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Apple Storms Hollywood

September 16, 2009

Will Apple Dom­i­nate the TV and Movie Industry?

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 […]

2004 predictions: Recap

December 26, 2004

With the end of the year upon us, it’s time to do a quick san­ity check on how well I did on last year’s pre­dic­tions. Apple Scored well on the intro­duc­tion of the Apple mini, which rep­re­sents Apple’s entry into the lower end mar­ket. How­ever, no video iPod this year, only a photo one, leav­ing Apple far, far, […]

Modular by Design — Digital Music Downloads

August 9, 2004

Yes­ter­day, I looked into how the mod­u­lar by design approach impacted the music busi­ness. Today, I’m exam­in­ing how music stores are sell­ing tracks. Much has been made recently of the bat­tle between Apple and Real Net­works. After their attempt to part­ner up with Apple were rebuffed, Real Net­works intro­duced a new prod­uct called Har­mony, which allowed songs […]

2004 Predictions

January 2, 2004

With a new year start­ing, it’s time to jump back in the water and make a few pre­dic­tions as to what’s com­ing next. I sus­pect 2004 is going to be a big year in tech­nol­ogy and here are some pre­dic­tions for the com­ing year. Apple Apple will come out with a new lower-powered, lower-cost ver­sion of the iPod. The idea here […]

RIAA lost the war

October 10, 2003

A new sur­vey just high­lighted that three quar­ters of teens feel that file shar­ing should be legal. This pretty much caps any chance for the music indus­try to sur­vive under their cur­rent model. The issue here is that if kids are per­ceiv­ing file shar­ing as some­thing that should be legal, they will prob­a­bly not grow out […]

Tivo and Digital Media Servers

April 9, 2003

Back when they came out, I said that tools like Tivo and Replay could change the face of tele­vi­sion watch­ing. A cou­ple of years ago, I assumed that game boxes would be the new home media cen­ter. What I missed, though, was the end run that Tivo was doing around the game com­pa­nies. With yesterday’s announce­ment that they would […]

Memo to Media Execs

February 28, 2003

There’s an inter­est­ing Michael Wolff piece in New York about the declin­ing value of con­tent. (Dis­claimer: I used to work for Michael in the early 90s) While I gen­er­ally agree with the con­cept that con­tent is becom­ing more wide­spread and that there is an increase in the amount of con­tent being pro­duced, I fun­da­men­tally dis­agree with his assumption […]

Ogg Vorbis: MP3 Contender?

March 12, 2001

With Linux becom­ing a strong alter­na­tive to Microsoft’s oper­at­ing sys­tem, some mem­bers of the open source com­mu­nity are set­ting their sights on a new tar­get: the music indus­try. The group has intro­duced a new sound for­mat called Ogg Vor­bis, which promises to deliver bet­ter sound qual­ity or smaller dig­i­tal music files than the pop­u­lar MP3 file for­mat. Ogg […]

Suggestions for RSS .92 spec

October 12, 2000

I’d like to sug­gest a few optional addi­tions to the spec­i­fi­ca­tion. Here are some ideas I’d like to throw around for dis­cus­sion: At the item level : This would allow us to spec­ify a par­tic­u­lar date for an item. I think it would be nice for those of us who have sev­eral days’ worth of con­tent in their RDF […]