Creating a better consumer experience, while fixing the broken digital supply chain, are the objectives of the DECE. Mitch Singer, Chairman of the DECE anad CTO of Sony Pictures, discusses how this is an industry-wide initiative that includes participants from retail, infrastructure, content and telecommunications organizations. A key to what they are doing is the ability for content providers to be able to publish once and distribute to multiple places. This could result in significant cost savings in the digital supply chain, while allowing customers the freedom to easily discover and play media across all of their platforms where and when they want.
Filmed at the Connections Conference and sponsored by Parks Associates.
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
Wilfred Martis, GM Retail CE of Intel, explains the minimum requirements to enable, so-called Smart TV for consumers. The benefits of Smart TV extend beyond entertainment and include educational, telemedicine and even telecommuting opportunities. He suggests the U.S. is behind other countries in being able to implement Smart TV features, particularly in what he terms, “Geographically dispersed regions.”
The open nature of what Martis talks about promise to drive down costs and simplify use for those who currently do not have broadband. Martis suggests the current minimum broadband ingredients necessary to make this vision a reality are content distribution networks that bring content to the edge, solid buffering in the client to allow for adaptive streaming and a broadband pipe to the home of at least 10 Mb/s.
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Bill Ablondi of Parks Associates discusses his panel regarding the Smart Grid at the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit. In this brief video, Ablondi talks about the Smart Grid as a way of running more efficient businesses and governments. A sort of primordial soup is how he characterizes the current state of the Smart Grid with opportunities for all, including the potential for the creation of a new segment that he calls Energy Management Service Providers. Ablondi points out that consumers do value the benefits brought about by what the Smart Grid can bring, which is reinforced by this blog post on the Parks Associates web site.
This interview is sort of a preview of what can be expected at the 2010 Parks Associates Connections Conference, June 8-10 in Santa Clara, CA.
