Ben Mendelson, President of the Interactive Television Alliance, provides highlights from their press breakfast at NAB 2008. He speaks of some of the direct video to consumer plays, as well the OCAP efforts of cable television operators.
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.
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.
