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lrivera
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07 Feb 2006 12:52 AM |
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Please find below a link to one of the most interesting insights I have seen about the future of the media industry. The presentation is very good (you should download the video) but the transcripts of both speeches give a reasonable idea of what was said.
Mark Pesce explores how P2P technology has (not is) changed the rules of the game and describes a new possible model with producers financed by advertising agencies instead of big media companies.
The second link (video) requieres eMule but is not copyrighted leading by example in what he refers to as the hyperdistribution paradigma. The presentation can also be downloaded from the site with Bittorrent (another P2P freeware application)
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html
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ebedell
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11 Mar 2006 1:45 AM |
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Online Video Goes Mainstream, Sparking an Industry Land Grab
[from the Wall Street Journal]
"Once, producers of films, TV shows and video material relied on other big companies — broadcast networks, cable systems — to get shows in front of an audience. Now, these new forms of distribution could turn anyone into a producer with a nearly endless array of possible outlets....Fearful of being cut out and worried about piracy, big media companies are starting to embrace online distribution....Distributors...are eyeing the promise of advertising tied to online video content."
http://www.freepress.net/news/13991
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ebedell
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11 Mar 2006 9:47 PM |
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As Internet TV Aims at Niche Audiences, the Slivercast Is Born
[from New York Times]
"In the last six months, major media companies have received much attention for starting to move their own programming online, whether downloads for video iPods or streaming programs that can be watched over high-speed Internet connections.
Perhaps more interesting — and, arguably, more important — are the thousands of producers whose programming would never make it into prime time but who have very dedicated small audiences. It's a phenomenon that could be called slivercasting."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/business/yourmoney/12sliver.html/partner/rssnyt
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lrivera
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13 Mar 2006 5:15 PM |
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Interesting articles... it seems we have some early adopters!Lets see what happens next, I would bet by this time next year we already have a couple of "success stories" around
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ebedell
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16 Mar 2006 9:40 PM |
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TV Industry Tries To Blunt Web's Impact
[From The Wall Street Journal -- requires paid subscription]March 16, 2006
The Web is obliterating the network of invisible fences and geographic limitations that the TV business has built its business model around. Now, broadcasters are trying new technical and legal tricks to fight back
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ebedell
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16 Mar 2006 9:45 PM |
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AOL Starts Online TV Service To Compete With Google, Apple
March 16, 2006"America Online Inc. launched its new service -- In2TV -- in the fast-growing market for online video programming -- a television network that shakes the dust off classic television shows and streams them to viewers, with commercials, free of charge."
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ebedell
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lrivera
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29 Mar 2006 10:56 AM |
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IBM just published an article on the topic:The end of TV as we know it: A future industry perspectivehttp://www-1.ibm.com/services/us/index.wss/ibvstudy/imc/a1023172
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Frymaster
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29 Mar 2006 11:32 PM |
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That is cool, lriv. 'Hanx. I like the Massive Passives v. Kool Kids/Gadgetier generational chasm which is already so evident. I am totally KK.Consumers who demand access to content and control of media will define the new reality in global socio-economics. Oh, how well that shoe fits this other foot.
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HowardRheingold
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02 Apr 2006 8:27 PM |
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Speaking of changing everything: Youtube.<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0YSsiZeZHKw"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0YSsiZeZHKw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
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HowardRheingold
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02 Apr 2006 8:30 PM |
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Oops. I guess this discussionforum doesn't allow embeddable players. Youtube is revolutionary in several dimensions: 1. It's a forum for distributing amateur videos (under 10 minutes at present). 2. It's a community forum, where people have home pages like myspace and other social networks, and link to and rate each other. 3. It enables anybody with a video file to quickly convert it to Flash format and copy/paste an embeddable in an email or blogpost -- catalyzing viral distribution.Here's a video of danah boyd talking about MySpace on The O'Reilly Factor, with a player embedded in a blog post:http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2006/03/31/myspace_the_bo.html
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ebedell
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lrivera
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10 Apr 2006 6:55 PM |
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WSJ reports that ABC (Disney) will make blockbuster series such as Lost and Desperate Housewives available for download the morning after broadcast, financed by ads from Ford, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and other companiesSeems we are starting to see some (big) early adopters, on the rules described in the first post on the topic. Will the rest of the industry follow? Are first mover advantages considerable? Will people that dont download start doing it because it is legal and more convenient? Will quality and publicity make "ilegal" downloaders shift to the new model?I will watch closely...
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Blissfulpain
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25 Apr 2006 8:04 PM |
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Posted By lrivera on 4/10/2006 1:55:43 PMWSJ reports that ABC (Disney) will make blockbuster series such as Lost and Desperate Housewives available for download the morning after broadcast, financed by ads from Ford, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and other companiesSeems we are starting to see some (big) early adopters, on the rules described in the first post on the topic. Will the rest of the industry follow? Are first mover advantages considerable? Will people that dont download start doing it because it is legal and more convenient? Will quality and publicity make "ilegal" downloaders shift to the new model?I will watch closely... Probly see the same effect with TV as was observed with mp3's. iTunes jumped on the market with a player (iPod) and a distributor(iTunes software/internet). Though they may not 'convert' the ppl that know how to use Bittorrent or emule, they certainly make money off the ppl that find it far more user-friendly, less stressful (tech-support and legal) and all those other ammenities we don't mind paying for. So i suspect early adopters WILL have a major advantage, but iTunes already has a large portion of the market on 'user created' materials such as pod casts. Sure you can play a pod cast on your computer or other devices, but it is strongly linked with the ipod already and so that's just more word-of-mouth advertising for Apple. If they start selling/distributing TV shows instead of just songs, then they could easily corner a large portion of the market since they already have the infrastructure and the customers.
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lrivera
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25 Apr 2006 8:36 PM |
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I agree Apple has two nice beach-heads with the iTunes channel and the iPod platform, but I would not underestimate the potential of Google Videos/You Tube via PDAs/Windows enabled portables, Sony content via PSP (which the deal will turn into a propietary value chain) or Microsoft's bargaining power via the portable Xbox whenever it appears...In my opinion the future is yet to be defined
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cretus
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26 Apr 2006 1:11 AM |
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TGLE's Omni has a 3.5-inch LCD display which is bigger than the iPod's 2.5-inch display. TGLE's Omni comes with a remote control which the iPod does not. TGLE's Omni comes with a built in microphone which the iPod does not. TGLE's Omni has a built in Digital Video Recorder which the iPod does not.
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Blissfulpain
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26 Apr 2006 2:42 AM |
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Posted By cretus on 4/25/2006 8:11:04 PMTGLE's Omni has a 3.5-inch LCD display which is bigger than the iPod's 2.5-inch display. TGLE's Omni comes with a remote control which the iPod does not. TGLE's Omni comes with a built in microphone which the iPod does not. TGLE's Omni has a built in Digital Video Recorder which the iPod does not. first time i've ever heard of it... I'd bet if there was a poll about several devices, in the format of 'what would you buy', there'd be a large trend towards people picking the device they 'know about' or have heard about most often, rather then the device that has the most features if the prices were similar.and on top of that the ipod created something of a standard device that other companies could hop onto and create addons for, so that generates even more buzz and by-product advertising.
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