Viodi View – The 2002 to 2008 Era

Published by Viodi, LLC   Link to Sept., 2003 Viodi View     Fall, iTVcc advertisement Digital Cable and Satellite Television Strategies: The moderator for this session was Alex Ben Brock, Editor of Television Week. The panelists for this session were: Michael Thorton, SVP, Programming Acquisition DIRECTV Patrick Vien, President, Network Enterprises & Universal Studios…

Published by Viodi, LLC Link to Sept., 2003 Viodi View KP Goes To Hollywood – An update from the Digital Hollywood Conference – Sept. 30th, 2003 Ken Pyle A few weeks ago, I alluded to the importance of conference attendance as a long-term investment to help give telco personnel the skills they need to stay…

Published by Viodi, LLC   Link to Sept., 2003 Viodi View     Fall, iTVcc advertisement Beyond Movies: Television On Demand…. Dan Greenblatt, former EVP and GSM for Warner Bros. & Telepictures Domestic Television, presented one of the most original ideas for creating new sources of on-demand content. First, he explained one of the challenges…

Published by Viodi, LLC   Link to Sept., 2003 Viodi View     Fall, iTVcc advertisement HDTV – Not an Easy Option. Acceptance and roll-out of HDTV in the cable and satellite delivery environments is well under way, even in Europe. We are not at the tipping point yet in the USA, where it is…

Published by Viodi, LLC   Link to Sept., 2003 Viodi View     Fall, iTVcc advertisement What was shown? – Or ‘How much CAN you get in a 2 lb bag…?’ So we see a strong technology push in the compression environment, video-over-IP and video delivery in its many forms. Server technology has become a…

Published by Viodi, LLC   Link to Sept., 2003 Viodi View     Fall, iTVcc advertisement Now for my Nostradamus Impression! Last – and definitely not least! – the attention shown towards MPEG4 and Microsoft Inc.’s Windows Media 9 [WM9] was amazing! To stir the pot even more, Microsoft announced that it would be offering…

Published by Viodi, LLC   Link to Sept., 2003 Viodi View     Viodi View September Issue – Addendum IBC 2003 – A View from the other side of the Pond: Taking exception to last week’s article in which I described Peter Lowten’s journey to the International Broadcasting Convention [IBC] in Amsterdam as a “junket”,…

About Viodi, LLC Quick Jump Menu to this Month’s Articles Twenty eight days and counting…..! I Can See Clearly Now, HDTV Is Here – Or Is It? NSTW Party – Sunday in the Park, You’d Think It Was the Fourth of July Telecom ’03 Exhibition Preview: Conferences – It’s a Tough Life, But Someone Has…

About Viodi, LLC Quick Jump Menu to this Month’s Articles Twenty eight days and counting…..! I Can See Clearly Now, HDTV Is Here – Or Is It? NSTW Party – Sunday in the Park, You’d Think It Was the Fourth of July Telecom ’03 Exhibition Preview: Conferences – It’s a Tough Life, But Someone Has…