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October 18, 2005
Just picked up a new Video iPod: A Wow!
I just picked up a new 60 gig video iPod. After using it for about an hour, all I can say is: “Wow!”
During the past hour I’ve downloaded a handful of Counting Crows videos as well as a couple of TV episodes. I’ve been impressed with both the performance of the video iPod as well as the quality of the video playback that I have experienced on my PC…and I fully expect the quality of the software to just get better.
The new iPod comes with the ability to view: Movies, Music Videos, TV shows and Video Podcasts as well as play music and view photos.
Kudos to Disney for taking a chance and providing content available for sale on iTunes and viewing on the new video iPod. It will be interesting to watch which other major studios start to fall in line and decide to also make their content available on the internet. It shouldn’t be too long before Viacom and NBC Universal follow in this path. While some studios will align with Apple and others with their competitors, this is one very interesting space to watch.
As I’ve been playing with the iPod, the experience has opened up my mind some more with regard to the “disruptive broadcasting” space and it has become clearer to me how all of these moving parts are coming together to “disrupt” the traditional broadcasting industry in a way that will blindside many. The future is here…and there is no turning back.
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Posted by jeff on October 18, 2005 05:32 PM | Permalink
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Posted by: Mark Milliman at October 19, 2005 04:20 PM
Jeff,
for a long time people have (and still do) talk of convergence. IMO it is likely that replacement (Internet swallowing telephony) is taking place rather than convergence.
The real convergence that is taking place is not telecoms+Internet, but rather media, search, "web 2.0" (my defintion is a social orientated Web), commerce and telephony. VoIP for me is something 90s. It is fact now. We are in hugely exciting times and VoIP was just a fragment of what is coming.
Posted by: Lee Dryburgh at October 19, 2005 06:52 AM