Tribeca panel talks new media

April 27, 2008 Jaman.com founder Gaurav Dhillon, NBC Universal executive vp and general counsel Rick Cott and Sling Media Entertainment Group president Jason Hirschhorn joined Rossellini and The Hollywood Reporter's Georg Szalai, who moderated, to discuss the effect of technology on the entertainment business. The larger issue among panelists wasn't if viewers would watch content on new media but how companies and artists will profit from it and prevent profit from slipping away. Part of rethinking distribution in new media is getting past the old paradigms of making some entertainment product less available made it more coveted and expensive, according to Hirschhorn.

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