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Over the past few years public libraries in the US have steadily increased the number of titles offered in that format. Some of the nation's larger libraries have in excess of ten thousand titles ...
Date: 13 May 2008 15:05 | 24 comments
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Although it has said for years that all digital downloads should have standard pricing, it seems Apple will finally acknowledge that not all TV shows are equal or will sell for the same price.
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Date: 13 May 2008 05:05
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Although there have been rumors swirling for months that it was going to happen, TiVo has officially confirmed that Amazon Unbox will be going HD.
"Unbox, the content-downloading service ...
Date: 12 May 2008 07:05 | 1 comment
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The popular music community site Last.fm has launched its own online channel for video interviews, starting a trend of original content production it hopes to continue into the future.
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Date: 9 May 2008 18:05
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Sony's PlayStation 3 has hit a milestone in Europe by finally passing the Xbox 360 in total console sales despite the lowest priced PS3 costing nearly twice as much as the entry level version ...
Date: 7 May 2008 14:05 | 28 comments
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It appears Microsoft has chosen to compete directly with rival Apple's iTunes store by selling television shows at its own store for use with the Zune. Microsoft announced yesterday that it ...
Date: 6 May 2008 18:05 | 3 comments
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On May 1 Sezmi Corporation announced a service intended to compete with both cable and satellite television services in the U.S. The service, also called Sezmi, uses a combination of broadband ...
Date: 5 May 2008 05:05 | 2 comments
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Zattoo, a company based out of both Switzerland and the US, by streaming live TV signals from the UK without authorization from the original broadcaster. The broadcasts are available for free ...
Date: 2 May 2008 15:05 | 2 comments
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Apple has made it clear in recent months that they believe their iTunes online store is capable of taking the lead in online movie downloads in much the same way it practically created the ...
Date: 1 May 2008 17:05 | 2 comments
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The Warner Bros. Television Group is set to resurrect its now defunct WB network as an online video site that will offer reruns of past popular shows such as "Friends" and "Buffy the Vampire ...
Date: 28 Apr 2008 23:04 | 3 comments
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It appears that online DVD rental giant Netflix, whose streaming video service has become very popular with customers, appears ready to make a major move into the set-top box market. Early this ...
Date: 23 Apr 2008 03:04 | 8 comments
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It's no secret the as DVR ownership has increased over the last few years, many people now see commercials as a nuisance to be skipped. In their search for a solution to this potentially very ...
Date: 22 Apr 2008 04:04 | 9 comments
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France's largest retailer, the Carrefour Group has announced that they will be launching a movie download service that will allow customers to buy or rent movies and TV episodes.
The Group ...
Date: 19 Apr 2008 22:04 | 2 comments
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Yet another new, innovative Internet music service has arrived. PluggedIn has launched with 10,000 free high-def music videos from studios such as Sony BMG and EMI. The service was launched ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 00:04 | 2 comments
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MySpace TV has announced that it has signed a content distribution agreement with ShineReveille. The new international partnership will allow ShineReveille "to distribute MySpace TV series’ ...
Date: 15 Apr 2008 21:04 | 1 comment
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The large British retailer Tesco has announced that it will be launching Tesco Downloads, a digital and video store.
The service will be similar to that of Amazon and Wal-Mart which offer ...
Date: 15 Apr 2008 20:04 | 3 comments
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Multicast Media Technologies, Inc. has announced the availability of turnkey live streaming using Adobe Flash Media Encoder as part of Multicast's Vidego Internet Video Platform. With Vidego ...
Date: 14 Apr 2008 22:04
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Following the announcement of iPlayer support in Nintendo's Wii video games home console, and the subsequent revelation that the lack of support for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 (PS3) was due ...
Date: 13 Apr 2008 07:04 | 6 comments
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Sun has revealed that it is developing a royalty-free and open video codec and media system. Company officials made the announcement at the Sun Labs Open House event in Menlo Park, Calif. "The ...
Date: 12 Apr 2008 01:04
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Eight teenage girls who assaulted another girl they had lured into a house before posting a recording of the incident to YouTube had done so to gain worldwide exposure. The use of the Internet, ...
Date: 12 Apr 2008 01:04 | 52 comments
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After banning access to the site on Tuesday, Indonesian ISPs have now stopped blocking YouTube and other file-sharing Web sites. The sites had been blocked because an anti-Islam film produced ...
