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ITV veteran, John P. Roberts , SVP of Digital Content & Cross-platform Entertainment at The Hub , contacted us to tell us his good news. John and his wife, Christie, have had their first child called Jason Patrick recently on February 28th at 1:53 AM! He weighed weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz. We're very happy for you!! -- Tracy Swedlow, [itvt]

In Consumer Electronics vis a vis the General Public all the 'Tech Specialists' of the world assume that everyone understands technology the way they do. The world is naturally more sophisticated, people are more tech savvy and there is definitely a trend towards a better understanding of a very complex TV world but fundamentally we must not believe all the hype. Most people do not understand television technology (80%)! Even High Definition is confusing to people. In fact a recent report in the Telegraph regarding real transmission quality amongst the UK HD broadcasters only highlighted that the average consumer is being duped…by the very industry that is selling the new technology dream.

Maybe it’s just me, or maybe it’s just the past few weeks, but this New Media landscape is starting to look like “ Arrested Development .” It seems like everybody wants a piece of the other guy’s action, and nobody’s happy unless they’re finding a way to get the upper hand. I had no sooner gotten over David Streitfeld’s piece in the New York Times last week about how nobody—not Google, Facebook, Apple or Amazon—will...

FROM WEB VIDEO TO DUAL SCREEN I caught up recently with David Kaiser, CEO of Coincident, and John Gilles, EVP of Sales and Marketing to learn more about what Coincident has accomplished over the past several years and to see a demo of their just launched ScreenSync TV . You may be familiar with Coincident, a start-up based in San Francisco, because of their Glee Superfan Experience from 2010, which enabled viewers to watch repeat...

Reactive posts are typically not my cup of tea, but sometimes a necessity to convey specific and necessary points of view. This one is going to be brief and I am going to keep it simple, but it needs to be stated and understood in it‘s larger implications. There is a rather pervasive thought being thrown around about the nature of television with consideration on the growing death of group watching behaviors. I wanted to...