Dan Rayburn

Breakdown Of U.S. Sales Numbers for Broadband Enabled Devices

Minutes is what matters, not number of videos. Lets say I said 1 million videos were downloaded. That does not tell you anything since you have no idea how long each video is and they all range in length. Minutes is the best way to do it, which is why Xbox gives it out that way. You're comparing songs on iTunes, which are nearly all the same length, to videos on Xbox which are all different in length. One has nothing to do with the other.

Blockbuster Still Lacks a Digital Media Strategy, Ten Years Later

I'll simply repeat myself again, I don't own any stock in Blockbuster, no shares or bonds. I don't have anything to gain financially from Blockbuster, Netflix or any other entertainment company. I know it's hard to believe, but someone can actually write about a company as a neutral person without having some sort of vested interest in the company.

Blockbuster Still Lacks a Digital Media Strategy, Ten Years Later

@sl62: This not about Blockbuster "conforming to my standards" or not being "digital enough for my taste" or even the "pace I want them to change" at. This is not about me, it's about the market.

The change in the market is not my "opinion", it's fact. Apple has now sold over 200 Million TV episodes via iTunes. Sold over 2M feature-length films via iTunes. Netflix got over 1 million subscribers to use the streaming service via the Xbox 360 in the first 3 months of it launching.

You say that "In my humble opinion, BBI is still a viable player in the space and will continue to be so for many years to come as they change with the industry." Yes, they are a viable player, but even you don't say "in the digital media arena".

No doubt I will be re-visiting this issue a year from now and I'll make you any bet that you want that Blockbuster won't be able to show us any viable, tangible, measurable result, of what you say their digital media strategy is.

Blockbuster Still Lacks a Digital Media Strategy, Ten Years Later

Since I am not a shareholder of Blockbuster, or any other company for that matter, and have no vested interest in them at all financially, I have nothing to "get over".

Anyone can ramble on with a response that includes no real data to back up their arguments, but the fact remains that Blockbuster has absolutely zero traction today for any kind of digital media strategy.

Review: Hands On with Amazon on the Roku

The only reason I have so many boxes is that I do reviews of many of these devices and hence need to have them on hand to see their latest video offerings. I don't expect an average user to have as many boxes as I have and if I was not in the industry, I would only have a TiVo (used as my cable box with cable cards) and an XBOX 360.

Limelight and Akamai Have No Threat by Amazon's New CloudFront Service

Amazon says that when it comes to CloudFront specifically, they do not have better pricing for larger customers. When I asked about lower pricing for higher volume customers they went on record to say, "we are not making custom deals for CloudFront".

Netflix May Dominate The Online Video World, But With What Business Model?

Again, Apple and iPods have nothing to do with Netflix. iPods don't stream content, it plays content that has been downloaded. And all Netflix has said is that their streaming service for the PC will support Mac's at some point. Nothing Netflix offers has to do with downloads to an iPod.

Netflix May Dominate The Online Video World, But With What Business Model?

What does "video downloads" have to do with Netflix? Netflix's watch now service, XBOX 360 service and Roku service are all streaming based services, with no downloads. It's a completely different service offering than Apple's.

Amazon's AWS Won't Compete With CDNs

That is a short list. For a detailed list of CDNs globally, including P2P based solutions, there are over 60 providers. You can see the list at www.cdnlist.com

Amazon's AWS Won't Compete With CDNs

If you don't know what the term "CDN" means, then this article is not for you.

Disclosure: I am not working for any CDN and have disclosed this on my blog numerous times. I could not make it any clearer. See my post entitled:

Investors: I Don't Work For Any Content Delivery Network (CDN)
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This article is about Amazon and content delivery. I don't work for Amazon and I don't work for any CDN. You can try to "imply" a conflict exists, but readers should only be interested in facts.