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Strategy decay in the world of TV production

  

 

I was amazed to read in the FT this morning that:   

The cost of making a one-hour drama episode has tripled in the past 15 years ….. to $2.7m

When you look at shows like Lost and 24 you can see the special effects and other expenses that have driven [...]

May 10th, 2007 | Category: Content, HDTV, IPTV, Social networks, TV | 6 comments

Broadband television – not as big as I had thought???

 

 

By broadband television I mean TV delivered into the home via the broadband pipe.  It might be watched on the big set in the living room, on an iPod, on a laptop, or just about anywhere but it comes into the house via the internet.

 

The thoughts below are about [...]

January 15th, 2007 | Category: BT, HDTV, IPTV, PCTV, Social networks, Venice Project, Video | 9 comments

TV and Video – Its the content and convenience that counts, not the quality

People care about what they are watching much more than the quality of the picture.  This is something I’ve been saying for a long time, and posted about before in HDTV – do people care?

It’s a message that it seems a lot of people don’t want to hear.  So stimulated by Alan Patrick saying [...]

January 11th, 2007 | Category: Content, HDTV, IPTV, TV, Video | 10 comments

HDTV – do people care?

 

I was at a Screen Digest seminar earlier this week where we discussed the future of high def TV.

They are projecting that by 2010 there will be 12m households in the UK with high def ready TVs, but that only 3m of them will actually be watching high def TV programmes.

A [...]

October 26th, 2006 | Category: HDTV, IPTV, PCTV, TV | 7 comments