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BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK If you’re an American pay-TV provider, what do you want first: the good news or the bad? The good news is that nine out of 10 American households have a TV subscription with operators like Comcast, AT&T, Dish or DirectTV, and that they get plenty of use out of it. In fact, [...]

BLOGGER: KEN ROULIER Next time you sit down to enjoy the latest episode of “Modern Family”, you’re probably blissfully unaware of the fierce battle going on right now over how you watch TV.  And since there’s a $200+ billion market up for grabs, the stakes are high. The contenders are “traditional” Pay TV providers (cable, [...]

BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK  In the past, television was seen as recession proof. People would cut back on entertainment outside the home, but would continue taking their TV package as they hunkered down to see out the downturn.  That’s why it’s surprising that the news on the Pay TV front in North America isn’t better than [...]

BLOGGER: ERIC DANIS  While some analysts are praising Netflix for aggressively outbidding HBO for the rights to DreamWorks Animation movies, others are already saying that Netflix executives must be dreaming if they think the new deal is going to provide significant damage control after the company alienated its customer base so spectacularly. For one thing, [...]

BLOGGER: DANA PORTER    As more and more content is delivered over the Internet, consumers are “leaning forward:” moving from passively consuming content to designing their own viewing experiences. And, of course, the battle for the revenues to be gained from owning this experience has heated up. Pay-TV providers, who traditionally controlled the customer television experience, [...]

BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK Google’s decision to ask hardware partners Toshiba and Sharp to delay the introduction of their Google TV sets, missing next month’s all-important Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2011), highlights the “technical challenges that have kept Web TV from becoming mainstream.” When Google TV launched in October with its initial partners Sony and Logitech, [...]