This is a group that is focused on entertainment in the aviation industry. I am attending their conference for the first time as it relates to my job at Swank Motion Pictures and what we do for our various markets. I will post my notes here.  The Evolution of Television and Home Entertainment  by Patrick Cosson, Veebeam      TV has been the center of living rooms for sometime. Conversations and culture evolve around the TV. The way we consume this content has dramatically been changing.    After TV, we had the MTV revolution of TV. It has created shorter attention spans, it made us more materialistic, narcissistic, and not easily impressed.    Then we came to the Internet. The amount of content has expanded. It contains a ton of user-generated content, provides filtering, organization, distribution.    We now have a problem. We are in the age of digital excess. We can access whatever we want. In conjunction with this – we are moving. The challenge we have now is curation.     The trends  we see: rapid shift from scheduled to on demand consumption.         A move to Internet protocols from cable      Rapid fragmentation of media      a transition from the TV set to a variety of screens      Social connections bring mediators and amplifiers.       TiVo – the shift to on demand         It is because of a time-crunch      Provides personal experiences      Once old consumption habits are changed, there is no way back!       Experiences are that people are loading up content and then bringing it with them on planes, to hotels, etc.    Rapid fragmentation of media sources         Many new professional content sources and channels, the rise of digital distribution, and the rise of user-generated content contribute to the wealth of content sources and abundant choice.      Netflix, BBC iPlayer, hulu, Pandora, iTunes, Amazon Video, Vudu, Voddler, Spotify (these companies didn’t exist 5 years ago).       People now expect this kind of consumption. People are now thinking how to deliver all these tools.       Transition from the TV set to multi-screens         The TV screen has traditionally been the dominant consumption screen for TV and video.      Now the PC, game consoles, and various mobile devices are rapidly becoming common video devices.      Multi-screens are now the norm.       Social connections becoming key mediators         What increasingly funnels traffic on the web, social networking enablers, will become an integral part of the discovery, consumption and sharing model for Television.      The revolution will be broadcasted on Facebook and Twitter.       There is business disruption         There are a lot of new entrants      Rapid internationalization      Increasing competition from existing media players      A fragmenting audience base       Web browser         Freedom to access any site      The fight over the walled garden      Most devices are not powerful enough to support a full browser      PC will always be present in the living room       Wireless link between PC and TV         Output 1080p, plays anything, secure       Key players and their challenges         Services             Internet media is increasingly interconnected to social media and publicly shared UGC        Content delivery moving to IPTV        Rights management issues are creating silos and hindering a great user experience and growth           Devices             Devices are becoming people’s windows into all kinds of media from all kinds of sources        There won’t be a consolidation of the device landscape, rather the opposite        Finding the right niche makes the most sense.            We are moving to an on demand world of streaming world. People want full access to anything.