JamieG Analysis

A common topic I cover on my blog is what the Set top box of the future is likely to be. Recently in my post named “Discussion with Philip Hodgetts about the digital TV future.”, Philip and I covered many aspects of this idea.  Recently a number of developments connected to this topic have surfaced.  [...]

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Recently “Insight” an SBS TV show that holds panel discussions did a story called “MiTunes“.  This panel is made up of younger confessed downloaders.  A number of local semi successful artists and some heads of record labels and industry organizations.
Unfortunately, there was considerable miss-information based around the fact that most of these people are mis-informed [...]

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Recently Youtube announced a new channel specifically for producers who make news type content.
http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=Em6c795bzc0
This announcement makes Youtube a portal for NEWS by independent reporters.  Social technologies will obviously be used to bring hi-quality and items of social interest to the top of the channel.  It will be interesting to see how well this goes.
This development [...]

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Philip Hodgetts is a well known Digital Media Guru.  Over the years we have formed a friendship based around our passion for digital media technolgies.
Following is transcript of a recent discussion about future trends on digital TV.
It has some good points so I thought I would share it with you.
James
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at [...]

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The iPhone again is generating huge hype.  With the soon to be released 3G version.  Other rumors revolve around a new touch pad type device.  All this is very interesting, but I personally think its quite easy to predict Apples products.
The rule of thumb I use when predicting what Apple will do goes like this.  [...]

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