Archive for the ‘iPTV’ Category

Broadcast TV Networks rattled by DVR Inroads: Technology a Serious Threat to Ad Revenue

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005Although the broadcast networks publicly play down the impact of ad-skipping technologies, it was clear from a panel at last week's National Cable & Telecommunications Association conference that TV moguls see the spread of digital video recorders as a serious ...

Audio-visual format wars. But guess who is in control?

Sunday, March 13th, 2005From the Financial Times Thursday March 2005. As Tim Burt, Scott Morrison and Aline van Duyan writeMedia companies have to work out how to capitalise on new methods of distributing and storing their output. But different business models mean there ...

Communities Dominate Brands

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005 Communities Dominate Brands Business and marketing challenges for the 21st century Tomi T Ahonen and Alan Moore (about 250 pages, hardcover, Futuretext Ltd, March 2005) Communities Dominate Brands: Business and marketing challenges for the 21st century is a book about ...

PVR’s: The End of A Beautiful Relationship?

Friday, January 14th, 2005 A very good friend of mine Mike Smallwood - who sits on the SMLXL consulting board has done some thinking on the impact of PVR's in the UK. Much has already been written about the PVR, and much will continue ...

TV for teachers

Friday, December 10th, 2004Chalk on blackboards, and the occasional inspirational teacher, are memories we all probably have. Lets fast forward to 2004. Teachers TV is a new government funded project aimed at teachers themselves. Its a great opportunity.The UK government has ...

The end of the TV schedule

Tuesday, October 26th, 2004Media Guardian reported on the changes being wrought in the world of broadcast.Among traditional broadcasters, it is clear that only the BBC has really started thinking about what the shift from linear TV to personalised TV really means. ...

The Revolution will not be televised

Thursday, September 16th, 2004The Magnus University is to reprint the SMLXL white paper The Revolution will not be Televised Le Magnus University is a non-profit statutory university incorporated under the Private Universities Act of the State of Chhattisgarh, India. The ...

Disruptive technologies

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004Jerry Lawson at eLawyer Blog posts on "disruptive technologies" and how they often deliver economic waves of change. Clayton Christiansen, a Professor at the Harvard Business School, developed the idea of "disruptive technologies" in The Innovator's Dilemma, ...

The New Digital Economics for Newspapers

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004 Life is Local say the Johnston Press. And here is the news Newspapers are on their knees, humbled by the new digital economics, declining into irrelevance, lacking investment, increasingly ignored by readers and scrabbling over a smaller advertising ...

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