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This site is the new blog for “SavardFaire.tv”. Over the last year, we have made several entries on a blog hosted on blogger. You can visit that site with the link below. Savard Blogger Site

Apple TV: A test in streaming business model

These days, everyone seems to point as the Internet as the future distribution conduit for television. In fact, this has been the story for a little over 5 years now. While technically, it is feasible, the issue holding everything is the lack of a lucrative business model that can challenge the magnitude of revenue from…

Want to extend the life of your TV network? Go Live!

On demand content is the domain of the Internet. If someone wants to see something specific, there‘s no better way today than making use of the Internet. Of course, the experience is not yet seamless to view high quality content on your big screen TV, but it’s coming quickly. This week Apple debuted its new…

Future of Web and Media: Control of distribution is key

As many debates are going on over what will happen to media (print, TV, radio, music, movies) in this Internet age, I want to remind that distribution is the key. Hollywood has not dominated the film industry for years because it came up with the brightest idea, it did so because it did concentrate the…

Notes from IBC 2009 – AVID

If anything, IBC 2009 made me revise my opinion on AVID technologies. I have known Avid since before they launch and have seen them like a significantly arrogant company. They could obviously get away with it for a while when they were basically the only game in town. However, during the past 5 years especially,…