TDG Opinions

February 2009 - Posts

• In the Rush to Push Cable Programming Online, Are Operators Leaving Money on the Table?

  Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, DirecTV, and other Pay TV operators are in the process of building an online presence that will feature the latest and greatest shows from cable networks such as Discovery and Disney. Some operators may choose to develop brands for their own online service – as in Comcast’s On-Demand Online offering – or operators can unify behind a single back-end mechanism which can then be sub-branded and offered to their subscribers as an extension to their current Pay TV services.... Posted Feb 22 2009, 09:04 AM by Michael Greeson with no comments Filed under: OTT, Time Warner Cable, Michael Greeson, Comcast, Cox Communications, cable operators, DirecTV

• Cable: The Time to Engage the Young is Now

  I read an interesting piece by Peter Shapiro on cable360.net a couple days ago entitled “What Do Young People Want From Cable.” Using Pew data as a backdrop, he reached the conclusion that the young aren’t interested in TV (since they get everything they want from the Internet) and they also weren’t interested in phone service (since they use cell phones.) He also said that even as the young age they are not likely to change, rather sticking with the services they’ve grown used to. ... Posted Feb 20 2009, 01:41 PM by Colin Dixon with no comments Filed under: OTT, Over-The-Top, Broadband TV, young consumers

• HULU's Boxee'ng Match

  By now many of you have caught the uproar surrounding HULU’s efforts to pull their content from Boxee and TV.com. This happened at the request of the content providers supplying content to HULU. Why?... Posted Feb 20 2009, 01:00 PM by Andy Tarczon with no comments

• Over-the-Top Video Delivery Speaks to Minority Markets

  Last week I was invited to attend an LA launch event for a new over-the-top video service dubbed &TV, yet another example of the host of new vertical content services targeting looking to use the Internet to deliver programming directly the living room TV. ... Posted Feb 18 2009, 01:37 PM by Colin Dixon with no comments Filed under: OTT, Over-The-Top, Colin Dixon, Korea, &TV, Broad&TV, Celrun

• Moving On Up or Just Moving On? The Changes at Move Networks

  There has been much speculation over the last few days regarding what’s really going on at Move Networks. Reports of layoffs and worse abound in the blogosphere; this despite the fact that Move has become a gold standard of sorts for high-quality web video delivery. ... Posted Feb 17 2009, 08:04 AM by Colin Dixon with no comments Filed under: OTT, Over-The-Top, next-generation video, Colin Dixon, video delivery, video streaming, Andy Tarczon, Streaming Media, web video, Move Networks

• Netflix Posts Impressive Gains as Hollywood Withers – What’s Really Going on Here?

  Earlier this week, Walt Disney Co. reported a 32% drop in quarterly net income, a decline much worse than analyst expectations and due primarily to a huge decline in DVD sales. Why did this happen?... Posted Feb 05 2009, 08:43 AM by Michael Greeson with no comments Filed under: OTT, pay TV, Broadband Video, Netflix, Xbox, quantum media, Disney, DVD mail-order, CE, NBC