NBC, a subsidiary of General Electric (GE), expects to make a billion in profit from digital content by 2009. This, from a company that actively tried to quash viral web clip activity early in the year, even though that one clip "Lazy Sunday" arguably made Saturday Night Live hip again -- or at least got people talking about the show. Over at our sister blog, TVSquad, Brett Love reports that AT&T is set to offer 20 web channels of broadband internet television. Right here, my colleague Victoria Erhart wrote about Time Warner's new offerings. It's a long way from the original WebTV. Al Gore (himself a TV exec, besides his other projects) believes that television needs to become more internet-like, that the internet itself is still a long ways from being technologically able to replicate television's power to reach people.
Has mainstream video content on the internet reached the tipping point? Maybe the real question is, how long from now is the day when the internet and television are the same thing?
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9-12-2006 @ 8:53PM
Joe Centurrino said...
No question. This is one of the few subjects on which Al Gore and I can agree. Involved with transformational market forces (i.e., introduced Sharp Servant PC-1977) helped focus the vast market opportunity for PC apps., failed to get AT&T to go MS-DOSS vs UNIX in 1981,too many to list). Some wins some losses. None of this makes me a visionary. I do have the simple abiltiy to see the obvious. Steve Jobs (who has been a visionary since 77) proved today we are past the tipping point.