I have you call you out on this one…

We have already done the first one… “Do it for ads first. Find a video based advertising solution that knows which half of its ad budget works.” We know, at a census level AND can verify attention as well! !! SLAMDUNK !!

We have succeeded in doing this and it’s called U.S. PATENT # 6,606,745. But guess what? So many people are trying to save their skin that nobody will do anything differently or out of their comfort zone.

We built it but they aren’t coming…

I also have to call you out on “The Great Internet Video Lie”…

Inadvertently, while trying to come up with a game show simulcast, utilizing our patented advertising mechanism, on both TV and the Internet wherein one could play on either “live” we came upon a solution To overcome one of the stumbling blocks and what do you know… WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING STREAMIN’!!!!!

Love your blog… Keep ‘em on their toes!

I recall Mark’s post a while back explaining the limitations of the three or four main CDNs so I understand why they are not good for more than a few live broadcasts or anything from one to many at one time. What is it about cable architecture/platform/bandwidtch etc, that makes it any better?

This is the underlying component to Mark’s predictions and most of you guys seem to overlook it.

Apparently,cable architecture or MORE capable than internet architecture in its current form.

I do know that companies such as Google are working to re-birth the internet and perhaps it would answer these types of questions. One to many communication is a also huge problem for internet services like Twitter telecom services like SMS.

Feel free to email me at zach.weisman@gmail.com

PS Mark, I’m the dude who asked to play Guitar Hero w/ you at TechCrunch 50…

How will a 3 y.o. know what their favorite tv show is if the web eats TV?

What internet series directly earns enough from advertising, t-shirt sales or other business models to pay its creators and staff enough to make a middle class living?

What internet series has production values equal to ‘Two and a Half Men’ let alone CSI MIAMI?

Which of these news organizations has the best journalists and the highest journalistic standards: Google News, Yahoo News, AOL News? (Sorry, MSNBC is old media centric!)

Name 10 internet only music artists who have sold as many units much as number 10 on the billboard charts?

Not to say it won’t happen, but if the internet is going to aspire to being the dominant ad medium, the internet giants are going to have to start recognizing their social responsibility in the news arena by supporting news professionals and committing far more dollars, man-hours and promotion than the slapdash efforts they have so far thrown at entertainment programming. Otherwise it will be the world’s most expensive media museum.

Obviously you are oblivious as to the thousands of folks now watching internet content on their PCs!

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From MC> Or maybe the word “primary” has different meaning to you

I live a town of 6000 in rural Wisconsin we have cable, dsl and video providers. The surrounding farms have Wireless DSL, not great speeds at 3mb, but usable. Cable, a now over 30 y/o technology, is still no where to be found. I think you are drastically over estimating the cable infrastructure.

Also, you completely ignore the customer costs in this arguement. Buy cable for SD $50/mo, want on-demand add $20, want HD add $20. Oh and don’t forget you need to buy a new $400-$2000 tv for every room you want HD in.

Or buy a 1 y/o computer from a university surplus for $75, get internet $50/mo.

As far as quality, some sites stream in HD (Fox for one) so streaming is better quality than SD.

Ease of use, my 3y/o knows how to find his favorite shows website and mouse over the words to find the videos to watch. Cable on-demand I need to know the network the show is on, and if the network has subnetworks ie. nick, nick jr, noggin, “N” I can spend half an hour to find a show.