On Digital Media

On Digital Media, Episode #11

In this week’s episode, Ken Gellman and John Federico discuss:

• Sergey Brin enthusiastic about video search
• Zune rebuffed by Pitchfork
• The search engine/portal pecking order
• NBCU Projects $1B in digital revenues by 2009
• Newspapers need 20 30 years of digital revenue growth to equal current print revenues
• Follow-up to the Google vs. Yahoo Search Marketing comparison
• Bertelsmann starts digital media fund, headed by Richard Sarnoff
• Time Warner moves closer to networked DVR
• “Click Fraud threatens foundation of Web Ads”
• DVD Jon/DoubleTwist enabling devices to play iTMS content
• Boy Scouts teach kids the “evils of piracy”
• Vitrue: user-generated video advertising platform

Chia-Lin couldn’t join us this week - she’ll be back next week.

Our closing music is Democracy from Alexander Blu

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On Digital Media, Episode #10

In this episode:

• Audio comment from John Wall of The M Show
• Fox News uses Treo video capabilities to break story
• Piracy as your competitor
• Universal Music Group sues Grouper and Bolt
• Yahoo! invests in Right Media
• Google to grab 25% of the $16 billion online advertising market
• Media companies threaten YouTube over copyright infringement
• Showtime content being sold on Amazon.com’s UnBox service

Our permanent special guest, Ken Gellman joins us.

Our closing music is Democracy from Alexander Blu

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On Digital Media, Episode #9

With us this week is our permanent special guest, Ken Gellman.

• GoogTube: the Google-YouTube Acquisition
• Arbitron’s Portable People Meter gets FCC approval
• Arbitron Sues over PPM Patents
• Helios Upscaling DVD Player
• NEC creates dual-mode chips, hoping to call cease fire in the silly Blu-Ray/HD-DVD wars
• Third format for HD DVD’s launching at CES for $175 U.S.
• Who’s really watching internet video?
• DSM technology to deliver 100 mbps over copper phone lines, will hopefully replace DSL
• Protect-DVD DRM won’t allow Windows PC’s to play DVD’s
• Organic CEO says web video not yet appealing

Our closing music is Democracy from Alexander Blu

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On Digital Media, Episode #8

After our attendance at the Podcast & Portable Media Expo, we discusss a bit more podcasting than usual.

• ESPN writes off their MVNO
• New Jersey to tax downloadable music & video
• SanDisk & Real add a physical retail partner to their music service: BestBuy
• eBook Readers abound: Sony, Panasonic, Fujitsu, others
• Sony battery recalls may extend to other gadgets
• DVD John introduces DoubleTwist - a company to help media providers to get on the iPod using a reverse-engineered version of Apple’s FairPlay DRM
• Leo proposes the use of Netcast
• Popcurrent launched by an old-school new media veteran
• Nokia extends its commitment to digitial media on handsets
• Samson introduces the Zoom H4 podcast recording device
• John talks about standards in podcasting
• Shout out of congratulations to Paul Colligan, Jason Van Orden and Rob Walch on their podcasting books
• PodShow closes a $15MM series B round
• Gigavox releases the Levelator (which we used on this episode)

Our closing music is Democracy from Alexander Blu

Our wine this week was a BV Coastal Estates 2005 Pinot Noir and a 1919 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon.
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