Kyle Jay’s Weblog

Person 1: female 24

Person 2: male 23

Person 3: male 27

Communication

If you had the opportunity to communicate through your television set what would be same of the things you would do (talk – who to, email, text, video chat)?

Person 1: Call overseas, to check emails and surf the net because the screen is bigger

Person 2: I suppose I would you it for voice calls. Maybe use it for working on group when we couldn’t get all together, watch it for sports events and see friends reactions

Person 3: I would use it to play games against people, cant really watch TV and communicate at the same time would be too hard wouldn’t communicate

If you had the opportunity to talk and see your friends and family on the TV while watching a television program would you use it?

Person 1: Yes, I wouldn’t miss out on shows. Very handy

Person 2: Yeah, I think so, would be good for the footy if you cant get around to your friends place

Person 3: Nah I wouldn’t do it at the same time because I would be watching the program, maybe if u had it on during the ads, like it pops up during the ads and you can talk to someone

What about events such as sport and concerts, would it be more useful? What other programs would it be more suited to?

Person 1: Nah, wouldn’t do it for sports, don’t really watch sports. Would use it more for soaps and Australian idol. The shows I like I would talk to them during the ads

Person 2: Sports events, If you could watch a DVD and other people could see it at the same time, would expand a lot more, would use it the most for sporting events though. Maybe Australian Idol nd those programs and just creates conversation

Person 3: Ah yeah maybe that could be good, game shows, quiz shows,

Have ever phoned someone directly after watching a TV program to talk about it?

Person 1: Maybe when I was younger, around 16 I might have but now I don’t. Once or twice if anything

Person 2: Nah I haven’t actually, but if have been on phone and the TV is on I might mention it

Person 3: hmmm…Only when there has been someone on the program that I have known and also ring up and say have u seen such and such on that show

Sharing

If you had the opportunity to send a television program/ad/event through your TV, which you just watched and think your friends or family, might like, would you?

Person 1: Yeah for sure, that would be good. There have been heaps of times where I have seen a funny ad and told my friends and family about it but haven’t been able to show them

Person 2: yeah I would do that, I might have sent messages while something on TV is on that they might like, letting them know

Person 3: Yeah that’s cool, that’s a good idea, recommended programs

What do you think of sharing photos and videos via television while sitting on the couch by just using the television remote control?

Person 1: Yeah that would be a good idea. Say that there would be nothing on TV then it would be a lot more useful. Still being able to watch programs while doing it would be good to.

Person 2: Yeah I think that would be really good, be a good way if connecting family and friends that live further away

Person 3: Yeah that’s a good idea, movies, holidays snaps, so u could just turn it on and see everyone’s holiday snaps

Would it be useful being able to access someone else’s TV recordings via the TV?

Person 1: God you have to have privacy somewhere, you cant just start to hacking into other people televisions. You would have to be willing to share.

Person 2: Yeah it would be good but how would you control the access of the content and the share folder and files

Person 3: Yeah that could be useful. Yeah u would want to have a public folder that you would want to share, file sharing I guess

With previous episodes of a TV series being stored on the web to view on your computer would you like this feature to be available on your television?

Person 1: Yeah because you wouldn’t have to watch it on a little computer screen. Can watch it on a big screen

Person 2: Yeah I would match rather watch it on my TV rather on my computer, so I can go through the TV and watch want I want

Person 3: Yeah, like on demand TV so you could watch what you want to watch when you want to watch it. That would be a good feature

Social Networks

Would ratings on the TV from people who have watched programs help you in deciding what to watch?

Person 1: Nah not really, I would still check it out weather or not it had good ratings or bad ratings

Person 2: Nah not really, would be interesting to see what other people thought of it but I would still watch, might check out something, which had bad ratings

Person 3: Yeah that would be definitely useful, yeah if you wanted to watch a movie at night and go through the reviews, it would definitely help.

Do you think you would communicate or develop, join groups with people that have similar interests in what types of things you watch on TV(people you have never met before)? Is there potential in social networks on the TV set?

Person 1: I might join a group but I would never take it any further. Nah I wouldn’t communicate with people I don’t know. Maybe if you had no friends and you were single it could be handy

Person 2: I would go as far as joining groups for shows I might like, but I wouldn’t try and communicate with anyone in the group. I think I would try that on the Internet. Yeah I can see the potential of a social networks on people joining a group about televisions program, would be a good way of television shows to get feedback on what people did and didn’t like about the show

Person 3: No probably not, wouldn’t join a discussion group or anything like that. The idea of what other people are watching and the idea of the most popular shows but the idea of communication with them no.Yeah I think there would be probably would be potential , would become like a fac book program, but I guess that’s a bigger step to make making your computer a TV or your TV a computer. In the future your looking at a smaller transition between the two

Would it be useful to see what your friends are watching on TV?

Person 1: Yeah that would be really good, see if they were really fans of TV shows.

Person 2: I suppose it would be interesting if your into checking up on people but I probably wouldn’t want people seeing what I was watching, I don’t know how I would feel about that

Person 3: Yeah that would be good.

Other comments

Person 3: In terms of communication, I could definitely see the sharing as being pretty huge. I don’t know how socializing would go on tv. If you find a way of integrating the watching the tv and communication would give it more appeal. Weather channel or sport option would be good, I would want to use it to find out information for sport.