#SN09 Supernova/The Guide

29Nov09

Rolling into town this week is Kevin Werbach’s Supernova at Mission Bay #SN09, Scott Kirsner’s Building Audiences at BAVC, and Ken Goldberg’s Future of the Forum at UC Berkeley.  Meanwhile in Vegas, the International Film & Music Festival Summit will be training screeners and festival directors, chatting about programming strategies and brainstorming the future role of festivals [...]

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#SMWest09, SmarterTV/Epix, Easy to Assemble, Electric Farm, Revision3..

19Nov09

Good morning.  Epix is about to take the stage at this the last day of Streaming Media West.  Watch the keynote live at:  www.livestream.com/streamingmedialive/beta. Presentations this weekend at streamingmedia.com/west.  We’ll be posting the remarks here along with a summary of what was said this week by other content distributors and producers:
Emil Rensing, Epix
Epix is a [...]

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#SMWest09/Pathways Onto Xbox, TiVo, Boxee, Roku, Vudu, Yahoo! Connected TV, ZillionTV, FLO TV

18Nov09

Streaming Media West is in full swing.  With 150 speakers and 40 sessions, it is a real treat that all the videos will soon be posted at StreamingMedia.com. The video to my Commonwealth Club Smarter TV event from earlier this week will also soon be available on FORA.tv.  Between the two events, there was much discussion about [...]

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What’s On Next Week: SmarterTV, Streaming Media West…

13Nov09

Thought NewTeeVee Live was awesome, it was merely to whet your appetite for next week in Silicon Valley with my Smarter TV event at the Commonwealth Club and Streaming Media West, #SMWest09.  NYC has its own Future of TV East confab, follow at #FOTVE.  And on a musical note, Tuesday night, 6-9, there is a [...]

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#NTVL NewTeeVee Live/Netflix Toasters Before Wii, Roku Channel SDK, Boxee Box Soon, Comcast Everywhere…

12Nov09

For anyone looking to get up to speed on TV Everywhere, the only place to be today was at Mission Bay in San Francisco for NewTeeVee Live, streamed live at  http://www.justin.tv/richreader and tweeted out on #NTVL. Here’s the gist of it with video to boot:
Marc Whitten, Xbox
- Launched Sky in UK with cool friends feature
- Magical [...]

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What’s On This Week: Mobile Monday, #NTVL NewTeeVee

08Nov09

AFM is still going strong but our attention now shifts back to the Bay Area where Mobile Monday rolls into town with a focus on Brands Gone Mobile, Nokia’s hosting cocktails, sure to pack the house.  The party continues on W eve at Adobe’s VIP reception and Th with NewTeeVee Live.  Everyone will be there. [...]

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#AFM Thinking Outside The Box Office

06Nov09

We are now midway through AFM, and things are looking up from last year. Buyers are buying, but very specific in their wants.  I had a chance to catch up with John Foster, CEO, of Odyssey Pictures who recently acquired 31 hours of animated children’s content from DPM, a French-based specialty distributor of entertainment and [...]

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Commonwealth Club/The Animation of Disney Pixar’s Up

04Nov09

In anticipation of the 11/10 DVD release of Up, giddy fans gathered Monday evening at the Cubberley Theater in Silicon Valley to enjoy a special Commonwealth Club presentation by Scott Clark, Lead Animator at Pixar Animation Studios. His reel included a behind the scenes look at life at Pixar, the late nights, the swanky lounges. [...]

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#AFM American Film Market/The Guide, The Distributors, The Money

02Nov09

Much of LA becomes consumed with the buying and selling of features this week as 8000 gather at the American Film Market which kicks off W 11/4 and runs through W 11/11 concurrently with AFI Fest. Ground zero is the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel where 400 distributors are getting ready to rumble.  As the distributors [...]

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