This week I enjoyed these articles:
- Microsoft apparently killed a project that would let console and PC gamers play each other. Why? Because PC gamers would always beat console gamers. The advantage is the controller. A mouse and keyboard is much more accurate than a console controller. Anyway, I found this interesting since I’ve been playing around with Portal on Steam for Mac.
- Will Redbox begin a new service to compete with Netflix? Apparently Bloomberg said that Redbox, which provides those ubiquitous DVD rental kiosks at many supermarkets, was looking to begin a new service sometime in October 2010. No one knows whether the service will be DVDs by mail, Internet streaming or both. As far as I know, Redbox doesn’t have much experience with streaming or Internet video, so they must be getting some help with putting together the entire infrastructure, or outsourcing it all using someone like Sonic Solutions. I guess we’ll have to wait to find out.
- Comcast said it doesn’t think online video is a competitive threat. Interesting quotes from a regulatory filing:
“[B]oth programmers and consumers view online video as a complement to, rather than as a substitute for, traditional linear MVPD [multichannel video programming distributor] service,” it wrote in the filing.
But furthermore, Comcast said it doesn’t see online video emerging as a competitive threat any time soon. There are “several impediments — technological, pricing-related, and rights-related — [that] make it highly unlikely that online video will become a substitute for MVPD service in the foreseeable future,” the cable company writes.”
That is all!
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