On Digital Media

On Digital Media, Episode #56: New Tee Vee

In this first episode of 2008, John Federico, Chia-Lin Simmons and Steve Hatch discuss:

• John attended Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Breakfast in New York last week, with Real-Time Social Tagging. Interesting…
• Chia-Lin is planning to attend the Girl Geeks Dinner in San Francisco Mountain View on January 31st and possibly Lunch 2.0
• CES was all about the TV’s this year
• Google and Panasonic have signed a deal that will enable content from Google’s services - like YouTube videos and Picasa Photo Albums - to be displayed on Panasonic TV’s. There was no mention of the use of Android software in the deal.
• The Seismic Shift in Online Video: viewers and advertisers are moving online.
• YouTube traffic is up 8% since the strike began
• Sony’s Clicker (formerly Grouper) has seen a doubling of registered users
• Chrysler is shifting its advertising budgets to live sports and the Internets - and out of prime time programs.
• TV writers and producers are going there too: NewTeeVee reports that a group of striking writers who call themselves Virtual Artists are seeking $30 million to produce content for online and digital distribution.
• Chia-Lin’s friend Dylan Otto Krider was nominated as an Amazon Short Story Finalist. Go vote for him here and help him land a book deal with Penguin Publishing.
• HD-DVD is Dead! And really, so is Blu-Ray thanks to Apple and others. Steve thinks that broadband and online distribution will make the format wars irrelevant. Is he right?
• Apple has secured downloadable rental rights from all the major movie studios - an uprecendented deal. Did they just sound the death knell for Netflix?
• Was Netflix’s announcement of unlimited online movie viewing an attempt to pre-empt Apple’s rental efforts?
• Engadget has a matrix that helps you determine what you can and cannot do in the Apple movie rental framework based on your hardware and software.
• Apple also announced the MacBook Air. Chia-Lin nearly drooled on herself while looking at it. John thinks it’s an amazing machine but is mildly disappointed in it as he would have preferred a replacement for the 12″ Powerbook.
• Time Warner Cable want to start charging fees based on individual usage for its cable modem customers. Who came up with that bright idea!? We think it will hinder the adoption of new media…which may be what the cable company wants, anyway.
• Jaman.com will be distributing their content to TiVo subscribers.
• The Economist has released the 2008 Media Industry Forecast (PDF): for the first time ever, the web will outperform radio. That’s Huuuuuuge.
• Steve asks: When will television start to see a decline in the total advertisers dollars flowing into the medium?
• SAVE SCRABULOUS!
• Shout out to James Gardiner, a fan from Australia, for his story suggestions and of course, for being a loyal ODM listener.

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