Date: 11 Apr 2008 20:04
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been locked into a war of words with Internet Service Providers (ISP) in the United Kingdom about who should be responsible for upgrade costs required ...
Date: 11 Apr 2008 03:04 | 2 comments
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As we previously reported on AfterDawn, Flickr added a new video service to its site just days ago, allowing users to upload short-clips to the photo-sharing service. These days, online video ...
Date: 11 Apr 2008 03:04 | 2 comments
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Home video rental giant Blockbuster is reportedly planning to offer a set-top device that can delivery video from the Internet directly to a television. This would put Blockbuster in direct ...
Date: 11 Apr 2008 03:04 | 9 comments
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News Corp.'s social-networking giant MySpace.com has struck a deal with British media company, ShineReveille International, to make its content available on broadcast television outside the ...
Date: 11 Apr 2008 03:04
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As we previously reported, there had been a call on Internet Service Providers (ISP) in Indonesia to block access to YouTube due to the availability of an anti-Koran video. The video, titled ...
Date: 10 Apr 2008 04:04 | 2 comments
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Flickr, the well known photo sharing site, has announced that it will begin offering video Streaming in an effort to rival the dominant market leader, YouTube.
Flickr, which is owned by ...
Date: 9 Apr 2008 20:04 | 3 comments
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The world's largest video-sharing website, YouTube, has teamed up with The Rolling Stones to launch a new entertainment channel for fans. A statement from Universal Music Group and the band ...
Date: 4 Apr 2008 23:04 | 1 comment
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Adobe Systems Inc. has started public trials of its software delivering television shows to viewers over the Internet. The planned service will provide ad-supported subscriptions to viewers ...
Date: 3 Apr 2008 23:04 | 3 comments
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Popular video sharing entity Blinkx is offering a new service called BBTV. The Joost-like service combines video content with speech and visual recognition technology, and combines the video ...
Date: 3 Apr 2008 05:04
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Indonesia is requesting that Internet Service Providers (ISP) block access to YouTube in response to a video posted by a Dutch lawmaker. The video in question accuses the Koran of inciting violence. ...
Date: 3 Apr 2008 04:04 | 31 comments
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Sony Pictures launched a new service on Monday called PIX that will lead to full-length movie viewing on AT&T mobile phones soon. The PIX network is a domestic service that will allow viewers ...
Date: 2 Apr 2008 04:04 | 1 comment
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Microsoft has announced a partnership with the Safran Digital Group that will bring original content to gamers via Xbox Live.
SDG added that "full details of film-makers, talent and specific ...
Date: 31 Mar 2008 19:03
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The giant video sharing site YouTube has removed a few video clips that had prompted Turkish authorities to Block access to the site in January. The company hopes the move will lead the Turkish ...
Date: 27 Mar 2008 19:03 | 21 comments
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Netflix has announced that it will be giving all customers affected by Monday's outage a 5 percent credit on their monthly bill.
Netflix spokesman Steve Swasey would not give the total amount ...
Date: 26 Mar 2008 22:03 | 18 comments
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Earlier this year I was forced to find a replacement for Windows Media Center in order to use the latest version of Windows Media Player to support the Netflix Streaming service's DRM. After ...
Date: 26 Mar 2008 17:03
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In an email notification to users, Peerflix has announced that it will cease operations of its DVD trading service. Peerflix competed with rental services like Netflix, but differed because ...
Date: 26 Mar 2008 06:03 | 3 comments
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Starz has announced it is now offering its TV series on Apple's iTunes platform, marking the second time a premium network has offered its programming on the platform.
Marc DeBevoise, Senior ...
Date: 25 Mar 2008 22:03
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Netflix, one of the worlds best known DVD rental services, has revealed that it has been surveying its subscribers to analyze the level of interest in streaming Netflix movies to the Xbox 360 ...
Date: 25 Mar 2008 21:03 | 5 comments
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the hit show South Park have announced the launch of a website that streams every episode of South Park ever created, and for free.
The site, ...
Date: 25 Mar 2008 18:03 | 16 comments
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Netflix, a leader in online video rentals, suffered a "technology breakdown" on Monday that affected many areas of the Los Gatos-based company's operations. The company's website, a vital component ...
