The potential for “synergy” between Silicon Valley and Hollywood continues to grow – Disney’s Bob Iger certainly is happy about it as his recent remarks to an investment banking conference suggest. Apple’s new iTV strategy suggests the possibility of rescuing television from its doldrums by squeezing a revenue stream from the new digitial video recorder technology that more and more consumers (me, too!) can no longer live without. This prospect makes the Disney CEO positively “giddy” with delight.
STEPHEN F. DIAMOND
A legal scholar and political scientist at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley.
