By Ben Homer, April 7th, 2009
One has to imagine that Microsoft, MLB Advanced Media’s former streaming partner since day 1 of MLB.TV has to be pretty pissed to watch Adobe steal their thunder and take over their largest client from Silverlight. Flash is clearly winning the battle with Silverlight. MLBAM CEO Bob Bowman’s take on why Flash won out for [...]
By Ben Homer, October 31st, 2008
In a week that saw more companies shedding jobs and packing it in for the recession, there was also a lot of positive including news of digital syndication deals designed to push more content to more screens.
I may be a contrarian, but I’m looking forward to the “Internet Winter.” The constriction of available capital should [...]
By Ben Homer, October 23rd, 2008
Blockbuster stock is in the toilet. West Coast Video, Hollywood Video and other similar chains have been in and out of bankruptcy, and have closed down many stores, remaining chain and independent video store days are numbered.
Now that video can be delivered efficiently online, retail store costs and even sorting and shipping facility overhead are [...]
By Ben Homer, July 23rd, 2008
The LA Times reports today that Netflix will shut down their independent film division Red Envelope. Led by head of acquisitions Liesl Copeland it offered a completely independent channel for distributing DVDs to a base of millions, without studios, no small thing.
This may be the right move financially, but it’s a blow to independent producers [...]
By Ben Homer, July 14th, 2008
Yeah, the title’s pretty bad but I’m coming off of a vacation so give me a break. Microsoft which has already announced numerous content deals for XBox Live this year announced today at E3 that they will will soon offer access to the 10,000 + titles in the Netflix streaming library to existing subscribers.
The blogosphere [...]
