — Sun, 01 May 2011 08:01:19 +0000

Episode 3 investigates how 3D and other technologies are truly transforming the viewing experience and what this will mean for advertisers in the future.

TV in 2020: The Power of Audiences (Episode 2)

Documentary.net staff — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:59:58 +0000

2020 Vision: Future of TV is an industry initiative dedicated to exploring how television will evolve over the next ten years. In the second episode, the film investigates the power of the audience and the impact they now having on broadcasters and advertisers. The audience has always been what matters. But now, they are closer than ever to becoming part of the story. To kick start the conversation, the filmmakers have commissioned a six-part documentary series seeking the opinions of industry experts and pioneers exploring the future of the television platform. The films provide unprecedented access to business leaders, industry visionaries and production pioneers from Australia and around the world. The webisodes investigate the evolution of television and how this will impact audiences and advertisers in the future: · How technology is changing the way we interact and engage with TV · The power of the audience · Future programming trends · The impact of the changing landscape on advertisers · What will TV look like in 2020?

TV in 2020: The Multi-Screen Experience (Episode 1)

Documentary.net staff — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:30:42 +0000

2020 Vision: Future of TV is an industry initiative dedicated to exploring how television will evolve over the next ten years. To kick start the conversation, the filmmakers have commissioned a six-part documentary series seeking the opinions of industry experts and pioneers exploring the future of the television platform. The films provide unprecedented access to business leaders, industry visionaries and production pioneers from Australia and around the world. The webisodes investigate the evolution of television and how this will impact audiences and advertisers in the future: · How technology is changing the way we interact and engage with TV · The power of the audience · Future programming trends · The impact of the changing landscape on advertisers · What will TV look like in 2020? In the first episode of the six-part documentary series, the visionaries discuss how television viewing is migrating across multiple screens.

Living prehistoric animals

Documentary.net staff — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:51:01 +0000

A German research team recently returned from an expedition to the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia. It made some spectacular discoveries: organisms that have existed for more than 65 million years, and have hardly changed since the age of the dinosaurs. The team discovered some of these living fossils in the shallow reefs, others in deeper hollows using a remote-controlled submarine. This enabled them to compare living members of the nautilus family with their extinct ancestors. The research has opened a window onto the past, with views of geological and evolutionary history.

Exploring the Deep 4 – Corals in the Cold

Documentary.net staff — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:13:48 +0000

Marine geologist Claudia Wienberg studies animals whose existence was unknown until a few years ago - cold water corals that live in the cooler regions of the Atlantic or the Mediterranean. Like their tropical relatives, cold water corals can form gigantic reefs which serve as habitats for many different ocean animals and plants. For some researchers they are fascinating for other reasons as well: because the growth of the reefs is influenced by environmental conditions, their structure can provide information about the climate in the past. Extreme changes in the environment can be deadly; in more than 20 percent of the reefs, the corals have died out. In the course of her expeditions Claudia Wienberg made a remarkable discovery. In the Gulf of Cadiz off the Spanish coast she found giant fields of coral remains. Now she is devoting part of her research to finding out the causes of the coral death. Her initial hypothesis is that over the past centuries the water temperature and nutrient levels have changed drastically. The results of Wienberg's study may help predict the fate of the living cold water corals found off the Norwegian or Irish coasts.

Exploring the Deep 3 – Traces of Climate Change

Documentary.net staff — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:09:22 +0000

MARUM scientists Ursula Röhl and Alex Wülbers are investigating what the ocean floor has to tell us about the climate in the past. In this report they talk about an especially challenging expedition; how with a drilling ship they navigated the Arctic ice to the Lomonosov Ridge, an underwater shelf that extends through the northern polar region. There, where the once supposedly "eternal ice cap" has begun to disappear, drillings can now be carried out deep into the sea bed. The cores of sediment the scientists drill out of the ocean floor are kept in cold storage at MARUM. The collection plays a central role in the IODP project. The two researchers tell us about the fascinating information they are trying to extract from the deep-sea core samples.

Exploring the Deep 2 – The Secret of Underwater Asphalt

Documentary.net staff — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:04:41 +0000

Florence Schubotz is a geochemist at MARUM. She studies a very special habitat in the Gulf of Mexico. There at depths of 3,000 meters large areas of the sea floor are covered with swathes of asphalt. This material originates in the petroleum deposits beneath the sea bed. As hydrocarbons leak out through cracks in the sea floor, lighter components rise up to the water surface, the cooled, denser components remain on the seabed, leaving a solid mass of asphalt. The result is a submarine landscape that resembles a cooled volcanic lava field. Inhospitable as it may seem, these formations are home to a unique community of organisms. The marine researcher takes Tomorrow Today on a journey to underwater worlds that have never been seen before.

Exploring the Deep 1 – Life under the Sea

Documentary.net staff — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:59:21 +0000

Heiko Sahling is a biologist and deep sea geoscientist at the MARUM Research Center. The area he studies is in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Pakistan. There, at depths down to 3,000 meters, something fascinating is happening. Natural gas is emerging from the sea bed, to produce a surreal world of millions of tiny bubbles, which has already spurred the fancy of science fiction authors. In these exotic surroundings, the scientist has discovered both new animal species and communities and new geological truths. But the main questions that drive him are concerned with the methane gas emitted here. How much is emitted, how does it affect the biological world of the deep sea, and how much reaches the surface to enter the atmosphere? That is also relevant to climate researchers, because methane is a major greenhouse gas that increases global warming. Heiko Sahling takes Tomorrow Today viewers on an expedition on the METEOR research vessel. He tells us about life on board, about burning ice and about organisms that no one has seen before.