Piracy Once Again Fails To Get In Way Of Record Box Office http://tinyurl.com/5stn339
It seems strange to me that the various movie company players continually bleet how piracy is killing their industry and yet – even without changing business models – they still have record year after record year. Something just doesn’t add up.
With the advent of high quality acquisition tools for relatively little money, is there really a role for the highest quality production outside of niches?
Terry and I have different understandings and it makes for an interesting show.
Attack of the Minis http://tinyurl.com/46an3wm
Light Peak is an interesting technology and one I want to see sooner rather than later. Essentially it’s one connector for all purposes: peripherals (storage, i/o), networking (short distances in first release, longer later) and a replacement for the connectors we use now (which will largely work with adapters. The only protocol that may not run over Light Peak is USB 3, but USB 1 & 2; FireWire 400/800, eSATA, SAS ethernet and Fibre Channel could all be replaced with a single Light Peak connection at 10 Gbits/sec.
Nice To See How Content Creators Have More Power Over Middlemen http://tinyurl.com/4uze8py
One of the primary pieces of advice from Distribution U’s Peter Broderick an Scott Kirsner is that independents should never assign all their rights to one distributor who then controls their fate. This requires a custom distribution strategy tailored to each project, but ultimately with the filmmaker having a lot more control.
Online Consumption of Pro Video Up 47% in 2010 http://tinyurl.com/62zf3ok
“The essence of being human involves asking questions, not answering them”
It’s the final  end quote from http://tinyurl.com/6bful7u on Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Assistance (unrelated to my company) that comes out of a NYT writeup of IBM’s Jeopardy playing Watson.
Letter 2 Broadcast Dinosaurs Bent on Self-Destruction http://tinyurl.com/4gbjmb5
Episode 19: Starting over in a “Green field†revisited. http://tinyurl.com/4suc5bu New episode of The Terence and Philip Show: a clean start.
MPEG-LA starts patent move on VP8Â http://tinyurl.com/6eqphma
One of the things that has worried me about VP8/WebM is that Google has refused to indemnify users from patent issues. To me that’s a huge worry, and now MPEG-LA has started the process of establishing whether or not VP8 does (or does not) infringe any of its members’ patents.
Subscriptions: The Secret to a Sustainable Web Series? http://tinyurl.com/6jz8k5s