Since March 2009, the Yahoo! Widgets platform has been bringing Internet applications directly to the TV. In this video interview filmed at Parks Associates’ Connections Conference, Ronald Jacoby, Senior Director and Chief Architect, Connected TV, Yahoo!, explains their reasons for developing their connected TV platform. Jacoby tells of their success at integrating this open platform into major brand televisions, which has led to the development of a range of simple to use interactive TV applications. Later in the interview, he provides a very insightful answer to my question as to whether multiple open TV platforms (e.g. Google TV) are necessary.

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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.

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The video player above includes a full list of the ViodiTV interviews at Parks Associates Connections 2010.

  1. Kurt Scherf, Parks Associates, with Closing Summary
  2. Loren Shade, Allegro
  3. David Holland, DivX
  4. Peter Smyth, Redmere
  5. Jeff Vinson with Connections Take-Aways
  6. Cathy Bradley, Accenture, Service as a Brand
  7. Wilfred Martis – Broadband for Smart TV – CDN, Adaptive Bit Rate and 10 Mb/s
  8. LEVEL at Connections
  9. Mitch Singer, Sony Pictures
  10. Rick Schwartz, Packet Video on Twonky Server
  11. Sean Besser, Rovi
  12. Ronald Jacoby, Yahoo!
  13. Gary Lauder at Connections 2010
  14. Scott Birnbaum, Samsung
  15. Anthony Rodio, Support.com
  16. Joseph Ambeault of Verizon on a New Development Culture
  17. William Brown, D-Link at Intamac
  18. Wilfred Martis, Inside the Smart TV
  19. Andy Melder, Invisible Network Management
  20. Ken Wirt, Cisco
  21. Ian Walsh, ProVision
  22. Rochelle Thompso, ActiveVideo
  23. Steve Linke Verizon Wireless
  24. Rob Gelphman – Even Higher Data Speeds
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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.

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