Posts Tagged ‘TV Everywhere’

As we bring day two of the Cable Show to a close, the Spring Technical Forum brings cable CTOs together to discuss industry innovation. Craig Moffett of Sanford Bernstein brings Michael Lajoie, Chuck Pagano, Tony Werner, and Bob Zitter together to discuss where cable goes next.

While there is a lot of big picture thinking at the Cable Show, much of the discussion revolves around much narrower topics.  The 2011 Spring Technical Forum allows innovators to present papers and that may eventually change the way operators deliver, promote and manage content.

If you’ve been able to keep up with the deluge of announcements so far in 2011 about smart TVs, connected devices, TV Everywhere, content mobility, and many others related to the convergence of the Internet and TV, then you clearly must not have time for eating, sleeping or personal hygiene!

Free Press’s description of TV Everywhere is a reminder of the admonition that people are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own set of facts.  The call for an “investigation” of TV Everywhere has no factual or legal basis, no matter how many times Free Press and its allies repeat the words “collusion,” “cartel” and “illegal.”  In the name of protecting competition, they would actually reduce the amount of online content available to consumers.

Time Warner and Comcast held a press briefing this morning to provide some details about the much anticipated “TV Everywhere” project that Time Warner Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes has been discussing for a few months including during a panel at The Cable Show back in early April.  Joining Bewkes for today’s briefing was Comcast Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts.