All of the ViodiTV videos from CableNEXT are provided in this player. Each video has its own post, as well. The advantage to this particular player is that one video after another will play in a lean-back experience. There is probably about 30 minutes of content in this player. To link to individual posts, click on the ViodiTV @ CableNEXT channel and scroll down to a specific video and click on the title to get the link.
A high level overview of CableNEXT 2007 in Santa Clara with Roger Bindl and Ken Pyle. This 3 day conference featured a keynote speech by Tony Werner of Comcast who suggested that Cloud Computing could be a significant game changer.
"It’s not about television anymore. It’s about video across multiple touchpoints," so says Tim Hanlon, Executive Vice President of Duneo Ventures in this interview at CableNEXT. He discusses how quickly online video is doing the things that cable VOD has promised for years. He and his group bring an interesting perspective to advertising and its impact on new media.
Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform, discusses how Internet Video can be used as a proving ground for television applications. He points out the importance of applications in creating a sticky service.
Industry consultant and former Sun Microsystems executive, Bill Correll, provides an overview of the panels he moderated at the CableNEXT conference. Additionally, he provides some interesting perspectives on the state of interactive television and advertising.
Jeff Binder, Founding CEO and President of Broadbus and, through acquisition, Motorola, provides some sound advice for start-ups looking to sell into the cable market. He suggests have a diverse customer base in terms of both geography and market segment.
Kelly Anderson of the TM Forum and Kshitij Kumar of Tellytopia summarize their CableNEXT presentations regarding the concept of the "Electronic Megastore". Anderson talks of the importance of the back-office, while Kumar suggests that the online world has set the bar for electronic commerce.
Dec 10
John McDevitt of HSN Shop by Remote discusses how their interactive application that allows people to order items through their cable remote control is increasing the conversion of viewers to buyers. He talks about what they learn including the idea that speed matters more than fancy graphics. He also provides some very open advice to new entrants to the video distribution business.
This particular interview makes a good complement to the panel I was honored to moderate at the CableNEXT conference. The title of the panel was something along the lines of what will it take to creat a Cable Megastore. McDevitt’s comments reflect what the panelists said, as well as what the representative from the Disney Travel on Demand channel said.
OCAP from an investor’s perspective is given in this ViodiTV interview with Gary Lauder at CableNEXT. Lauder Partners, LLC is a long-time investor in the cable industry and has some good words of wisdom in terms of what the cable industry needs to do to make OCAP a success.
Michael Collette talks about standards and the possibility of creating a devices that span the cable, telco and satellite platforms in this brief interview at CableNEXT.
