Blog articles from 07/2011

Last week, Parks Associates held the annual 15th CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference & Showcase in Santa Clara, Ca. The event was a great success. Special Thanks to John Antonchick for blogging throughout the event and for Parks Associates’ Kurt Scherf who has provided commentary throughout. We hope you enjoy reading about the conference. Last note for now Who's the one? If I'm a pay-TV provider, I'm sweating this comment How many...

Written by Ken Pyle , Viodi View The human user interface/gesture recognition, multi-screen access to content and the cloud were three things that made an impression on Kurt Scherf , VP of Parks Associations, at the 2011 Connections Summit. Demonstrations of these technologies at the Tuesday night panel set the tone for this multi-day event. As Scherf points out, the value of the various devices within the home is being enhanced by the broadband connections made possible by...

The connected TV is on the verge of a lot of great things, according to speakers at this week's CONNECTIONS, a conference series put on by Parks Associates. Here's what we took away from some of the Connections panels. 1. The cloud is coming home. The suggestion came up that a box could send video traffic around the home network, using the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) standard."The problem today is that the platforms don't really have the memory space, and...