There is no such thing as “Dumb Broadband Pipe”. The worst thing video service providers can do is petitioning a Network Neutrality.

A recent article was about open mobile device platforms such as Android, but you see similar trends in the fixed world: eHomeUpgrade has a nice series of reports on Online Home Video Delivery that includes Apple, Microsoft, Sony, and Netflix.

Android will also pull video onto mobile platforms such as the iPhone SDK or Google’s Android, but first successful commercialization of services will more likely come from hardware vendors than from current Web2.0 applications.

TiVo announces YouTube videos on TiVo box, including YouTube’s long awaited API and YouTube Everywhere. In an earlier Whitepaper from October 2007, The Evolution of Digital Entertainment, I pointed to the new ways TiVo needs to align technology, markets,and demographics in order to capitalize on content. It looks like they moved quicker than I thought.

Broadband World Forum Americas 2007 Conference: Outstanding panel about deploying and managing large-scale wireless video with End-to-End QoS; Sprint-Nextel, Cisco, Ortiva Wireless, Mobidia