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No live TV streams: Here’s why?

TVs

November 6, 2011

Why inter­net TV live stream­ing has not yet become a reality.

The third screen

August 28, 2011

The next war in the inter­net arena may be for the last screen sil­i­con val­ley hasn’t con­quered: the TV screen.

Google Acquiring Motorola

August 15, 2011

Why Google acquir­ing Motorola makes sense.

Netflix Options

July 17, 2011

The recent unbundling of Net­flix into two dif­fer­ent ser­vice kinds (DVD or stream­ing) leads to rethink­ing one’s options when it comes to the service.

Apple Aims for the Living Room

September 12, 2006

Apple launches a frontal attack on your liv­ing room.

Reshaping TV

TVs

June 11, 2006

How TV could change.

2005 Predictions

January 3, 2005

Another year, another round of pre­dic­tions. As is now becom­ing cus­tom­ary on TNL.net, it’s time to project out the future year. As always, I’ll revisit those pre­dic­tions at the end of the year. Voice Over IP VoIP expe­ri­enced tremen­dous growth in 2004 but it was just the begin­ning. This year, much more will hap­pen in that space. Cable […]

Modular by Design — Cable TV

August 11, 2004

Hav­ing looked at how the mod­u­lar by design approach impacted broad­cast tele­vi­sion, let’s now look at its impact on cable TV. The FCC and the cable TV indus­try recently came head to head when it comes to à la carte pric­ing . The con­cept of à la carte pric­ing is that con­sumers would be able to […]

Modular by Design — Introduction

August 7, 2004

I’ve been look­ing at the dif­fer­ent trends in dig­i­tal media and have started devel­op­ing a com­mon the­ory in terms of the issues relat­ing to music, TV, phone ser­vice, weblogs, and soft­ware and the impact the Inter­net has on all those busi­ness mod­els. From there, I came to a con­clu­sion that what the Inter­net does well is break apart […]

Paid Content on a tiered structure

April 9, 2003

Reports that AT&T is plan­ning on intro­duc­ing a pre-paid card for online con­tent show some poten­tial new devel­op­ments in the online space. If we were to fol­low the model fur­ther, we could see some­thing new devel­op­ing, with com­pa­nies offer­ing a bas­ket of con­tent for a fixed price. For exam­ple, imag­ine you would like to get a sub­scrip­tion to the […]

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