“(Online video) isn't really turning TV upside down. It's more like TV is starting to bleed onto the Internet, and what we're going to see in the next couple to three years is a lot more advertising-supported video being brought to the Internet.”
“AOL wants to be the CBS network of the Internet, ... They want to be a broadcaster. Two critical issues to them are offering compelling media content in an extremely convenient way.”
“This deal is really exciting for the TV viewers, ... They'll be able to get whatever they want right off the TV. AOL won't be an Internet company, or even a media company, but (a) branded broadcast company.”
“Broadband created a tipping point. Broadband is a fait accompli. There are just too many people using it to ignore, and these media companies are realizing that a PC is just another screen.”
“When my wife is watching 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' she often wants more information on things Thom (the show's 'Design Doctor') has been doing to an apartment,”
“The PC industry is champing at the bit to provide downloaded movies that might compete with DVD sales, and Pay-TV services want to add movies to their video-on-demand services, to their new disk-drive-equipped set-top boxes, and to their emerging high-definition TV services.”
