Karajoz Great Blend 2005

Sunday night found me in town for Russell Browns' Karajoz Great Blend event featuring the BBC's Ashley Highfield along with several other NZ media related folk: Michael Carney (Mediacom's new media analyst), Idolblog co-founder Regan Cunliffe, Julie Christie (Touchdown) and David Murphy (interactive content manager, TVNZ) and performances from Ladi Six and Pitchblack. Ladi Six's performance didn't really do much for me - great songs and music but she seemed overly nervous - would be great to hear her performance when shes more relaxed.

Overall the evening was great fun, it was interesting to learn of some other BBC projects I'd not yet heard of, such as the iMP PVR like "catch up" TV service. I love the idea of freely giving away the content in downloadable form, even if its laden with DRM to delete/stop playing the content after a week. For the majority of TV content I don't particularly WANT to keep, but I do want to WATCH it - so the DRM doesn't really matter (I'm also of the breed of those who buy DVD boxed sets - even those of shows I have aquired from downloads).

I found it amusing that David Murphy's response to pretty much every question was "we have to fix ourselves before we can fix that" (or words to the effect) or that he couldn't talk about such things.

It was a great night out, with great coffee from Karajoz, and an enjoyable Korean dinner afterwards with Lin and Simon.

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