Consulting services from Jim Taylor
Jim is a seasoned technology executive who has seen many media formats come and go, and has shaped a few of them. Jim has moved from disk packs and cassette data tapes to floppy disks, laserdiscs, CD-ROM, DVD, BD, UltraViolet, CFF, WAVE, and more, and through Bitnet, FTP, Gopher, Usenet, WWW, HTML, cloud services, and AI, even succumbing to the atrocity of Facebook.
Jim is the author of DVD Demystified and Blu-ray Disc Demystified, the best-selling book series published by McGraw-Hill. Called a "minor tech legend" by E! Online, Jim created the acclaimed Internet DVD FAQ and served as Chairman of the Interactive Digital Media Association (IDMA, formerly the DVD Association). Jim was named a Content Agenda Setter, one of DVD Report's Most Influential DVD Executives, one of the Pioneers of DVD by One to One magazine, and received the DVD Pro Discus Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry.
Jim was most recently CTO and Head of Product Development for UltraViolet, the online entertainment ecosystem backed by Hollywood studios and serving over 30 million users with 350 million movies and TV shows in 13 countries. Previously Jim was Chief Technologist and GM of the Advanced Technology division of Sonic Solutions, which was acquired by Rovi in 2011. Prior to joining Sonic in 2001, Jim was DVD Evangelist at Microsoft.
Contact: jim@dgym.biz
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