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Entries from March 2007

Internet Video Ads: A Paradigm Shift

March 31st, 2007 · No Comments

A Millward Brown study found that “online viewers were 53% more likely to pay attention to the ads during commercial breaks versus live TV viewers.”  The reason for the dramatic increase in “attention” paid to the video ad versus the television ad is that the internet video ad is the sole advertisement running during a show and the [...]

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Tags: Video Blogs · Video On the Net

Make Sure You Own Your DVR and Keep It at Home

March 30th, 2007 · No Comments

A recent copyright case held that Cablevision would violate the rights of the content producers if Cablevision allowed its customers to store the video remotely in a “Remote Storage DVR System” (“RS-DVR”) which is basically at TiVo located outside the house.  The U.S. District Court, Southern District of NY found  for Twentieth Century Fox Film [...]

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Tags: Internet · Uncategorized

Give Away 700Mhz and Fund Public Safety

March 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Last week at David Isenberg’s excellent Freedom to Connect Conference,  former FCC Commissioner Reed Hundt announced the proposal of his company, Frontline Wireless, to solve the problem faced by public safety.  The proposal, the Public Safety Broadband Deployment Plan, calls for establishing a nationwide public safety “network” build by private companies.  The under the plan, the [...]

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Tags: 4.9GHz · Uncategorized · Wireless