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Weekly Rewind: Analyst Calls Pay TV Prices a 'Train Wreck in the Making'

October 5, 2012
By Adam Sewall

Is pay TV too expensive? Craig Moffett at Bernstein Research thinks so, calling it "a train wreck in the making."

Women typically watch more TV than men, but game consoles are helping narrow the gap.
 
 
Xbox's a popular console for streaming online video, but would you use it for music? Reports are saying it will launch a music service by the end of the month.
 
 
Analog and digital collide. The CW embeds a Twitter feed in an Entertainment Weekly print ad.
 
Completion rates reach 98 percent when viewers opt into online video ads, a study found.
 
GigaOm has a great compilation of the different Internet service providers and details of their data caps.
 
Toys 'R' Us launches a video service. There is no monthly subscription fee, but TV shows begin at $0.99.
 
YouTube' InVideo Programming allows users to feature a video within their other videos. (Does this sound like a 21st century "Hamlet"?) The new feature can also brand all videos with an icon.
 
YouTube has a new appeals process for copyright infringement, letting users file an appeal with the content owner who can rescind the original complaint or file a takedown notice.
 
"Netflixed," written by a former Reuters reporter, is the culmination of two years covering the Internet streaming company. An interesting tidbit from a Q-and-A with Gina Keating: CEO Reed Hastings has "an emotional IQ of zero."
 
 
 
Here's an interesting strategy. Pour millions into high-budget productions, not for bonkers Nielsen numbers but instead critical acclaim. That's the story of Showtime's "Homeland" -- which costs about $3 million an episode and recently won three Emmys -- and other originals by cable networks.
 
Kids are exposed to about four hours of background TV a day, which has been linked to lower sustained attention, quality parent-child interaction and performance on cognitive tasks.
 
AOL's online video library is now on YouTube.
 
Old Spice's viral campaign has skyrocketed to the top 20 Web video ads.
 
The WSJ has an interesting story on how YouTube plays a critical role in its social fabric, aka Google Plus.
 
Redbox might be readying a streaming service by year's end, but it's also eyeing ticket sales. Parent company Coinstar began selling tickets to live events at its kiosks in Philadelphia, levying a flat $1 fee surcharge.
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