Anthony Rose's blog

Occasional thoughts on media, technology and product design that may be of interest to others

Anthony Rose

I’m a technologist with a love and knack for creating disruptive mass-market consumer products in the music and video spaces.

I headed up BBC iPlayer from 2007 to 2010, taking it from pre-launch to major success story. But consumers want all their media in one place, and so in May 2010 it was time for a natural progression to YouView to create an open next-gen connected TV platform with aggregated content from lots of providers.

Before the BBC I was at Altnet and Kazaa, creating a digital music store and download application. And before that I was at Brilliant Digital, building a real-time 3D engine and tools for creating interactive branching-plot movies. Ironically it seems we were about 15 years too early, with the new generation of connected TVs leading to a rebirth of this medium.

Before getting into 3D and software, I was into electronics design. I’m pretty sure I was the only kid on the block with a conveyor belt surface mount reflow soldering machine and robot pick ‘n place circuit assembly machine in my study…

I’m now working on my next venture, currently in stealth mode. You can probably make an educated guess as to what space it might be in… If all the pieces come together it could be pretty big – watch this space!

anthony [at] peerspace.com
Skype:existential

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