Kurt Scherf provides an overview of some of the key points from the 2010 Connections Conference. From the GoogleTV initiative to Verizon’s FiOS, Scherf raises some interesting questions and provides keen insight as to where the market is going. His prediction that we will see a closer relationship between service providers and CE manufacturers points to the importance of these kinds of conferences in bringing together once disparate disciplines.
The video player above includes a full list of the ViodiTV interviews at Parks Associates Connections 2010.
- Kurt Scherf, Parks Associates, with Closing Summary
- Loren Shade, Allegro
- David Holland, DivX
- Peter Smyth, Redmere
- Jeff Vinson with Connections Take-Aways
- Cathy Bradley, Accenture, Service as a Brand
- Wilfred Martis – Broadband for Smart TV – CDN, Adaptive Bit Rate and 10 Mb/s
- LEVEL at Connections
- Mitch Singer, Sony Pictures
- Rick Schwartz, Packet Video on Twonky Server
- Sean Besser, Rovi
- Ronald Jacoby, Yahoo!
- Gary Lauder at Connections 2010
- Scott Birnbaum, Samsung
- Anthony Rodio, Support.com
- Joseph Ambeault of Verizon on a New Development Culture
- William Brown, D-Link at Intamac
- Wilfred Martis, Inside the Smart TV
- Andy Melder, Invisible Network Management
- Ken Wirt, Cisco
- Ian Walsh, ProVision
- Rochelle Thompso, ActiveVideo
- Steve Linke Verizon Wireless
- Rob Gelphman – Even Higher Data Speeds

ViodiTV interviews from the Parks Associates "Connections Summit" at CES 2010. The interviews range from TV is Everywhere, to 3D TV, to TV Guides, to how we view content, and into the clouds.
ViodiTV interview video’s from CONNECTIONS 2009. Ken Pyle interviewing, Roger Bindl camera and Editing.
Stay tuned as video’s are added. The complete list will include 4Home, Accedo Broadband, Affinegy, Allegro, Austin Energy, Blackarrow, Bluephone, Bunchball, Celeno, Direct Energy, Eyecon, Icron, Irdeto, Parks Associates (Kurt Scherf, Tricia Parks), PlumChoice, Popcorn, Qualcomm, Sigma Designs, Silicon Image, Singleclick, Sony Pictures, Entone, SupportSoft, Synacor, Telecordia, uControl, Valens, Viacube, Via Licensing, Zilog, and Zodiac.
Ken Pyle interviews Fred King of PlumChoice, at CONNECTIONS 2009 in Santa Clara, CA. King explains how they work through service providers and consumer electronic manufacturers to help them help their customers. King suggests that now is a good time to provide remote support services, as people are opting for more frugal behavior and as a result are looking at fixing instead of replacing technology.
