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The TUESDAY INTERVIEW: Is TV’s future in P2P? ExtendMedia’s Keith Kocho looks ahead


ONE OF THE FIRST EVENTS I attended in this industry was a Christmas-timed "convergence party" at a company called Digital Renaissance in the fall of 1997. This company and other like-thinking enterprises were about to change television as we know it. The revolution was afoot. I remember a bunch of high-ranking Bell Canada people were there, so we mostly took it seriously. There were many breathless chats about how TV as we knew it was over. Well, as we all now know, that talk wasn't technically wrong. It was just waaay too soon. However, Digital Renaissance weathered the explosion of...