Missed posting this over the weekend due to a family gathering – grandkids take precedence over blog and Twitter – so here is a bit tardy collection of selected links from my @haarsager Twitter news feed in the past 10 days. --Dennis
Consumer Electronics
- Researcher: 90% of ‘smart’ TVs can be compromised remotely. Techdirt …and… Bleeping Computer
Digital Video/VoD/OTT
- Netflix crosses 50M U.S. subscriptions. nScreenMedia
- Lies, damn lies, and Silicon Valley statistics [video]. nScreenMedia
- SVOD market deepens, broadens in the U.S. and Europe. nScreenMedia
- must read Downloading continues to gain momentum. Video Nuze
- The challenges of OTT. TVTechnology
- must read The immediate future of UltraHD is streaming. nScreenMedia
Radio/Digital Audio/Podcasting
- Voices of America. New Republic
Spectrum/Incentive Auction/Repack
- Sale of dozens of noncommercial signals in auction earns minimum of $1.9B. Current
- Craig Moffett analysis of forward auction results: 600-MHz auction results suggest cable wireless not much of a threat. Telecompetitor …and… Comcast made ‘halfhearted’ show at spectrum auction. FierceCable & Multichannel News …and… Analyst weighs spectrum auction ‘winners’ and ‘losers.’ Multichannel News …and… Broadcast Incentive Auction: Analysis of high bidders doesn’t see them all as ‘winners.’ CED Magazine
- Why Verizon didn’t buy any 600-MHz spectrum, and what it means. FierceWireless
- Post auction, Dish’s wireless bet now $21B. TVNewsCheck
- Bidders in the forward auction spent vastly different amounts per license. FierceWireless
- FCC: Almost 1,000 stations will have to move. TVNewsCheck …and… Repack notice triggers time, money fears. TVNewsCheck
- LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition vows legal problems for repack. Broadcasting & Cable
- List of new channels for TV stations that have to move. TVNewsCheck [pdf; note that the labels for current channel and new channel are reversed]
- Noncoms: FCC’s post-auction repack threatens debilitating disruptions. Broadcasting & Cable …and… APTS/CPB/PBS joint statement. CPB
- Smartphones can deliver vital public services. Brookings
Strategy/Management/Business
- must read Drawing lessons from the ‘Bezos way’. Frederic Filloux in Monday Note
Television
- DVR dead, live TV dying among the young. nScreenMedia
- must read The immediate future of UltraHD is streaming. nScreenMedia
- Researcher: 90% of ‘smart’ TVs can be compromised remotely. Techdirt …and… Bleeping Computer
