Comments on Robbie Clutton: Battle for your TV

In the light of the recent news you picked up on, ...

2008-01-08T13:52:00.000Z

In the light of the recent news you picked up on, this discussion looks even more visionary. ;)

I was surprised to be told how much it costs to br...

2008-01-01T02:16:00.000Z

I was surprised to be told how much it costs to broadcast via Freeview. But channels like E4 and Film4 nevertheless chose to move over from pay per view.

I can appreciate now thats its a very good consumer solution: you can pick up a box at Tescos, you can extend it via top-up, it has state run and private content side by side. Note that the +1 channels use abundance to reduce the need for PVR.

I think Playstation and consoles will continue to play games, because the social meta data and experience of say Youtube doesn't quite fit the console model. (And thats how I see non broadcast media going - pushed through social media. )

Its hard for Sony to come off the formula that a console is there to sell Big Games at Xmas. Whether off the shelf or downloaded. I think anything else is foreign. I can't help thinking that while Valve use Steam to push episodic releases of Half Life, it hasn't quite worked. In fact it underlined the relative success of Halo 3. Thats what the consumer wants still.

Slingbox is the missing piece to see your content while on the move.

if OLPC had an S-VHS port...

2007-12-31T15:22:00.000Z

if OLPC had an S-VHS port...

Thanks Tim,

I was focusing in on the livin...

2007-12-31T14:59:00.000Z

Thanks Tim,

I was focusing in on the living room experience, what will we actually have in the living room in the near future? Will it be customised computers running Windows Media Centre, Apple Front Row or some other computing running a similar application? Will it be what we've always thought of as traditionally a games console such as the xBox 360 or PS3 which can now also play HD content and stream movies? Will it be a box given away by ISPs like BT Vision with a freeview recorder and on-demand content? Does it have to be only one? And how, if on the move can I take advantage of that content?

With my techie hat on, it's quite exciting to think about the prospect of super P2P nodes at the exchange and online content in HD, but it has to be easy enough for my mum to use it =)

Robbie, you're concentrating on distribution chann...

2007-12-30T19:23:00.000Z

Robbie, you're concentrating on distribution channels, and without one mention of P2P or CDNs

Checkout what Bram and the BitTorrent folk are up to

Amazon want Telcos to help them build a CDN, or at least, that's what Doc sees

Then of course there are inevitable plays to put storage in operator-connected network devices

And other more OTT type solutions like wuala

Apple are bound to do more here too, you can now rent movies through iTunes.

Not to mention YouTube with High Quality on the way, and Joost, and other startups.

Looks to me like the thing to do is to get as close as possible to the customer, to the point of sale, and work out how to migrate from a centralised distribution model to a sharded, P2P model without disrupting user experience. Whoever can pull together the right P2P distribution model, where traffic stays in ISP subnets as much as possible (and better, the same telephone exchange area) will win the distribution game, with verym very low margins. The competition is on for the customer experience. Stay as close as possible to the money.

Comments on Robbie Clutton: Battle for your TV

In the light of the recent news you picked up on, ...

I was surprised to be told how much it costs to br...

if OLPC had an S-VHS port...

Thanks Tim, I was focusing in on the livin...

Robbie, you're concentrating on distribution chann...

Thanks Tim,

I was focusing in on the livin...