Jeff Jarvis has been collecting links on new developments in TV programming distribution:
Again, this isn’t all new but it is all coming together. I’ve been collecting links to stories that dance around all this in recent days:
: The New York Times today reports that TiVo will allow you to store and watch shows not just from cable and broadcast but also from the Internet. Soon you can create shows direct-to-TiVo.
: The BBC is going to change the way you watch the Olympics, allowing you to make your own sportscast.
: CableNewser reports that CNN is developing a broadband channel, competing with its cable channels.
: The Times also reported the other day about TV networks that can’t get on regular analog cable tiers and so they’re moving to the digital tier and then to the video-on-demand tier. Well, it’s not far at all to see them distributed on the Internet.
: See PaidContent.org’s coverage of Internet-delivered TV networks that go into boxes on your TV: Akimbo and TimeShiftv.com. And get a load of the programming they offer: niches of niches — Africa Movies, Asian Beauties, Billiard Club, OutOfTheCloset.tv, Sail.tv, The Yoga Learning Center.
: And, of course, see various pioneers who’ve been writing about all this for sometime: Adam Curry, Doc Searls, Ernie Miller, Dave Winer….
At least some of this stuff is worth checking out.