Kodak’s KZone at CES 2010 with the WebTV panel and our interview with Illeana Douglas

ViodiTV covered the Parks Associates’ event at the 2010 Consumer Electronics convention and we got some great interviews with people involved with different services, such as energy management, telemedicine. Our interview with Illeana Douglas, filmed at the Kodak booth at the CES tradeshow floor, captured the changing world of content creation and distribution.

Many of you will recognize Douglas from her appearances in movies and TV shows, such as Seinfeld, Law and Order and Frasier.  I came to know her through her character in the short-lived, but funny and all too accurate TV-series, Action.  Thanks to the so-called cloud, about a year ago, I watched this series and was amazed at the quality of the acting as well as the breadth of name actors that were part of this show.

It was thrilling to hear Douglas speak at the Kodak showcase at CES. What we found out is that that Douglas is controlling her own destiny by producing content through her own production company. She provides a great example of how to monetize content by working directly with a brand, IKEA in this case. The brand is woven into the program so effectively that she is able to tell her story without the viewer feeling like they are getting a sales pitch.

As important, thanks to the interactive nature of the broadband medium, the audience becomes part of and shapes the story. In this video interview, she explains how the adoption of Korean babies by Swedish parents drove a story line in her series, Easy to Assemble. Watch our video interview and hear her thoughts on how technology and broadband are changing the content creation and distribution business.

[note, the text for this post was updated on 6/9/10]  ViodiTV is produced by Roger Bindl and Ken Pyle.