Events of the week are rather modest but as always, the signs of encouragement are out there. Listened to the Head of BBC New Media, Ashley Highfield today explain that a) video over Internet b) search and c) user-generated content are the three principal strategic areas for the BBC going forwards. And they haven't really begun to think about breaking shows apart yet.
Had a good drink with one of our "non-technical" team this evening, chuffed to hear some of the old arguments for more open access to mainstream films being replayed in layman's terms. We're getting there. A lot of what's been discussed in this blog over the last two years is now fairly common knowledge which means it's probably time to open it up!
Computer Arts - 3D World issue 72 has a great article on next-generation studio pipelines (ring a bell anyone?) and why they are still a ways off.
The long and short of it though is that only one film company (LucasFilm) has really taken the plunge and unified its systems so that game assets, print materials, web stuff etc can be plucked out of the feature film asset library easily. The rest are coming but when? It's hard to tell.
I take some heart from NVIDA quoted as saying that the main source of game media content over time will be films.