Date: 25 Mar 2008 00:03 | 21 comments
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Canada’s public television broadcaster CBC has announced that they will be releasing the upcoming TV show “Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister” for free via torrents. The move marks the first ...
Date: 22 Mar 2008 21:03 | 4 comments
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The Chinese government will be shutting down or "punishing" dozens of video-sharing sites that carry content deemed pornographic, violent or a threat to national security, announced a regulator ...
Date: 21 Mar 2008 22:03 | 6 comments
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Today we have another new guide, this time on installing and configuring AC3Filter. Like most of the tools I've been writing about recently, AC3Filter is free and yet full featured and quite ...
Date: 21 Mar 2008 07:03 | 7 comments
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Last week we reported that Panasonic announced two new DivX Certified Blu-ray players, DMP-BD30EG and DMP-BD30EE. Now DivX, Inc. announced in a press release that they have granted DivX Certificates ...
Date: 17 Mar 2008 08:03 | 3 comments
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This morning the Chinese government blocked access to the popular video sharing site YouTube after over 20 videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the site.
The protests, which occurred ...
Date: 16 Mar 2008 19:03 | 12 comments
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Earlier this week, hackers discovered a loophole in the brand new "iPlayer for iPhone" beta service which allowed users to download and save all iPlayer content DRM-free.
The exploit, which ...
Date: 15 Mar 2008 22:03 | 7 comments
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In its competition with cable companies for subscribers DirecTV has had a number of successes, often due to the geographical size of their customer base, compared to no more than a regional ...
Date: 13 Mar 2008 19:03 | 16 comments
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If you've been looking forward to seeing Hulu, the online video site from NBC Universal and News Corp, but haven't been able to get an invitation to the private beta you're in luck. After several ...
Date: 12 Mar 2008 11:03 | 13 comments
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NBCU first announced the venture back in October of 2007, and now Hulu is finally set to launch tomorrow. For those unfamiliar, the service is a join venture between NBCU and News Corp and will ...
Date: 11 Mar 2008 22:03 | 4 comments
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Although nothing official has been decided, while speaking at a the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society last week FCC chairman Kevin Martin indicated he's troubled by Comcast's ...
Date: 11 Mar 2008 05:03 | 14 comments
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The large film producer Lionsgate Entertainment has announced that they are working with Apple in an effort to allow customers who purchase select DVDs and Blu-ray titles to download a free ...
Date: 10 Mar 2008 21:03 | 17 comments
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Starting on Friday, March 14, Microsoft will reportedly be cutting the price of the 20GB Xbox 360 in Europe to 270 euros. This represents a drop of 80 euros. Meanwhile, in the UK the price of ...
Date: 10 Mar 2008 17:03 | 5 comments
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In February DivX Inc., developers of the best known MPEG-4 ASP video encoder in the world, decided to shut down their highly popular Stage6 video sharing site. Stage6 was initially established ...
Date: 10 Mar 2008 05:03 | 8 comments
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Vudu has added a new feature dubbed the "Vault" this week, which will allow users to save space on their HDDs by "storing" any purchased movie they own on the company's servers.
After "flagging" ...
Date: 7 Mar 2008 20:03
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This week has been a little slow for Glossary updates as I've been concentrating on some MPEG-2 editing guides. However there are two notable additions for the VMD (Versatile Multilayer Disc) ...
Date: 7 Mar 2008 18:03
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Members of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) have settled an Internet piracy case with Chinese company Beijing Jeboo Interactive Science & Technology Co. The five Hollywood studios had accused ...
Date: 6 Mar 2008 21:03 | 5 comments
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Despite speculation by some that we may see a $200 Blu-ray player before year's end, no such product appears to be in sight. In fact, the Chinese companies responsible for the boom in low priced ...
Date: 6 Mar 2008 07:03 | 84 comments
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In January, when Steve Jobs announced details of a new and improved Apple service he said the company would have 1,000 movies available by the end of Februrary. Now that Februrary has come and ...
Date: 6 Mar 2008 05:03
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The 2008 edition of the Digital Entertainment Survey, published annually by Entertainment Media Research, shows an interesting trend among the more than 1,600 U.K. residents surveyed. An overwhelming ...
Date: 5 Mar 2008 06:03 | 13 comments
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It's time again for my weekly Glossary updates. This week's highlights include some things you may already have on your computer, such as libavcodec and MPEG-4 encoders. If you're not already ...
