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  • Content Production Potpourri

    I was proud to be with the Team Lightbulb folks in this extended panel for Telecom 2008 at NAB. We had 3 hours of cutting edge demonstrations of Local Content production tools. Thanks to Viodi's Roger Bindl, Kalona Telephone's Justyn Miller, TellyTopia's Kshitij Kumar and ZillionTV's Matt McKee for serving as panelists and helping to…

  • Another VSB Solution – A-VSB, That Is

    Mobile video was a major theme of NAB. There are many competing approaches, including MediaFlo, DVB-H and ICO’s Mobile Interactive Media. In this brief video interview, June Hee Lee, Ph.D & Principal Engineer, Samsung explains the approach being deployed in Korea and may become a popular way for U.S. broadcasters to extend their reach into…

  • Download from the ITA

    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. 

  • An Alternative Way to Pilot

    Television networks spend $500 Million to a $1 Billion per year on pilot episodes. The rise of User Generated Content sites, such as Grouper, represent a new, lower cost way for TV networks to bubble up talent and ideas. Festivals and contests are another way for networks to find content.  We met up with AJ…

  • Partnering to Create Addictive Services

    Services, such as Caller ID on the TV and local content, that are addictive are what independent telcos need to provide if they want to gain and retain broadband subscribers.  Horizon Telecom’s Ed McKell talks of these services in this brief video interview.  McKell, who spoke at the IP Possibilities Conference, discusses how partnerships have…

  • Video and TV over the Net – Part 2 of a Series – Vudu

    Video and Television over the Internet are accelerating faster than Kurzweil’s Law – a bit faster than Moore’s Law I think. This review demonstrates another service for VOD over the Internet and to the television. It keeps getting better when you compared to my earlier reviews on a similar service. Take a look at this…