I was on a fun panel at Digital Media Wire’s Future of TV conference just before Thanksgiving. The panelists were a mix of old and new media.

I really enjoyed this article over on Silicon Alley Insider, the commentary and Henry's sweet double-negative quote which pretty much says it all. "I see almost no chance that this is NOT the future of the TV business." Similar to something our founder Jeremy Allaire said to me in late 2004 when he convinced me to leave Comcast for what would become Brightcove. TV of the near-future, which is already here for some, will look a whole lot more like the rest of the Internet than TV of today.

The Wall Street Journal is running an article this morning about the new cable company idea for creating walled online gardens of content available only to their subscribers.

"The programming available on the proposed Web services would likely be in a streaming format with ads, accessible in and out of the home, and without any additional charge to cable-TV subscribers, the people familiar with the situation said."

We are thrilled to announce that Brightcove and Fox Entertainment Group (FEG) have entered a company-wide agreement enabling Fox's broadcast, cable and studio programmers to use the Brightcove Internet TV service to launch ad-supported Internet video channels on their websites, as well as consumer media campaigns.

Congrats to our friends over at LX.TV on the great press coverage today. LX.TV, formerly Code.TV, is one of the leaders in a programming boom we've seen emerge over the last year. Like many of our other partners, LX.TV has capitalized on several shifts taking place in the industry to quickly build and launch a hyper-relevant broadband channel:

In the profile, Jeremy explains, “We envision ourselves as a new kind of platform operator, which puts the content owner in control...This gives them the ability to launch a broader range of products and have a much more direct relationship with the customer than they do with traditional cable and satellite systems.”

Brightcove is mentioned and I am quoted in this WSJ cover story about the short and long-term challenges to Comcast coming from the Internet, IPTV and other new forces.  It's an excellent piece that discusses the significant technology investments Comcast has made to improve the consumer and programmer opportunity within their walled garden.  I tried to make the point that the open, global, and direct-to-consumer opportunity that the Internet presents to content owners and consumers will b

Peter Grant, who has covered Comcast and the cable industry for some time at the WSJ, has a nice overview of the changing competitive landscape around cable. On the occassion of CTAM, he notes how both the Telco TV flavor of IPTV and Internet TV present new challenges for cable. Brightcove gets a nice passing mention as one such company in the mix.

What do you get when you cross unlimited bandwidth, cheap wireless Broadband Internet access, and any TV signal in the world? Many people have been wondering what Google is up to in apparently seeking a mess of dark fiber. Some theorize they are putting financial safeguards into place to control costs of doing business in the future. As Google’s popularity increases, so will delivery costs. This keeps things predictable.

MTV Overdrive and Turner's just-announced GameTap gaming service are the latest, most-high profile examples of a shift taking place within traditional cable programmers, and media in general. Traditional brands are quietly transforming themselves in ways far beyond even cross-media entities such as Martha Stewart Omnimedia - which has played successfully for some time in TV, publishing and retail.

The recent $18 billion purchase of cable operator Adelphia by Comcast and Time-Warner is the symbolic end of the era of the cable affiliate, those companies who painstakingly sought out city specific permits to dig holes, pull wires, and install proprietary hardware into our living rooms.