BIG Picture — digital media advisory

New Coke?

by Daniel Taylor on 11 October, 2011

Straight out of the New Coke playbook, Netflix is dropping the Qwikster brand but keeping the increased prices.

Except Hulu Plus

by Daniel Taylor on 29 July, 2011

When is Hulu streaming limited to cable subscribers? When you’re not a Hulu Plus subscriber. Otherwise, go ahead and cut the cable. Regardless of what the NY Times says.

With an anticipated deal announced for Hulu, it’s time for Rovi to appear, enforcing their EPG patents. This has to take a fair amount of energy from the recent dealmaking involving the joint venture between Comcast, News Corp. and Disney.

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Is OTT More Energy Efficient?

28 June 2011

In addition to being a better way to get programming, OTT video might just be a more energy-efficient way to get television programming. That is, if the set-top box is the primary factor in energy consumption. And DVRs….fuggedaboudit!

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Cable’s Right To Sue

24 June 2011

Media companies just aren’t ready to concede the multiscreen business to cable MSOs. There’s way too much at stake, and content owners are re-thinking their overall approach towards distribution.

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Roku/Walmart

16 June 2011

If buying Vudu wasn’t enough. Or if pressuring CE vendors to support Vudu on their connected TV platforms. The latest news involving OTT and Walmart is that Roku boxes are now selling at Walmart.

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Google’s $200 Billion Gamble

14 June 2011

Nobody bothered to question Eric Schmidt when he made the claim. Now Googlers are repeating the $200 billion assertion for Internet display advertising. In which we ask the obvious question: could Internet display advertising account for 1/3 of all advertising spending worldwide?

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thePlatform/Alcatel-Lucent

13 June 2011

There have been many announcements about different types of multi-screen solutions, and the biggest gap has always been between the network, the CDN and the publisher. Things just got a lot closer in a multi-screen plan bringing together Comcast’s thePlatform video publishing system and trusted-provider-to-service-providers, Alcatel-Lucent.

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Digital Media Roundup: June 10, 2011

10 June 2011

Busy week for digital media. World IPV6 Day happened without a hitch. Major U.S. broadcast networks conclude their upfronts. TVB pumping Nielsen’s latest alternate delivery (satellite) numbers. And someone still believes that web video shouldn’t have advertising.

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