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Re: Why TiVO and YouTube terrify the broadcasters and carriers
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:01:28 -0400
Yup! Begin forwarded message: From: Armando Stettner <aps () ieee org> Date: August 14, 2008 4:40:16 PM EDTTo: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>, "Bill St.Arnaud" <bill.st.arnaud () canarie ca>
Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>Subject: Re: [IP] Why TiVO and YouTube terrify the broadcasters and carriers
AppleTV has had YouTube for a while. Also, aps. Begin forwarded message:
From: David Farber <dave () farber net> Date: August 14, 2008 8:49:58 AM EDT To: "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>Subject: [IP] Why TiVO and YouTube terrify the broadcasters and carriersReply-To: dave () farber net Begin forwarded message: From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks) Date: August 14, 2008 12:13:48 AM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Why TiVO and YouTube terrify the broadcasters and carriers[Note: This item comes from Bill St. Arnaud's list. DLH] From: "Bill St.Arnaud" <bill.st.arnaud () canarie ca> Date: August 13, 2008 9:48:11 AM PDTSubject: [CAnet - news] Why TiVO and YouTube terrify the broadcasters and carriersFor more information on this item please visit my blog at http://green-broadband.blogspot.com/ or http://billstarnaud.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------[Despite the availability of hundreds of channels, anybody who has tried to find anything interesting on TV these days, other than the Olympics, willcheer these developments. Personally I cant wait to ditch my cable TV subscription once I get can access to Hulu and a host of other videoservices over the Internet. Some excerpts from Lauren Weinstein's excellentNetwork Neutrality blog and GigaCom --BSA] Why TiVo and YouTube Terrify ISPs <http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000412.html>Greetings. TiVo is in the process of introducing a direct interface to YouTube for their Series 3 and TiVo HD units. I saw it in operation for the first time yesterday. It is seriously slick. You can browse YouTube on anyold connected TV, watching full-screen with surprisingly high quality,completely acceptable resolution in most cases (apparently an H.264 codec isin use). TiVo has a variety of other broadband content facilities, includingdownloading of movies, but the availability of the vast range of YouTubecontent, along with the familiar search and "more like this" features, strikes me as something of a sea change.Suddenly now, there's always going to be something interesting to watch on TV. Anyone who can't find anything up their alley on YouTube is most likelyeither not trying or dead.But if viewers are reduced to counting bits by draconian bandwidth caps, such wonders will be nipped in the bud -- and that's apparently what the large ISPs would like to see (unless they can get a piece of the action, ofcourse, in addition to subscriber fees). The sorts of convergencerepresented by a broadband TiVo terrifies ISPs whose income streams dependon selling content as well as access. [snip]<http://gigaom.com/2008/08/12/can-online-video-support-its-next-generation/ >Can Online Video Support Its Next Generation?Hayden Black is nice, funny, quotable and makes two critically acclaimed and modestly popular web shows. He may not have a face for television, but that hasn't stopped him from becoming the poster boy for a market of online video producers that has a growing crowd of early-stage startups looking to meetits needs.Black, who has never signed an exclusive deal and whose shows - Goodnight Burbank and Abigail's Teen Diary - are distributed on some 15 different hosting sites, says he gets pitched at least once a week to try the services of any number of new online video platforms, video converters, video adnetworks or analytics providers.Multiple startups are building on what portals such as YouTube, Revver, Vimeo and Veoh provide to serve people like Black, who are trying to build an audience and a business around online content. These days, that couldmean anything from citizen journalism like The Uptake to an onlinepersonality like iJustine or a TV network like MTV. Once such potential customers create their content they need to distribute, organize and promoteit - things existing tools do, just not particularly well.Earlier this year, Emeryville, Calif.-based TubeMogul raised $1.5 million from Knight's Bridge Capital Partners, and it's currently trying to raisemore funding. New York City-based blip.tv, a video portal that hostsindependent episodic shows and actively works to foster a community amongits creators, raised money from Ambient Sound Investments and Lauder Partners last year and is also looking to raise more. [snip] RSS Feed: <http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress> ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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