Category: Viodi View
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Viodi View – 04/27/2011
When your head (and the rest of your body) is in the clouds 8 miles high, it is difficult to access the cloud. Sure, in-flight wireless does make it possible to use the Internet from a plane, but the slow-speed points to the time not so long ago when 56k dial-up was high-speed. So, while short…
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Viodi View – 04/13/2011
3DTV is real and growing more rapidly than earlier technologies, such as the DVD. The market for this new format is still maturing, but there is no doubt that it will revolutionize content production, requiring new skill sets for content producers. The verdict is still out on ATSC-M (mobile video by broadcasters); no doubt, the…
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Viodi View – 03/31/2011
“Change is our friend,” so said Brent Christensen president of the Minnesota Telecom Association at its 102nd Annual Convention in Minneapolis this week. With the retirement of former president, Randy Young, Christensen and the MTA have undergone many changes since last year’s conference. From the vantage point of an outsider, this was a smooth transition…
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Broadband Reform and More – Ch 16 & 40
Day 2 of ViodiTV at MTA Is on the air. In order to see this exclusive video coverage, you have to be at this event and staying at the convention hotels. Today, we have interviews with Bill Hegmann of NECA talking about the broadband plan, Mike Romano of NTCA calling for broadband operators to tell…
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ViodiTV is On at MTA – Ch 16 & 40
We just gave tonight’s ViodiTV program to the hotel to run on its internal channel. We have a collection of material from previous MTA events, as well as some favorites from recent shows and an interview with Everett Christensen talking about his book “60-40 or Fight.” Tomorrow night, we will air the second part of…
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Viodi View – 03/16/2011
“If you haven’t seen it, then it is new to you.” Something like that was a tag line from NBC around a decade ago touting their summer line-up of reruns. That was in the days before DVRs became ubiquitous and appointment television still ruled the day for the masses. In those days, the PC might…