Date: 29 Feb 2008 19:02 | 1 comment
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Just 3 days after it blocked access to the popular video sharing site, Pakistani officials have lifted the ban on YouTube, citing that the "anti-Islamic" video clips had been removed.
The ...
Date: 27 Feb 2008 23:02 | 11 comments
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DivX, Inc., developers of the MPEG-4 ASP Codec of the same name, have announced they'll be shutting down their Stage6 video sharing service and website. Despite its popularity, or more perhaps ...
Date: 26 Feb 2008 06:02 | 19 comments
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Universal Music Netherlands has struck a deal with Fabchannel allowing the webcaster, which offers live shows from two clubs in Amsterdam, to offer streaming performances from Universal artists ...
Date: 26 Feb 2008 04:02 | 1 comment
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With the increase in new content at Afterdawn over the last year, we've had a hard time keeping you informed of the resources we have available in our Guides section. In order to let you know ...
Date: 25 Feb 2008 09:02 | 2 comments
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If you'd like a ringside seat to a FCC hearing on ISP network management and happen to be in the Boston area on Monday you're in luck. There's a hearing scheduled for 11:00 in the morning at ...
Date: 25 Feb 2008 05:02 | 5 comments
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Pakistani officials have announced that the government has blocked all access to the popular video-sharing site YouTube because there have been a few anti-Islamic videos posted on the site.
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Date: 24 Feb 2008 23:02 | 40 comments
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We reported yesterday that CBS will be making older TV series avaiable for streaming online. At the same time, NBC Universal is making a similar, but somewhat bigger move. While CBS appears ...
Date: 24 Feb 2008 04:02 | 3 comments
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In what seems to be a concentrated effort to jump start its new movie rental business Apple will be offering 99 cent rentals on iTunes once per week on a new movie.
The rental will be available ...
Date: 23 Feb 2008 23:02 | 4 comments
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With new technology and ways to deliver video being introduced at breakneck speed, one thing most entertainment executives will admit to is that nobody knows anything for sure. To date no one ...
Date: 23 Feb 2008 09:02 | 4 comments
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Visitors to the American CBS website are now able to stream not just a current shows on the network, but also a selection of classic shows including the first season of 'MacGyver,' 'Melrose ...
Date: 23 Feb 2008 08:02 | 5 comments
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BBC Worldwide has announced it has struck a deal with Apple that will allow users in the UK to download a few top BBC shows from the popular iTunes platform.
Each show will cost 1.89 pounds ...
Date: 19 Feb 2008 19:02 | 1 comment
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Anyone who read the IFPI's annual report on the state of the music industry when it was released in January would have already been aware that their stated goal for this year was to hold ISPs ...
Date: 19 Feb 2008 05:02 | 3 comments
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It was only a matter of time before the BitTorrent community decided to take on the "network management" practices of ISPs like Comcast. According to TorrentFreak that's exactly what a small ...
Date: 19 Feb 2008 04:02 | 11 comments
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Microsoft and Paramount have announced a new partnership in which the movie studio will offer films via the Live Video Store beginning on February 19th.
The first Title to hit the service ...
Date: 18 Feb 2008 23:02 | 16 comments
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According to data reported by research firm Nielsen Online, the video habits of women suggest a bias towards big network television content that is available on the Internet, while men seem ...
Date: 16 Feb 2008 07:02 | 12 comments
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A self described web Personal Video Recorder (PVR) that allowed users to record from 12 different UK channels appears to have been forced to close its doors. TVCatchup.com which had a tagline ...
Date: 16 Feb 2008 07:02 | 1 comment
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According to a TV industry source, the commercial arm of the BBC will begin adding downloadable video content to Apple Inc.'s iTunes multimedia store. The Register says a source informed them ...
Date: 16 Feb 2008 06:02 | 1 comment
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Analysts at comScore believe the Hollywood writer's strike may have already had a measurable affect on viewers. In their report covering online video viewing for December of 2007. According ...
Date: 14 Feb 2008 04:02 | 7 comments
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In a 80 page filing with the FCC, Comcast attempted to explain why there's nothing wrong with the "network management" practices that spurred a number of complaints to agency regulators. The ...
Date: 14 Feb 2008 04:02 | 18 comments
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On February 26 the FCC will hold and open hearing at Harvard Law School where commissioners "will hear from expert panelists regarding broadband network management practices," according to an ...
