IBC2010 Armchair Revolution Episode 4: Enhanced TV experience for the user, enhanced profit for the industry? Part 1

Chair: Neil Nixon, editior of IBE
Given the likely new paradigm that users are demanding and the types of device that they are using around the home, what will be the winning business models? But can all of the participants in the ecosystem make money?  

TV or not TV? that is the question
Speaker: Thierry Fautier, senior convergence solutions, Harmonic
Who buys a mobile phone these days to make phone calls? In the near future people won’t be buying a TV set just to watch TV there will be buying something that will become a hub for leisure activities, especially once TVs are connected directly to the web. In the connected world there will be so much more to TVs than video. Does this mean though that traditional broadcasters will become disinter mediated as they battle to get their content on to tomorrow’s TVs which will be the key to a whole new media world?