Sweet sanity: 75% of Americans say infringement files should be under $100.
Sweet sanity: 75% of Americans say infringement fines should be under $100 http://t.co/ftKhPLNA Now to get the message to Politicians Frankly, when you can legitimately pay $7.50 a month for access to...
View Article1 in 3 Viewers Despises Television…
1 in 3 Viewers Despises Television And Wants To See It Die http://t.co/WvpihGVD It’s a small sample but an interesting result: The survey was prompted by the news that a generation of “cord-nevers” and...
View ArticleThe Death of Television
The Death of Television http://t.co/B7PGGnvk While many are writing about the imminent death of Television, Evan Shapiro has a much broader take: He starts by acknowledging what people thing: The...
View ArticleMore Movies Will Be Streamed Than Watched on Disc in 2012.
More Movies Will Be Streamed Than Watched On Disc In 2012 http://t.co/6oOvgKnG And that’s the legal viewings! Legal online viewings of films will more than double to 3.4 billion this year from 1.4...
View ArticleWeb Original News Video Get Twice the Views as TV Clips
Web Original News Video Get Twice the Views as TV Clips http://t.co/MHcBBP3o An interesting data point from Stokes Young, and Executive Producer at MSNBC: Video news created exclusively for the Web...
View ArticleRIAA Knows (But Tried To Hide)…
RIAA Knows (But Tried To Hide) That Most ‘Unpaid’ Music Acquisition Comes From Offline Swapping http://t.co/g79CtPfy So, let me get this straight. The RIAA knew that SOPA would not, in fact, make any...
View ArticleThe Inevitable Disruption of Television
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/08/the_inevitable_disruption_of_t.html Television as we know it is not going away any time soon, but it is going to be disrupted at some time: all industries are. But even...
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Most people with HD TVs do not watch “true HD”.
Broadcasting & Cable (among others) are reporting a Neilsen report that: New Nielsen data shows that more than three-quarters of all U.S. homes have HD TVs, up 14% from last year, and that nearly...
View ArticleDon’t believe the Hype: filmmaking is doing just fine.
While the MPAA lobby group keep bleating that filmmaking in some way is in trouble because they can’t see how they’ll make “$100 million movies” profitably, the industry is actually doing very well. In...
View ArticleDraconian Downloading Law In Japan Goes Into Effect… Music Sales Drop!
The conventional wisdom from the dinosaurs of the film, TV and music business is that all they need to do is get laws changed in their favor to “stop piracy”. In Japan they got their way with a new,...
View ArticleOnly a headline for a day: Intel set to destroy cable TV industry!
Yesterday Broadcast Engineer had a headline Intel set to destroy cable TV industry suggesting Intel were ready to disrupt the pay TV industry with a new set top box and a lá carte content. The promise:...
View ArticleStreaming will never replace Cable TV?
Dan Rayburn, has written a provocative post titled: Streaming Video Can’t Scale At Cable TV Quality, Will Never Replace Traditional TV Distribution. Essentially he argues that there isn’t enough...
View ArticleSuperbowl score: Internet distribution 3 million; TV 108.7 million!
A record average viewership via traditional TV Network and Cable distribution of 108.7 million (and many more who only saw part of the game) vs Internet distribution of a record 3 million, up from 2.1...
View ArticleHow will a YouTube subscription change the landscape?
According to some reports a YouTube subscription for some of its partner channels is on the cards? If they do, will it become a cable competitor, or will it simply kill those partner channels? In an...
View ArticleApparently Piracy Drops Whenever Netflix Launches in New Markets
Shelley Palmer notes that Netflix’s chief content officer has a novel way to battle piracy. Netflix’s chief content officer has a novel way to combat online piracy: give people easy and affordable ways...
View ArticleDownloads make little mark on box office.
Yet another study shows no evidence of harm from illegal downloading, aka unauthorized distribution. The illegal downloading of films has little effect on box office revenue, and industry estimates of...
View ArticleIs Twitch a broadcast competitor?
Variety just posted an article on how many people had watched online game play (of one game) in one week. 75,000 players and 6 million individual viewers who collectively watched 327 million minutes of...
View ArticlePiracy destroys box office again: with higher revenues and attendance
Yet again the threat of movie piracy – that is, unauthorized distribution – has had no observable affect on an industry with higher attendance and higher revenues. Please destroy my businesses like this!
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Augmented Reality is already huge!
While Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality often get conflated, they are very different beasts. Virtual Reality, takes you out of the current ‘reality’ into a different virtual space. It’s largely a...
View ArticleThe Terence and Philip Show: Episode 79 – TV Holds the Top Spot in Tech Device?
The latest show starts with discussing a recent survey that claims TV holds the top spot in tech devices, but we aren’t so sure. This discussion, as usual, covers a wide range of topics including...
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