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Sunday, January 13, 2008
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")
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
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.
Monday, January 07, 2008
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.)
Edited on: Monday, January 07, 2008 12:54 PM
Categories: IPTV, TV Engineering
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.
Thursday, January 03, 2008
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.
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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