EuropeMedia: Fifth Annual TV Meets the Web Seminar: Final Report
Long, fascinating article for anyone interested in the issue of the convergence of TV and the Internet, a thorough wrap-up of the conference TV Meets The Web. The article touches on a wide range of related trends, most with three-letter abbreviations, including SMS (short message service) and its emerging relation MMS (multimedia message service), PVR (personal video recording), VOD (video on demand), DRM (digital rights management), P2P (peer-to-peer) and more. A couple of interesting highlights include:
- The MeJay — a means for viewers of MTV subsidiary's TMF channel to program their own virtual video-jockeys
- An amazing factoid: Hollywood is scared of Wal-Mart, as that single retailer controls fully 28% of all of the $14 billion market for DVD sales (U.S. only? not clear from the article). To put that in perspective, U.S. box-office sales of movie tickets last year amounted to only $9.2 billion.
To summarize this article much more would be impossible, as it is a whopper. If you care about this topic at all, read it for yourself. And if you care about it a lot, sounds like you should be attending this important conference yourself next year.
