Interviews with Digital Media Thought Leaders

How to get Internet Video to the Television

Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on September 15, 2008

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If you would like to learn how to get Internet video to your television by using TiVo and/or Amazon.com, this show is for you. 

It is increasingly evident that there is a huge latent demand for getting Internet video to the television. It has been an elusive goal for the past eight years, or so. Now it appears as if significant progress is being made. It’s not from a single major product introduction, but instead from a number of innovations from a variety of manufactures and websites. Examples include Netflix, Sony Bravia, Amazon.com, Apple TV, and TiVo. In this video we demonstrate how it is done with TiVo and Amazon.com. Read more…

Why Blu-ray Beat HD-DVD

Podcast Audio | Posted by Phil Leigh on March 4, 2008

 
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Summary: If you are curious to know why Blu-Ray won the standards battle against HD-DVD for High Definition DVDs, this interview is for you. 
 
Subject: Our guest today is Steve Lang who operates the MadMaxMedia.com blog. Steve believes that the decision by Sony to include a Blu-Ray player in the Play Station 3 gave Blu-Ray the edge. While Microsoft’s X-Box could double as an HD-DVD movie player, the consumer was required to purchase an added external drive. 

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Sony - (1) Ultra-Thin OLED TV & (2) Internet TV Appliance

Podcast Audio | Posted by Phil Leigh on February 5, 2008

 
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Rick ClancySummary: If you would like to learn about Sony’s new thin OLED television as well as the company’s strategy for connecting TVs to the Internet, this interview is for you.
 
Our guest today is Rick Clancy who is the Senior Vice President of Communications for Sony Electronics, USA. We discuss the new ultra-thin television introduced into the States last month. It uses Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) as the light source. The screen thickness is only that of 3 credit cards stacked together. We also discuss Sony’s new Bravia Internet Video Link that brings a walled-garden (prison?) of Internet content to the television.

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