On Digital Media, Episode #60: Yes, Steve. Blu-Ray is dead.
In this episode John Federico tries to wrangle Chia-Lin Simmons, Steve Hatch, Ken Gellman into discussing:
- Events: Chia-Lin will be speaking at the Spring Von Conference in San Jose in March; Steve will likely attend the Web 2.0 Conference in April
- Jobs: Jake Shapiro of PRX is looking for Social Media Co-Curators for the BallotVox coverage of Campaign ‘08.
- iTunes is now the second biggest U.S. retailer of music, second only to Wal-Mart.
- Random House will start selling their audiobooks without DRM in mp3 format. What does this mean for Audible and its acquisition by Amazon.com?
- Apple COO Tim Cook has stated that the iPhone isn’t necessarily tied to the current “single carrier” model, as it has been. Steve wonders is Apple will release and unlocked phone of any sort - including CDMA. He also wonders if this statement is a result of Google’s strategy for Android.
- Apple is planning to announce the availability of its SDK and corporate support for Microsoft Exchange groupware systems. Sign me up! (Well, after they add 3G support, too…)
- Google is rumored to be exploring a purchase of 20% of Yahoo stock in order to put a halt to the acquisition attempt by Microsoft.
- John Battelle says that everyone is in the media business. We delve into the nuances of Battelle’s assertion, the separation of media and commerce and the concepts of engagement and attention.
- People spend nearly half of their media time online according to a research report by IDC, but only about 10% of media dollars ($21 billion in 2007, according to the IAB) actually flow in that direction.
- Steve asks, “When will we merge the measurement of online and TV?” John answers, “Never.” Of course there are attempts by companies like Nielsen to get a better view on holistic media consumption of panels of people.
- Steve asks, “Will broadcast media become the modern day version of AM radio, taking a back seat to IP-based media distribution?” Yes. Of course.
- We push Steve on his downloadable video vs. Blu-Ray prediction. He maintains that the tipping point toward downloadable video will begin in 2 years time.
- Steve launches into a diatribe on the future of media distribution. John parries by informing the crew that NetFlix - a company that distributes round discs that contain digital media - has raised its outlook for the coming year.
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