Comments on: Play.it – Can CBS do what NBC did with Hulu.com? http://www.changeitmarketing.com/2008/06/29/playit-%e2%80%93-can-cbs-do-what-nbc-did-with-hulucom/ Sat, 14 May 2011 02:12:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Play.it Review – A great alternative to Pandora if they go out of business | ChangeItMarketing! http://www.changeitmarketing.com/2008/06/29/playit-%e2%80%93-can-cbs-do-what-nbc-did-with-hulucom/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Play.it Review – A great alternative to Pandora if they go out of business | ChangeItMarketing! Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:15:42 +0000 http://www.changeitmarketing.com/?p=28#comment-16 [...] be able to do that with Play.it   .  (If you want the basics on Play.it, please see my other blog post. If you would like to read my vision for the future of radio view this [...] [...] be able to do that with Play.it   .  (If you want the basics on Play.it, please see my other blog post. If you would like to read my vision for the future of radio view this [...]

]]> By: Kevin http://www.changeitmarketing.com/2008/06/29/playit-%e2%80%93-can-cbs-do-what-nbc-did-with-hulucom/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Kevin Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:22:49 +0000 http://www.changeitmarketing.com/?p=28#comment-12 Brian, The merger will definitely help, but I do not think it will be enough to give them a big bump in subscribers. I view satellite radio as kind’ of the HBO and Showtime of radio. Great content, but not too many people are willing to pay for it. You can see this in their stagnant growth over the last couple of years. Plus being someone who has been called an audiophile, the sound quality bugs me. XM is ok but Sirius, is horrible. I’m guessing it is a bandwidth issue. Considering most people would be happy with 96K MP3’s this won’t stop a ton of people, just freaks like me. The real reason Satellite radio is not going to survive as we now know it is because of bandwidth limitations, and the lack of two way communication. Take a look at www.dash.net/ if you have not already. It is a two way GPS Navigation unit. Probably a little ahead of it’s time, and will flop, but definitely where the future is going. Or for that matter look at the Kindle, it almost got it perfect. Now how do we apply this to radio? I will talk about my visions for the future of radio in my next post. Maybe Satellite radio will change some things to make it work, but I would not count on them receiving big cash infusion to make it work. Google? Kevin Urie Brian,

The merger will definitely help, but I do not think it will be enough to give them a big bump in subscribers. I view satellite radio as kind’ of the HBO and Showtime of radio. Great content, but not too many people are willing to pay for it. You can see this in their stagnant growth over the last couple of years.

Plus being someone who has been called an audiophile, the sound quality bugs me. XM is ok but Sirius, is horrible. I’m guessing it is a bandwidth issue. Considering most people would be happy with 96K MP3’s this won’t stop a ton of people, just freaks like me.

The real reason Satellite radio is not going to survive as we now know it is because of bandwidth limitations, and the lack of two way communication. Take a look at http://www.dash.net/ if you have not already. It is a two way GPS Navigation unit. Probably a little ahead of it’s time, and will flop, but definitely where the future is going. Or for that matter look at the Kindle, it almost got it perfect.

Now how do we apply this to radio? I will talk about my visions for the future of radio in my next post. Maybe Satellite radio will change some things to make it work, but I would not count on them receiving big cash infusion to make it work. Google?

Kevin Urie

]]> By: Brian Crouch http://www.changeitmarketing.com/2008/06/29/playit-%e2%80%93-can-cbs-do-what-nbc-did-with-hulucom/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Brian Crouch Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:26:36 +0000 http://www.changeitmarketing.com/?p=28#comment-11 Hi Kevin, How do you see this connecting with Sirius and XM? Hi Kevin,

How do you see this connecting with Sirius and XM?

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