Thursday, June 07th, 2007 - 7:30PM Netflix Headquarters
Beverly Hills, CA
The Internet is destroying all the old bottlenecks that have limited TV-viewing choices for decades. It goes beyond putting consumers in control of the box—the trend in television since the introduction of the remote, the VCR, TiVo, and most recently Slingbox—to turning consumers into content creators. When 21-year-old David Lehre has a Web hit with “MySpace: The Movie” and lands a development deal with MTVU, suddenly industry connections and big-time distribution seem a lot less important. What does this do to television? Does it become a user-generated medium, like the Internet? Meanwhile, ABC, NBC and CBS are peddling their prime-time hits alongside user-generated content on iTunes and Google Video. Will Hollywood movie studios similarly embrace such platforms? These powerful shifts are sparking a new boom in content. Come hear these leaders in the “Video-Goes-Internet” revolution tell us what’s in store online.