Hiring a VP of Engineering

Gee, if this blog
entry (from Union Square Ventures) wasn’t about hiring a CTO for a
web service, you’d think it was about hiring a TV Chief Engineer !

The Hockenberry Invention

The GE / Bill
O’Reilly fallout from John Hockenberry’s article
in MIT’s Technology Review continues to simmer. The pertinent
infomation and background links are contained in this update from TVNewser.

CES Wrap-Ups

Here are some blog summaries on how CES is morphing from just a hardware show to a harware and content show:

NewTeeVee:
CES Scorecard: What You Need to Know

Jack Myers: NBCU and Sony Transform CES to ‘Tech PLUS Content’ Convention

Shelly Palmer (via Jack Myers): Key Take-aways from CES 2008: Shelly Palmer Report

Lost Remote (Entries Tagged “CES”)

IPTV Ideas for Life

Panasonic announced
on Monday (1/7/08) that it will work with Google to develop TVs that
will allow users to watch Internet content such as photos and videos.
(Think YouTube and Picasa…)

(From Reuters)

And from Search Engine Journal – more details.

Warner Rejects HD DVD For BLU-RAY

Here Come the CES Announcements !

Sharp and Samsung do deals
for limited internet content on their TVs.

Streambox will introduce
a software-based product for mobile use and as well as other products.

(Thanks to Lost
Remote and NewTeeVee.)

What’s Next for IPTV?

I was driving my son back to his apartment last night and we got into a
discussion about how disappointing the sales of Apple TV boxes has been.
Frank Capria sums up the situation here.
(You also may want to take a look at the BusinessWeek article "I
Want My iTV".)

Looking forward to MacWorld, my son and I are betting that a revised
Apple TV box will sport some flavor of High Def DVD player. Can’t wait
to see if we’re right…

And Business Week reports there is increased buzz
that Apple and the big studios are close to agreement on downloadable
movie rentals.

Fanfare™ and TakeTV™

Had lunch today with my favorite industry shmoozer
and one of the things we discussed was TakeTV™ (a small media player you
connect to your TV) and the possibility of additional product
announcements at CES. Read the original Press Release here.

And the Fanfare™ website (where you download the contentent) is here.

Panasonic HDC-SD5

OK, I normally don’t spend all my time looking at consumer HD cameras.
But I can think of lots of uses for the Panasonic HDC-SD5 reviewed
at eirikso.com

And if you have FCP 6.0.1 or later, you can actually edit this AVC stuff.

16:9 In A 4:3 World

An interesting interview
with Hearst-Argyle’s Marty Faubell in TV Newsday.

FOX News Rolls Out High-Tech Election Wheels

And from Big Head DC, here
is the companion story to my blog entry BOHRMAN’S
BUS BEATS B’CASTERS W/ BGAN

Broadcast 2.0 Redux

A bit old, but still food for thought on eirikso.com

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