from Variety.com Peeved over TiVo TiVo’s plan to allow users to download TV shows and films to Apple’s iPod and Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) could strain relations with networks and studios hoping to develop revenue streams from digital distribution. Several TV and studio execs told Daily Variety that they were considering legal action against the […]
Read more "TiVo introduces record-to-PSP, and annoys NBC"It has now been 20 days since Apple announced it would sell selected ABC-Disney television programs via iTunes. As of Monday, iTunes customers had bought more than than 1 million videos. At first glance, these sales figures seem like another nail in the coffin of broadcast television. If we can get television content online, on demand, whenever we want it, how will networks convince us to tune in on their schedules? For that matter, how can they be certain we’ll tune in at all?
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Read more "pure lol"The video IPod, of course, is a miserable idea. I’m one of those who believe people associate certain types of entertainment with certain viewing habits/places — one of the reasons downloaded movies are grifted by far less than 1% of the population, and the reason XBoxes and PS2’s bury PC games in sales. The flat-screen G5 is the real darling here, engineered to match our established viewing habits. Only 20 inches, though? Wonder what’ll come out for Christmas, hmmmm?
Some have e-mailed me to tell me that my 4th Generation Media has arrived. This is not technically true (and hey, I should be getting rich from this, right? Where are my filthy monies?). In my formulation, 4gM is a media, not a distribution, philosophy. To recap our central metaphor:
Read more "Rogers weighs in on the video iPod and how 4GM it is"For all the years of speculation and waiting, Apple have finally released the video iPod. They kinda had to though, given how good the PSP is for watching content. They couldn’t lose out to Sony, after all. 😉 from Bloomberg.com: U.S. Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) — Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs introduced a version […]
Read more "*finally*, video iPod released!!!"It’s Not TV, It’s Yahoo – New York Times There will be elaborate attention-grabbing events and video-heavy programs in nearly every category of content Yahoo offers, from sports to health. The first is called “Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone,” an audio-video-photo-blog-chat room, run by Mr. Sites, an experienced foreign correspondent, who plans to visit […]
Read more "more on Yahoo!’s plans for TV on da Web"This is so freaking cool. Google have beaten everyone else to the game and will be releasing their own IP TV. I’m guessing this is what all the secret, 1337 only, meetings have been about lately. Obviously, someone’s talked though: Watch shows through Google TV | This is Money Watch shows through Google TV Mark […]
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Read more "Everybody lies.."p2pnet.net – the original daily p2p and digital media news site p2pnet.net News Feature:- A good conspiracy story is always guaranteed to get people going and we’ve been getting emails for quite a few days, now, on the real or imagined connection between Jun Group’s The Scene online movie series, and Operation Site Down, the […]
Read more "The Scene continues to stir things up in The Scene"Guardian Unlimited | Online | Ben Hammersley: A moral imperative But it has run into a snag. Two, actually. The first is that the existing BBC archive is full of footage where the BBC does not own the right to reuse it in this way, or where no one knows to whom the rights belong. […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 