Paul SweetingAnalysis: The Value of Copying DVDsAuthored by Paul Sweeting on April 6, 2009 - 12:01pm.
DMFE: 'The First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All The Lawyers'Authored by Paul Sweeting on February 26, 2009 - 9:26am.
tags: Law | Music | Events | Copyright | Regulation | Jim Griffin | Digital Music Forum East | Choruss |
Buzz Watch: Disney Gives Grim Outlook For The DVD BusinessAuthored by Paul Sweeting on February 4, 2009 - 9:04am.
Analysis: Do the Studios Still Have Game?Authored by Paul Sweeting on January 22, 2009 - 6:49am.
Howard Stringer: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective CE CompaniesAuthored by Paul Sweeting on January 8, 2009 - 8:36am.
LAS VEGAS--The most compelling thing on display at Sony chairman Sir Howard Stringer's CES keynote this morning was a short clip from the upcoming Disney/Pixar movie "Up."
Why was the chairman of Sony plugging a Disney picture? Because Sir
Howard was borrowing Disney chief creative officer and Pixar founder
John Lasseter to shill for Blu-ray, and where there's a quid there must
be a quo. The fact that Sony is still dragging Hollywood luminaries up
on stage to defend promote Blu-ray tells you all you
need to know about where Sony really thinks about how the Blu-ray
revolution is coming along (you WON for chrissakes). "Never have I been
as excited by a technology as I am with Blu-ray," Lasseter enthused.
"Once you have it, you can’t go back."
Analysis: Cisco-Vision To Be Revealed at CESAuthored by Paul Sweeting on December 30, 2008 - 2:18am.
After talking the talk for several years (and spending the dough), Cisco Systems will take its first step toward walking the consumer-electronics walk next month when it unveils a new wireless home stereo system at CES designed for streaming high-quality audio around the house. The most interesting bit of news in the New York Times report, however, may be the other home networking ideas Cisco is kicking around.
Buzz Watch: Sin No Longer In At YouTubeAuthored by Paul Sweeting on December 2, 2008 - 12:03pm.
It was destined to happen anyway, and might be for the best in the long
run, but it's still sort of sad to see the day finally come: The
grownups are taking over YouTube. In a post
on its main corporate blog, the popular video sharing site said it is
cracking down on hanky-panky. Henceforth, the site will impose
"stricter standards" for what qualifies as "sexually suggestive"
material subject to age-restricted viewing.
Analysis: Obama Off To A Promising Start With Recent FCC AppointmentsAuthored by Paul Sweeting on November 17, 2008 - 8:24am.
Analysis: Obama's Promised CTO Should Set A New Tone For Policy-MakingAuthored by Paul Sweeting on November 10, 2008 - 7:20am.
Analysis: Bad Omen for Blu-rayAuthored by Paul Sweeting on October 23, 2008 - 7:05am.
Analysis: Is Scarcity Still A Viable Foundation For Monetizing Content In a Digital Age?Authored by Paul Sweeting on October 9, 2008 - 8:15am.
tags: Games | Video | Law | TV | Music | Regulation | NBC Universal | Film | Rick Cotton | Business Models |
Analysis: Set-Top, Shmet-Top: TV Makers Take It InsideAuthored by Paul Sweeting on September 4, 2008 - 7:12am.
The annual CEDIA Expo has been underway in Denver this week, where
consumer electronics manufacturers were unveiling their newest
top-of-line hardware for an audience of custom home theater installers.
This year's show was heavy on (very) high-end Blu-ray Disc players from
Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, JVC and others (not much for the Wal-Mart crowd there).
But it also featured hardware makers' first substantial forays into
Internet-enabled TV sets, which are designed to serve as their own
bridge between the Web-delivered video and the big-screen TV in the
living room without the need of a separate set-top box or PC.
Analysis: Media Companies like Time Warner Need To Become Enablers Of ContentAuthored by Paul Sweeting on August 11, 2008 - 7:27am.
Two items from the weekend papers had Media Wonk shaking his head over
the state of the discussion, at least in mainstream outlets, around the
impact of digital technology on the media business--which may be one
reason why mainstream outlets--newspapers in particular--are having
some a difficult time absorbing that impact. One, which appeared in
Sunday's New York Times business section, was a long profile of Time Warner and its new CEO, Jeff Bewkes. The other, which ran in Saturday's Wall Street Journal (I know, who reads the Saturday Journal? Loser bloggers in need of material, that's who.), was an op-ed by Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (Prozac Nation)
headlined, "The Internet is ruining America's Movies and Music."
Without putting too fine a point on it, it was one of the dumber things
Media Wonk has read on the subject in a long time.
Analysis: Selectable Business Models For Film and TVAuthored by Paul Sweeting on August 8, 2008 - 5:59am.
Media Wonk is still scratching his noodle trying to figure out the
MPAA's game plan--assuming it has one--for gaining approval of its
petition to the FCC for a waiver on the rules restricting the use of
selectable output controls on set-top boxes. As noted last week,
the studios' reply comments in response to other public filings was a
study in obdurateness.
Analysis: A Gracenote to the Sony-BMG DealAuthored by Paul Sweeting on August 5, 2008 - 7:30am.
Sony Corp.'s deal to buy out Bertelsmann's 50% interest in Sony-BMG Music, announced Tuesday, has some numbers crunchers scratching their heads.
Apart from the price paid--roughly $1.2 billion once all aspects of the
Byzantine deal structure are factored in--there's the basic question of
why Sony--or any company for that matter--would pay anything for a
record company these days. It's not as if you can point to a lot of
good news coming out of the music industry lately. Sony-BMG itself, in
fact, just posted a $24 million net loss for the second quarter.
Analysis: Google Blows Q2, YouTube Still a MysteryAuthored by Paul Sweeting on July 18, 2008 - 9:28am.
Google: Don't Be Evil, but Hire Good LawyersAuthored by Paul Sweeting on July 14, 2008 - 7:29am.
Analysis: Viacom vs YouTube - Education by LitigationAuthored by Paul Sweeting on July 8, 2008 - 10:25am.
Many a lament has already been sung over the privacy implications to
the judge's discovery ruling granting Viacom access to the login names
and IP addresses of all users who have ever watched a video on YouTube
as part of Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit against the Web site and its
parent company, Google. So Media Wonk won't bother going over the same
ground. (Good discussions of the issue can be found here and here.)
But comparatively little attention has been focused on another likely
outcome of the judge's order that holds potentially significant
implications for the future of the online video business.
tags: Deals | Video | Marketing | Law | Social Networking | YouTube | Viacom | Regulation | UGC | Copyrights |
Google Gets The Evil EyeAuthored by Paul Sweeting on July 7, 2008 - 5:32am.
This morning's must read: Steve Lohr's news analysis piece in the NYTimes
on Google's emerging role as the Microsoft of the Internet age. Not
just a dominant company, but a dominant company astride a core
technology of the digital economy, in this case search and search-based
advertising. Although Media Wonk and others have made similar arguments
in the past, Lohr marshals sources with actual credentials to point out
the similarities in the market dynamics of operating systems and search.
Analysis: NBC's Olympic TrialAuthored by Paul Sweeting on June 30, 2008 - 5:57am.
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