The time and place for TV Anywhere

摘要

After years of false starts and the disappointment of the first wave of mobile and internet-based TV, the time may now finally be right for multiscreen video. But key challenges remain. A few weeks ago, I sat in a meeting with senior people working on the delivery side of video. Where for years our discussions had always centered on delivering content for viewing on the TV, we found ourselves discussing the challenges in getting large volumes of content delivered to basically any device. We realized something had changed, but what? All of a sudden our minds wandered back to the late '90s, when the early new media visionaries proclaimed that, with the development of broadband and mobile internet, we would soon all say goodbye to our old, boring TVs and move our viewing to our more exciting new friends, our computers and mobile phones.