The business journal of film, TV Broadcasting, Cable, Pay-TV, Home Video, DBS, Production in the video age http://www.videoage.org The future of television — the one that will change both the current TV business model and the way TV is consumed — can coincidentally enough be seen in Plainview (not a play on words), a dormitory community on Long Island that’s just a 30-minute ride east of New York City http://www.videoageinternational.com/articles/2007/04/iptv.html The IPTV platform will affect linear channels just as much as program rights holders. http://www.videoageinternational.com/articles/2007/04/threestories.html Toronto, Canada-based ShifTV operates OverseaTV, an IPTV platform and delivery company — currently Canada’s only independent one of its kind. http://www.videoageinternational.com/articles/2007/04/rome.html Speaking of NATPE, why is it that out of 65 total seminars at the most recent event in Las Vegas, I could only find three that were somewhat interesting? http://www.videoageinternational.com/articles/2007/04/my2cents.html In an ideal universe, government telecommunications regulators would make decisions based on what would best serve the public they are mandated to protect from unfair business practices, while promoting competition and social inclusiveness. However, in the real world, it often appears to be a case of the big business fox guarding the consumers henhouse http://www.videoageinternational.com/articles/2007/01/regulators.html The goal of Starz will be to aggregate audiences by distributing programming across multiple platforms. http://www.videoageinternational.com/articles/2007/01/stars.html Argentina is playing catch-up with the rest of the developed world in several areas: broadband, program production, international distribution, TV trade shows and changing those vestigial regulations that damage the growth of the industry http://www.videoageinternational.com/articles/2007/01/stars.html Let’s make a case for eliminating all regulatory agencies. They’re necessary, but tend to be useless. So for the sake of efficiency and better allocating taxpayer resources, all nations should do away with regulators. http://www.videoageinternational.com/articles/2007/01/stars.html