New Amsterdam Media | Seth Shapiro » video on demand http://newamsmedia.com/blog Digital media consultants New Amsterdam Media create VOD, IPTV, Broadband TV , DVR, mobile, download and social media with some of the world's leading brands. Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:12:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 ARC: The A&R Channel Site http://newamsmedia.com/blog/2008/03/14/arc-the-ar-channel-site/ http://newamsmedia.com/blog/2008/03/14/arc-the-ar-channel-site/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:01:35 +0000 Seth Shapiro http://www.newamsmedia.com/blog/2008/03/14/arc-the-ar-channel-site/ Just back from the road after some weeks in Philadelphia, San Francisco and elsewhere, all great.

btw the ARC website has been up for some time here. Please let us know what you think and, especially, if you have any shows or artists we should be looking at. Thanks.

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]]> http://newamsmedia.com/blog/2007/12/29/thanks-betsy-and-kris-of-kroncast/feed/ 0 Chuck D: Spokesman for a generation http://newamsmedia.com/blog/2007/12/15/chuck-d-spokesman-for-a-generation/ http://newamsmedia.com/blog/2007/12/15/chuck-d-spokesman-for-a-generation/#comments Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:35:42 +0000 Seth Shapiro http://www.newamsmedia.com/blog/2007/12/15/chuck-d-spokesman-for-a-generation/ You almost never leave meetings with your heroes without being disappointed. But I had the rare joy of having my expectations exceeded this week when I sat down to interview Chuck D for ARC. If I had to pick one voice from my generation, it would be all Chuck. I’m grateful to have gotten to ask him the questions I had from watching Def Jam get built from my dorm at NYU and then seeing “It Takes A Nation of Millions” become the Sgt Pepper of hip hop. Thanks Chuck, Walter, Lathan and Brother Malik for working with us – we’re honored.

]]> http://newamsmedia.com/blog/2007/12/15/chuck-d-spokesman-for-a-generation/feed/ 0 Eight months goes fast when you’re launching a network http://newamsmedia.com/blog/2007/12/15/eight-months-goes-fast-when-youre-launching-a-network/ http://newamsmedia.com/blog/2007/12/15/eight-months-goes-fast-when-youre-launching-a-network/#comments Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:31:02 +0000 Seth Shapiro http://www.newamsmedia.com/blog/2007/12/15/eight-months-goes-fast-when-youre-launching-a-network/ And doing a bunch of other work as well. Since I last posted we launched ARC: The A&R Channel, a long-time vision of a new generation of music programming for the digital media age. We’re currently in 15,000,000 homes via Comcast and there will be plenty to say about ARC in the coming months. In the mean time, if you are a Comcast Digital subscriber please go to ON Demand/Music/ARC and check us out. Thanks.

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The cable industry had a disappointment in NY this week when Cablevision lost the suit filed against it by the major studios and networks re so-called “Network DVR” technology.

The proposed service was an alternative to standard DVRs, which place hard drives in cusomer’s homes… in Cablevision’s model, customers instead recorded programs onto servers at the cable co’s headend. They could then play, rewind and otherwise manipulate the shows remotely. This would have been a great boon for cable, as it would require much less customer support and set-top hardware for in theory the same benefits as DVR. It’s also a competitive advantage that satellite cannot offer, since they have almost no server architecture.

The studios may not like DVR but they really hated this, arguing that this service should be governed by the rights governing Pay Per View, since in their view that’s what it amounts to. And the PPV model requires an additional payment to rightsholders, unlike a DVR recording.

We can see both sides, but for involved reasons it’s ultimately fair that creators be compensated for this model. As interesting a model as server-based DVR is, it truthfully smells more like PPV or VOD than DVR. Score two for the studios.

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