My recent appearance at the Set-Top Box Gateway Summit in London picked up a bit of coverage (mainly from CSI who hosted the event). I've been meaning to post an article on the topic of the "OTT Tipping Point", which I have been researching, but the quotes, which I really did say, that were picked up by CSI summarise the topic well. Watch this space for the full analysis. Read more →

Broadband TV News amongst others recently ran an article comparing the top 10 most illegally downloaded movies from Bit Torrent with the Top 10 streamed Netflix movies. Now I had expected the lists to be roughly the same, but it is interesting that they are not, in fact they are very different. In all the coverage of these lists no one gave any real reasons or analysis. As I’m always willing to provide an opinion I thought I would present some potential reasons for this divergence. Read more →

There is a growing phenomenon which I call second screen inversion. This is where consumers see their handheld device (smartphone or tablet) as being their primary TV device and not their traditional television set. Read more →

Before I started to write a blog I had to ask myself why? Is it just pure vanity or for self promotion. Surprisingly enough I do actually have a real reason for blogging. Read more →

While working I carry my laptop with me nearly all of the time. I carry it between home and work nearly every day. This is not so much of a problem when I’m taking my normal commute using public transport, after all I have a pretty light weight road warrior laptop, but a real pain when riding my bike to work. Read more →

A couple of weekends ago I experience TV as it use be and what a pain it was. Read more →