NAB 2023: A Year of Optimism and Challenges
by Andy Marken
NAB president Curtis LeGeyt opened this year’s conference with considerable optimism about the year ahead.
Tags:Artificial Intelligence (AI)| NAB 2023
Unveiling the Future of M&E at NAB 2023: The Battle for Mindshare and ROI
by Andy Marken
The show schedule is packed with industry game-changing sessions, discussions, and opportunities for exhibitors and their management to show they will play an important part in the ever-changing content development, production/distribution, and delivery industry.
Tags:DCC| Media & Entertainment| NAB 2023
Streaming Video is Gold: The Chaos of Content
by Andy Marken
Entertainment organizations are going through major structural changes to keep a firm cash flow. It’s all about getting a large number of viewing subscribers.
Tags:Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Market Data| OTT TV| Streaming Video
Piracy: Address the Problem, Provide a Better Option
by Andy Marken
Awhile back – quite a while – we spent frustrating days divorcing our cable bundle of hundreds of channels (we only watched a few, the rest were just “there.”). It wasn’t a messy divorce, …
Tags:Piracy| Streaming Video| TV Viewing
Changing Streaming Choices
by Andy Marken
We know you’re going to say we’re a freakin’ idiot, but we say we miss our old pay TV bundle. Hear us out… One – When we wanted to watch the news/show we went …
Tags:Streaming Video
Work or Relax, Viewing Just gets Bigger, Brighter, Better
by Andy Marken
I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation. Wednesday Addams An estimated 120,000 people from around the globe gathered in Las Vegas – double 2022 – to see what is …
Tags:Acer| AMD| Asus| CES 2023| HP| IDC| Intel| Lenovo| Nvidia| Samsung
The Virtual World May Be Different, May Take Longer Than We Expect
by Andy Marken
We don’t want to brag but we were active in the Web 3.0 world before folks decided to slap a name on it and say it will be worth $23.3 billion by 2028. Yep! …
Tags:Augmented Reality| | internet| | Virtual Reality
The industry Needs to Pause, Consider the Viewing Public
by Andy Marken
The artful master of linguistics and baseball legend Yogi Berra has been quoted as saying, “When you come to a fork in the road, Take It!” Great advice … keep moving forward. The problem for …
Tags:AVOD| OTT Video| Streaming Video| SVOD
Dream Streams – Course Adjustments for the Major Content Developers/Deliverers
by Andy Marken
For the past three weeks, we’ve had a consistent set of dreams (sometimes nightmares) trying to figure out how the sc***ed up personal/home content production/distribution industry is going to get back on the path …
Tags:Amazon| Apple| AVOD| Netflix| OTT Video| SVOD| TV Viewing
Sharing Ideas Improves Content Production
by Andy Marken
Growing up, our dad used to tell us, “You can’t put 10 gallons of stuff in a five-gallon bucket so sometimes, you just have to leave some stuff behind.” “You break the rules and …
Tags:Cloud Computing| Netflix| storage| Streaming Video| Super Hi-Vision (8K)
Bringing the Movie House Home
by Andy Marken
We really like movies. In fact, we watched two pretty decent movies last weekend. Clicked through our streaming services, found a couple on our “gotta catch this” list and watched them. It’s been that …
Tags:audio| Comcast| Dolby Atmos| Home Cinema| Home Theatre| Pay TV| Streaming Video| TVs (TV Sets)
Streaming Ads Could Benefit the Total Entertainment System
by Andy Marken
It was a sign of our times! A few months ago, the industry held its annual upfronts where network and streaming execs tell potential buyers what a powerful draw they are going to be …
Tags:AVOD| Smart TV| Streaming Video
