Now that the Consumer Electronics Show mania has begun (27 days and counting…), it’s worth a brief look back to eleven months ago and CES 2007: The Headlines, The Celebrities, The (Motorola) Products. The Headlines… Nearly a Year Later It’s All About the TV/PC – Dan Costa at PC Magazine wrote about bridging the gap [...]
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Big news day. First Microsoft’s demo of Surface Computing and then… Steve Jobs announced this afternoon at All Things Digital that consumers will soon be able to stream YouTube videos to their TV screens with Apple TV. I have to give credit where credit is due. Despite the fact that I’m not particularly interested in [...]
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One of the big focal points in early 2007 has been the new media extender category. From Sony to Sling to Netgear to Linksys, everyone’s got some new retail device to network TV in the home. Without being able to focus on every gadget in a single post, I thought I’d check in specifically on [...]
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It’s impossible not to get excited about the rapid innovation taking place in Web video – from Joost’s upcoming P2P service with “real” TV channels, to Sling Media’s SlingCatcher, to Apple TV. Not everything new will succeed, but even when it doesn’t, the innovation puts pressure on video industry Goliaths to deliver better products and [...]
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There is a big difference between consumer interest and consumer adoption. People expressed interest in VoIP for years, but it never reached any kind of mass adoption until operators threw it into their triple-play bundles. Same with TiVo. Lots of people talked about how great it was, but DVRs got no real traction until the [...]
