Jimmy Schaeffler

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OVD Stakeholders in OTT-Land: Internet, Mobile and Online Video Magic

Four decades ago, when broadcasters began to really have to deal seriously with cable operators as rival forms of video distributors, most observers felt the promise (or threat) of cable change was pretty obvious. Jump forward about a decade, and the threat or change that was represented by Direct Broadcast Satellites (DBS), was in a similar category: most who knew the industry suspected it... More

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OTTCon 2012: Santayana and Learning From The Past?

It’s been more than a decade since I saw, in person, the former head of and founder of ReplayTV. His name is Anthony Wood, and he used to attend and speak at conferences produced by my company, The Carmel Group. We had fun reminiscing recently for a few precious moments at the 3d annual OTT Con in Santa Clara, Calif., from March 20-21 Yet, it is fascinating to note that Wood today... More

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Satellite 2012: OTT-Broadband TV Is Here, What's Next?

My 20th Satellite Name-The-Year event just came and went in Washington, DC, March 14-16. And thus far, 2012 is already clearly a year of yearning for the world’s satellite providers. They yearn for the good old times of the past, but, more importantly, they yearn for a clearer future. That is because on the business-to-business side, terrestrial fiber threatens to take business away... More

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Digital Signage Exposition 2012: Growth Industry

As part of a recent client business plan - written for a client in the laundromat business, called Clean View Media Network (CVMN), wishing to use digital signage in dryer doors — we ran across a graphic that told so much about where the digital signage industry is today (and will be tomorrow). The graphic compared the laundromat industry’s rating of “flat”, to... More

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CalPlug 2012: Looking Entirely Differently at Electricity and Set-top Boxes

A handful of weeks ago, I was asked to serve on an “expert panel” at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) covering the topic of America’s set-top pay TV boxes (STBs). The event was called “CalPlug,” this iteration focused almost primarily on the topic of saving and using less electrical energy in the hundreds of millions of STBs that frequent, indeed,... More