Digital Terrestrial TV in Japan

A year ago, I worked with Joel Isaacson  on a VOD / IPTV project  – and I’m still pretty interested in whats happening in digital media – especially since we got to say “I told you so”. (we predicted the death of Blu-Ray and the rise of video download two years ago). This note is from […]

Blu-ray is dead, I told you so.

Over a year ago I wrote that proprietary content protection schemes like HDCP and AACS would drive production and ownership costs of high-definition content  so high as to be uneconomical for the consumer mass market. Blu-Ray copy protection was broken in the beginning of  2007, but the  HDCP black-listing scheme defied the laws of physics […]