The ongoing shift from Analog to Digital
Chris Anderson’s Long Tail discusses the Mainstream Media’s meltdown. Readers of the Big Picture have seen this argument...
File Sharing, CD and Video Pricing
If its Tuesday, we’re talking Tunes. Today’s focus: an intriguing article on the MGM vs Grokster case this past week by...
A Few Interesting Things
A few follow ups to this week’s action: 1) Check out Rev Shark’s comments about Sentiment. He’s right, of course...
Panasonic DVD-R: $199
I finally broke down and bought a DVD Recorder. I have so much stuff on my TiVo that I was unwilling to delete (including appearances)...
New Arguments Against P2P: The Phony Moral Debate
“Its Illegal.” That’s the phrase the Recording Industry have been chanting nonstop for the past 5 years. It has been the mantra of...
Disruptive Use of Net: Peerflix
>I was doing some more research on that large CD Economic analysis (mentioned previously), and I came across an interesting new...
Dynamic Pricing: DVD versus CD Strategies
I’m working on a longer research note on DVDs and CDs, but this excerpt suddenly became relevant, in light of a few WSJ and NYT...
Burst.com v. Microsoft
>Since so many people have emailed me about this, I might as well deal with it all at once: Yes, I am on the Board of Directors of...
Odds & Ends
Its interesting when one of our past discussions comes back around again. Here’s some odds and ends that are just now heating up in...
DVD Sales Boom, 2004 a Record Year
Yet another new media taking names and kicking old media ass: DVD sales posted huge gains in 2004 for the fifth year running but the...