On Digital Media

On Digital Media, Episode #15

John, Chia-Lin and Ken are back from the Thanksgiving holiday. We hope all of our U.S. listeners had some good bird…

• Audio Comment from John Wall of The M Show
• Of Playstations, XBoxes and Wii’s: Games, Gamers and Gaming
• YouTube & Revver on Verizon Wireless’ vCast
• Sideloading music and the economics of distributing digital media on wireless networks
• Wireless Carriers trying too many things?
• Ken would give up his cell phone for his iPod; John thinks he’s fooling himself
• Librarian of Congress comments: “DVD ripping not legal”; OK for college professors
• HBO mulling over broadband video site for current HBO On Demand subscribers
• Big Media is making $500 million dollars in revenue from digital media
• What skills do you need as a Digital Media Exec working for Big Media?
• Would Michael Richards have gotten into as much hot water without digital media?

Our wine this week was: Francis Coppola Diamond Series Pinot Noir.

Our closing music is Democracy from Alexander Blu.

Send us email to comments@odmcast.com or call our comment line: 775-860-2263. You can also reach us via Gizmo by contacting username ondigitalmedia.

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On Digital Media, Episode #14

In episode #14, Ken Gellman is traveling on business, but Chia-Lin Simmons and John Federico are joined by Steve Hatch.

• Email from Ken and his opinion on the launch of the Microsoft Zune
• Microsoft will reward you for Zune song sharing
• Zune not yet compatible with Vista, will be by January 30th
• Zune Marketplace will allow purchasers to re-download content
• Zune to allow video sharing
• Apple cuts deals with airlines to enable charging, video playback on seat-back video screens
• An Apple ODM confirms that it has received an order from Apple for “12 million phone/mp3 players”
• Two types of Apple iPhone?
• Shout out to Mac OS Ken
• Zune DRM on Windows Mobile?
• Google’s Eric Schmidt thinks that your mobile phone should be free, subsidized with advertising
• Cingular killed Wi-Fi in Nokia E62. Is the radio still in there? Is it hackable?
• Comcast, Time Warner to offer cellular service via Sprint to better compete with Verizon, et al.
• Are we spoiled by broadband?
• NPR takes flak for advocating digital tech
• Still a big Digital Divide in the U.S.?
• NBC News will podcast Meet the Press and The Nightly News in their entirety, for free
• Build yourself a SteveO
• Book: Mind Your X’s and Y’s by Lisa Johnson
• Listener Email: Bob Scheffler of BroadBus

Our wines this week were: Clos du Bois 2003 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon and Francis Coppola Diamond Series Pinot Noir.

Our closing music is Democracy from Alexander Blu.

Send us email to comments@odmcast.com or call our comment line: 775-860-2263. You can also reach us via Gizmo by contacting username ondigitalmedia.

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On Digital Media, Episode #13

In this episode, John Federico, Chia-Lin Simmons and Ken Gellman discuss:

• Recording on John’s new Zoom H4 Handheld Portable Recorder
• MySpace Continues To Rule Social Networking
• Microsoft gives Universal Music Group a piece of every Zune sold
• Redford and the Sundance Institute bring independent films to cell phones
• Sony to launch film clips download service on Grouper
• Yahoo delivers graphical ads to cell phones; Google still only text ads
• Comcast launching user-generated video portal, video-on-demand channel, Ziddio
• MySpace considering opening API’s
• PeopleAggregator.com
• Helio offering GPS-enabled friend finder phone (say that three times fast…)
• Microsoft focuses on Zune DRM and Zune Marketplace, stops selling downloads on MSN music
• Microsoft offers video download service for Xbox 360
• NBC cancels Kidnapped, finishing season on NBC.com
• Newspapers invest another $15 MM in Topix
• YouTube named Time Magazine’s invention of the year
• Listener email: After listening to episode #11, Mike Dunn tells us about BroadBus

Our closing music is Democracy from Alexander Blu

Send us email to comments@odmcast.com or call our comment line: 775-860-2263. You can also reach us via Gizmo by contacting username ondigitalmedia.

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On Digital Media, Episode #12: Apologies

We’ll be back next week with Episode #13…

 

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