Embrace the Video iPod

摘要

Chicken Little analysts are always foreseeing doom for "old" media every time some form of "new" media pops up. As if podcasts, blogs and cellphone TV weren't bad enough, some on Madison Avenue are perturbed by Walt Disney Co.'s decision to distribute ABC prime time series such as Desperate Housewives and Lost as iPod video downloads. They fear that the downloads will undercut regular TV ad sales.