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Listen to the podcasts here:

Part 1:
http://podcasts.chinwag.com/cl8-part01.mp3

Part 2:
http://podcasts.chinwag.com/cl8-part02.mp3

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“Heard Alex Cameron from Digital TX giving it the big one last night at Chinwags TV on the Web thing. I’ve been a bit of a fan since his glorious, if slightly flawed, Hendrix inspired rant at BT Vision’s iptv-lite last year.”
http://eaonpritchard.blogspot.com/2007/09/revolution-will-be-televised.html”

Alexander Cameron, MD of IPTV consultancy Digital TX, told Web TV Takeover, a Chinwag panel in Soho, London, tonight: ”There’s a war on the way and the BBC is going to kick it off. If you try and do the maths of sending video down a national network, it just does not work. Ultimately, the strain’s going to be too hard, the ISPs are going to kick in and … say to peer-to-peer guys like the BBC, 4OD and Lovefilm ‘no more video’.” Cameron estimated it would cost an ISP between £500,000 and £800,000 a year to cope with the additional demand of P2P-based online TV distribution. “It’s at risk, it’s going to die if they carry on.”
http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-p2p-tv-net-neutrality-are-we-heading-for-war/

“May I congratulate you for your wonderful input on this event. It was a pleasure listening to your points & arguments – a great speaker, indeed. Very well done!”
Patrick Ropeta, event Chairman

“The whole nascent IPTV market might end up being strangled at birth by ISPs refusing to bankroll the bandwidth needed for massive file downloads and online video streaming. (This last debate almost caused a fight to break out in the audience, which was quite exciting.)”
http://web2watch.blogspot.com/2007/09/free-to-those-who-can-afford-it-very.html

“The conversation then turned to piracy with Alex Cameron pointing out that piracy was actually what people were doing most (the ‘predominant business model’ as he put it). Clearly the digital video content market will face many of the challenges of the music market in coming to terms with that.”
http://usin.wordpress.com/2007/09/23/tubular-vision/

I’ll leave you with one final thought from one of the panel, Alexander Cameron, managing director of Digital TX Limited: “Piracy is a business model and currently it’s winning.” I couldn’t agree more and it will continue to win as long as the industry fails to deliver what the viewers want.
http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/364249/the-murky-cloud-of-iptv.html

“It was my first time to a Chinwag event last night, and I’d like to write and tell you how thoroughly impressed I was by the ethos of the panel and entire experience. I’d particularly like to point out Alexander from Digital TX who I think made a phenomenal contribution. His contribution was thought provoking, well backed by experience and extremely insightful. I think with his charisma and knowledge of the industry he’d be an excellent chairman for any future sessions. ”
Antony Gell

“Alex Cameron is a well known and well respected expert in IPTV. He provides continuous insight into a world which could change the basis of that thing we call the internet. Specifically, how content is handled both in distribution and consumption. Although I know Alex and we often muse over things inbetween London meetings etc. I was still surprised and further inlightened by his comments on traffic shaping and the potential changes in ISP’s. ”
http://democratise.blogspot.com/2007/09/traffic-shaping-and-isps.html

“In January 2006 a fantastic article titled IPTV: the Great Content Adventure by Digital TX director Alexander Cameron appeared on Netimperative.com that explained a hell of a lot and gave me that hairs-standing-up-on-back-of-my-neck sensation.”
http://innovationeye.wordpress.com/2006/05/21/here-comes-iptv-the-open-4th-platform/

“And thanks Alex for throwing the cat amongst the TV pigeons. The debate certainly covered an awful lot of ground and you guys didn’t even get to talk about rights. Round 2 sometime soon perhaps?”
Sam Michel, Chinwag Director

“On the point of Business Models - one of my colleagues (Alex) last night felt that these were irrelevant, what counted was making money. I cannot recommend this approach highly enough.”
http://broadstuff.com/archives/427-The-Broadstuff-Web-TV-Business-Plan-Selecta.html