Date: 13 Feb 2008 02:02 | 11 comments
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Two prominent wireless companies have joined forces to try and bring television to the mobile masses in London. T-Mobile and Orange have decided to try a short venture in which they will offer ...
Date: 12 Feb 2008 16:02 | 1 comment
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According to Netflix Chief Financial Officer Barry McCarthy, his company's current business strategy is still firmly rooted in DVD technology. Speaking at the Thomas Weisel Partners Technology, ...
Date: 7 Feb 2008 04:02 | 15 comments
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Microsoft has announced that it has made deals with Sony BMG and MTV to add their content to its free MSN video service.
Currently the service has offerings from National Geographic and ITN ...
Date: 5 Feb 2008 22:02 | 2 comments
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Netflix has announced a plan to buy back $100 million in stock by the end of the year. After the company endured their first real competition ever when Blockbuster was seen as a serious competitor, ...
Date: 3 Feb 2008 03:02 | 7 comments
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The BBC has finally gotten their iPlayer to work with software not developed byMicrosoft. It's not a competitor's operating system, however, but rather the Firefox web browser. So while the ...
Date: 2 Feb 2008 07:02 | 3 comments
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With the Super Bowl coming up in less than a week,a number of people are making plans to watch just to see the entertainment during commercial breaks. Every year the commercials are nearly an ...
Date: 2 Feb 2008 07:02 | 2 comments
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Nelvana, a Canadian company that produces such cartoons as the Fairly OddParents and Rolie Polie Olie has inked a deal with ReelTime Rentals, Inc. to add episodes of selected shows to the ReelTime.com ...
Date: 30 Jan 2008 04:01 | 2 comments
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In a new deal with the BBC, MySpace will be adding a number of the broadcaster's show's to thier MySpace Video site. In addition to watching them on the YouTube clone, the clips will also be ...
Date: 25 Jan 2008 02:01 | 1 comment
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Currently only able to stream to select devices including the Apple iPhone and Helio, YouTube is looking to open up the mobile phone market by launching its YouTube for Mobile plan. The company ...
Date: 24 Jan 2008 15:01 | 3 comments
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A comparison of Netflix and Movie Gallery is a study in opposites. In the last year Netflix managed to withstand a challenge for online rental supremacy from Blockbuster and come out the undisputed ...
Date: 23 Jan 2008 23:01 | 9 comments
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Earlier this morning, at an event in Beijing, the video card maker ATI announced that they will be incorporating Blu-ray and HD DVD playback support into their upcoming low end video cards.
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Date: 23 Jan 2008 23:01 | 3 comments
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As Time Warner's Home Box Office (HBO) premium cable service begins trials of an online Video On Demand (VOD) offering targetted specifically at cable internet customers, another branch of the ...
Date: 22 Jan 2008 04:01 | 14 comments
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Last Thursday BBC Future Media and Technology Group Controller Erik Huggers announced the hring of Joost CTO Dirk-Willem van Gulik as the division's Chief Technical Architect. van Gulik will ...
Date: 22 Jan 2008 02:01 | 3 comments
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According to reports today the extremely popular video sharing site YouTube has been banned in Turkey because of clips that allegedly insult the country's founder.
This situation marks the ...
Date: 20 Jan 2008 22:01 | 6 comments
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A YouTube Mexico service was launched back in October as a result of heavy traffic on the English YouTube page and Spain country page from Mexico. Entertainment companies in the country are ...
Date: 16 Jan 2008 05:01 | 3 comments
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Despite shutting down its first attempt at a video download service in December, after less than a year of operation, Wal-Mart already appears to be working on a replacement. Unlike the previous ...
Date: 15 Jan 2008 04:01 | 8 comments
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., the Japanese industry giant behind Panasonic, announced at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that it will launch Internet-ready plasma televisions that support ...
Date: 8 Jan 2008 11:01 | 8 comments
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This morning, Britain's 81-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, launched her own special "Royal Channel" on YouTube.
The Queen has said she will use the video sharing site to send out her 50th annual ...
Date: 23 Dec 2007 22:12 | 7 comments
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Adding another company to the list of people who wish to topple the success of Apple, Pioneer will soon launch a subscription based television service similar to iTunes dubbed SyncTV. For a ...
Date: 19 Nov 2007 15:11 | 1 comment
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