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Dish Loses 25,000 Subscribers: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer August 5, 2008
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Watch Shelly’s commentary on DISH (NASD: DISH)losing 25,000 subscribers and how the teleco, cable company, satellite wars are only heating up.
US Appeals Court in NY ruled that networked digital video recorders do not violate copyright law. The DVR in question runs on a central server, far removed from the in house set-top box. Network DVRs could open a new door for advertisers, who could customize targeted ads to appear at certain times during certain shows.
STEVE JOBS (NASD: AAPL) admits MobileMe is “not up to Apple’s standards.” In a company wide email, Job says Apple should have rolled out MobileMe gradually, instead of at the same time as the 3G iPhone, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store. While MobileMe has been a disappointing so far, Job’s has given Eddy Cue, who worked on iTunes, who will run all Internet-related services at Apple.
CAPITAL RESEARCH and MANAGEMENT, YAHOO’s (NASD: YHOO) bigger institutional shareholder, claims the Yahoo board miscounted its votes during its annual shareholder meeting. Despite gaining approval by a landslide, Jerry Yang and Roy Bostock are still under fire by influential shareholders like Gordon Crawford, who has been vocal about his disdain for Yang. Stock holders are likely not to forgive Yang and Co until the stock, currently at $19.38, gets back up to $33.
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One Response to “Dish Loses 25,000 Subscribers: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer August 5, 2008”dean collins August 7th, 2008 6:10 am
First Posted at http://www.Collins.net.pr/Blog Cablevision wins on appeal:
remote DVR lawful after all Does it matter where a DVR’s hard drive
lives? Hardware from outfits such as TiVo records shows onto a
local disk, but the cable provider Cablevision decided to dispense
with dedicated hardware and a local drive, and instead it rolled
out a service where users could record shows through their existing
cable box; those recordings stayed on a remote server in the
central office for storage and playback. Content providers sued,
alleging copyright violations, and they won a landmark injunction
that blocked deployment of the system. But Cablevision appealed,
and has now won a sweeping victory that may clear the way for the
company to deploy its remote DVR service after all.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080804-cablevision-wins-on-appeal-remote-dvr-lawful-after-all.html
This ruling yesterday
http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/cablevision-judgement-20070322.pdf
allowing Cablevision to roll out their ‘remote dvr’ service where
your dvr recordings are stored at a central location is a great win
for common sense over Hollywood. However…… I haven’t seen a
single press article yet about what this potentially could mean in
the wider scope of things. I’m not sure why, I guess the press
isn’t necessarily there to ’speculate on the news’ or maybe I’m
totally wrong but if I’m right this could be the biggest thing
since Sony Betamax time shifting court case. Basically what ‘I’
think this ruling means is that the United States Southern District
Appeals Court has approved is the ‘Cloud’ification of your
entertainment content. For the first time clear precedent now
exists that I can purchase content and not need physical control of
the content - it is there for me to access when and where I want -
with the limitation that I’m the only person who is able to access
it (limiting public performance). So If I purchase a MP3, no longer
does it need to be stored on my iPod but I might choose to listen
to it on my desktop pc, or I might choose to stream it to my cell
phone or even a laptop when I’m working remotely from my hotel
room. Does this ‘Cloud’ification open the possibility of a major
competitor to the Apple dominance in music sales? Will Pandora
implement a new version of their applications? Or even does the
newly merged Sirius/XM Radio satellite content company find
themselves in a pivotal lead for a new class of ‘anywhere anytime’
content delivery hardware box? What do you think? I’d really like
to hear your thoughts on this. Does this really even matter to you?
Cheers, Dean BTW The first vendor who will accept the delivery,
encoding, remote hosting and physical safe storage of my already
purchased cd collection with a monthly fee for streaming of that
music content I have legally purchased ‘back to me’
anywhere/anytime will be sure to get my business.
http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/cloudification-of-your-content.html