We can't reduce the war between both companies to a post, too much to say and too many implications in the present and future tech world.
There is however a good article I've read today at the New York Post. Seems big media companies aren't too happy about Apple's walled garden around iPad, and not too happy either about having to transcode their existing assets to more formats, when Flash should be ok.
I think Apple's move against Adobe is bad for both companies and, specially, for users. iPhones and iPads are porwerful enough to offer the same video content we can see in any website today, but we cant access it because there is no Flash. Media companies are having to develop new sites if they want to support the iPad... and in the current environment that expense should be avoidable.
iPhone and iPad will have Flash... I'm sure about it. Apple can show us the way in many areas, but this is too big a change for a single company to force it.
One question that arises is... will Apple buy Adobe sometime?
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Flashforward cancellation sets a bad precedent
Wired is publishing today an article giving five reasons why Flashforward TV Series should continue next season (check it).
If a series such as that one gets cancelled someone is making things very wrong. Few series got more hype than it this year. The different characters are well defined. Plot is interesting (though could be improved, it has a lot of potential). There are other series (I'm thinking about V particularly) that seem much more "artificial" to me.... you can "see" the chroma keying all around!!!
But independently of my taste for series, I'm thinking about the implications of the cancellation decision in the evolving TV market, where fragmentation of audiences is speeding up and new video formats (Internet in its different flavours) are taking a greater share every day.
What parameters should be considered when making these kind of decisions? Channel audience? International audience? Internet audience? Torrent & eDonkey audience?
How can we monetize Internet & "piracy" audiences? Is Hulu enough?
With more fragmentation every day... how many "sophisticated" TV series with high budget will survive? They all will die fast it seems. A pity.
We should start thinking about what the future model for TV and Movie distribution will be... asap.
If a series such as that one gets cancelled someone is making things very wrong. Few series got more hype than it this year. The different characters are well defined. Plot is interesting (though could be improved, it has a lot of potential). There are other series (I'm thinking about V particularly) that seem much more "artificial" to me.... you can "see" the chroma keying all around!!!
But independently of my taste for series, I'm thinking about the implications of the cancellation decision in the evolving TV market, where fragmentation of audiences is speeding up and new video formats (Internet in its different flavours) are taking a greater share every day.
What parameters should be considered when making these kind of decisions? Channel audience? International audience? Internet audience? Torrent & eDonkey audience?
How can we monetize Internet & "piracy" audiences? Is Hulu enough?
With more fragmentation every day... how many "sophisticated" TV series with high budget will survive? They all will die fast it seems. A pity.
We should start thinking about what the future model for TV and Movie distribution will be... asap.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Sony brings HBO to PS3
Today I woke up reading about this:
http://kotaku.com/5546890/hbo-comes-to-the-playstation-3
When I talked about this news in the office I was told that "why would Sony need to continue increasing the offering around the PS3, it seems unreasonable... they aren't managing to get a hold of the market".
However my analysis is different... I think the move isn't to get a hold of the Console market, at least not the main objective (as a secondary objective it of course is). In my opinion the move is against Google and all the news we've been hearing of Google TV.
The "Over The Top" war is starting. These are the first skirmishes.
And the loser will be... the traditional broadcasters and TV carriers.
José-Luis Núñez
Zentym - CEO/Founder
twitter: jlnugnez
Company Sites:
http://www.zentym.com
http://www.spotaddresser.com
http://kotaku.com/5546890/hbo-comes-to-the-playstation-3
When I talked about this news in the office I was told that "why would Sony need to continue increasing the offering around the PS3, it seems unreasonable... they aren't managing to get a hold of the market".
However my analysis is different... I think the move isn't to get a hold of the Console market, at least not the main objective (as a secondary objective it of course is). In my opinion the move is against Google and all the news we've been hearing of Google TV.
The "Over The Top" war is starting. These are the first skirmishes.
And the loser will be... the traditional broadcasters and TV carriers.
José-Luis Núñez
Zentym - CEO/Founder
twitter: jlnugnez
Company Sites:
http://www.zentym.com
http://www.spotaddresser.com
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