It’s almost as hard to dodge a story about broadband or mobile video these days as it is to find an AOL-free zone. Everyone has something to say about video and some of it is actually worth reading.
– CNET News looks at the rush to provide video storage. “… The dot-coms and dot-orgs offering to host these works for free are in it for something potentially far more valuable — the chance to control a Web of the not-so-distant future, one that’s overflowing with moving pictures the way that the online world of today teems with text and still images.” Lotts about Ourmedia.org, which has accumulated 5,000-plus videos in its two months and founders JD Lasica and Marc Canter say they are in talks with Google, RealNetworks and Open Media Network.
– Diane Mermigas forecasts “a perfect storm of change: the convergence of all-digital television transmission, the prevalence of DVR-type devices, and universal forms of on-demand content — all of it facilitated by a new standard of personalized portable interactivity.” And, she warns, “the implications of some of these rapid-fire developments are so profound that they are not easily grasped by executives searching for the next hit TV series, feature film, video game, pop song or marketing campaign.” Carve out a few minutes to read the rest.
– Peter Lewis understands the lack of rave reviews for IP VOD download service Akimbo — he isn’t too thrilled with the library or the hardware — but suspects “Akimbo will have the last laugh. Although the service is bizarre right now, it has the potential to do for Internet TV what Apple’s iTunes Music Store did for Internet music: create a vast repository of on-demand content that can be ordered with a click and delivered legally, swiftly, and relatively inexpensively to your TV over a broadband Internet pipe.”
– Park Associates says Sony’s PSP “has not yet become an immediate threat to hard-drive-based portable video devices.” In a study, only 6 percent of PSP intenders said video playback was the main extra feature driving a purchase; wireless, the hard drive and TV connectivity each was more desirable.
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