Jeff Jarvis went to the NAB and is in shock: "The convention center was packed — blimp hangar after blimp hangar and the lots inbetween and meeting rooms all around — with salaries and equipment devoted just to filling a little screen a few minutes a day."
Anyone who has read Clayton Christensen's book on disruption should be getting a sense of deja vu. An old, high-margin industry where everything is high-quality and expensive; a new emerging, low-cost industry with everything to prove and nothing to lose; the old guys refusing to see the new kids as a serious threat; and a magical, fatal point in time where the kids become just good enough and take over.
We always talk about disruption in media in the context of content and distribution--how low-budget content may one day account for more viewership than the high-end professional hits. But there's also another disription going on in the infrastructure side. Will the Thomsons and Tandbergs of this world be eaten by Apple and Adobe?
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