Comments on: Europe To Join Rest Of World By Ignoring HDTV http://www.psfk.com/2004/09/europe_to_join_.html Ideas & Trends Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:50:05 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jack Sanders http://www.psfk.com/2004/09/europe_to_join_.html/comment-page-1#comment-5408 Jack Sanders Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-5408 <p>you'll all find some fun commentary on the slow uptake of HDTV here: http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=12529</p> you’ll all find some fun commentary on the slow uptake of HDTV here: http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=12529

]]> By: Piers Fawkes http://www.psfk.com/2004/09/europe_to_join_.html/comment-page-1#comment-5409 Piers Fawkes Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-5409 <p>From David Card of Jupiter Research: <br /> http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/card/archives/006649.html<br /> Posting for the n-hundredth time on the iPod makes me think about the other consumer media device that should be as exciting, that is, HDTV. What’s different about HDTV, which has just about the same single-digit US household penetration rate as disk-based MP3 players? How come no one’s jazzed about HD? (Well no one except Mark Cuban.) Here’s a few things that make iPods different. The TV industry probably can't even finesse one of them:</p> <p>- One company, one coolness. You don’t see Sony crowing about MP3 players replacing Walkmen.<br /> - New consumption mode of existing content. Carry your whole collection with you. (Buying DVDs of movies and TV shows is like this; HDTV is not.)<br /> - Existing installed base of content. See playing MP3s above.<br /> - Initiator is from outside traditional industry. <br /> </p> From David Card of Jupiter Research:
http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/card/archives/006649.html
Posting for the n-hundredth time on the iPod makes me think about the other consumer media device that should be as exciting, that is, HDTV. What’s different about HDTV, which has just about the same single-digit US household penetration rate as disk-based MP3 players? How come no one’s jazzed about HD? (Well no one except Mark Cuban.) Here’s a few things that make iPods different. The TV industry probably can’t even finesse one of them:

- One company, one coolness. You don’t see Sony crowing about MP3 players replacing Walkmen.
- New consumption mode of existing content. Carry your whole collection with you. (Buying DVDs of movies and TV shows is like this; HDTV is not.)
- Existing installed base of content. See playing MP3s above.
- Initiator is from outside traditional industry.

]]> By: PSFK http://www.psfk.com/2004/09/europe_to_join_.html/comment-page-1#comment-5410 PSFK Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-5410 <strong>Why HDTV Is No iPod</strong> In David Card's self described Why HDTV Is No iPod

In David Card’s self described

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