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News.Com The Webification of TV is happening

"How did this happen? Digital technologies were supposed to supplant TV. Technology pundit George Gilder wrote a book called "Life After Television" way back in 1992. More recently, TiVo went so far as to run commercials for its digital video recorder showing network executives being thrown out of office windows, which didn't go over well with its investors, such as CBS, NBC, Liberty Media, Disney, Cox and Comcast.

But there's the rub. The major investors in TiVo and its erstwhile competitor, ReplayTV, included most of the other major players in traditional broadcast and cable TV. These companies have the most to lose in a post-television future, but also the most to gain if they can co-opt the new technologies."

redux [05.25.01]
Newsbytes After Dot-Com Bust, What Is The Next Step For Content?
"Michael Stroud, iHollywood Forum's CEO and founder, brought together a panel of industry experts to discuss the future of content distribution, including film, television and music, and how these varied media can work across multiple technology platforms."

"Just a little over one year ago, Stroud noted, a slew of content-related dot-coms seemed poised to change the way people view entertainment. Now, most of those companies are gone, including Pop.com, which was backed by industry titans Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard.

Stroud asked the panel two questions: what was wrong with the model, and what is it being replaced by?"

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