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. He 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, blockchains, and AI, even succumbing to the atrocities of Facebook and Twitter (but then happily moving on to Bluesky).
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. Before that, he was Chief Technologist and general manager of the Advanced Technology division of Sonic Solutions, and Technical Evangelist at Microsoft.
Jim has been helping people understand technology for a long time. Here's an article from 1996, three years after the World Wide Web became worldwide, using the analogy of roads, buses, mail trucks, magazine stands, and more to explain the underlying protocols for the Internet, web browsing, e-mail, FTP, Usenet, Gopher, and other now mostly obsolete functions.
Contact: jim@dgym.biz
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Wondering how to pronounce Dgym? It sounds suspiciously like the name Jim (dʒɪm) : "dg" (dʒ) as in hodgepodge, "ym" (ɪm) as in gymnasium.