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Daily DigVid Review: Sezmi Will be a Bust, Says I
May 1, 2008
Bloggers are abuzz today about Sezmi, yet another new way to deliver digital TV to households without the cost of cable or satellite. As far as I can tell, Sezmi is a klooged-together system that grabs some stations over-the-air and brings others in via a broadband Internet connection. It can’t handle full HD, so it will download the most-watched shows in HD and them store them on your local TV set-top box/hard drive. Will Richmond, of VideoNuze, is all a-twitter about this concept, but I’m more inclined toward Cynthia Brumfield’s view that the device is destined for the dustbin. There’s a reason broadband cable and high-tech satellite are expensive: They work.
Web site providers dragging their heels on mobile should get on it. Through its new report, TotalWeb, Nielsen reports that offering a mobile version of your site extends audience reach by an average of 13 percent, and weather and entertainment get an even bigger bump. From personal experience, I will report that I was super excited to find that NPR has an application specifically tailored to Blackberry. You download the application and then you can click on it, see the top stories of the day, and then read or listening to them by calling (which just requires clicking on it) a phone number. The story plays on your device like a phone call, even though you are listening to radio. It’s a great way to kill time if you are waiting for the locksmith to come unlock your car, which is what I was doing when I stumbled up on this.
Microsoft/Yahoo! Watch: Still waiting, but Ballmer did alert employees that he “is not insane,” so that’s good to know.
And just because I feel the need to weigh in on this important debate: Yes, Paula Abdul was totally wasted on American Idol the other night. It's happened before; it will happen again.
Posted by Paige Albiniak on May 1, 2008 | Comments (0)
