The one bright spot for the music industry has been Apple's iTunes store, which has sold 600 million songs since 2003, accounting for 80 percent of legal downloads in the United States. But what...

If you want to get access to high-quality movies legally via the Internet on a pay-per-view basis, Movielink is likely your destination. The company is a joint venture between MGM studios, Paramount...

I have long believed that entertainment companies and software companies do not under how free digital distribution can often lead to more revenue, not less. I first witness this phenomenon back in...

NBC Universal has joined ABC in serving up video to owners of Apple's Video iPod. This deal started to bring primetime, cable, late-night and classic TV shows to the mobile device as of 2am this...

Alcatel purchases a 25% stake in 2Wire Inc. 2Wire makes residential gateways and set-top boxes for DSL providers like SBC, who incidentally have a large deal with each other. Alcatel also has a large...

Beginning Dec. 26, Nielsen will report three separate data streams: 1) "Live," viewing excluding any DVR playback; 2) "live plus same day," live viewers and those who played back...

There was an inevitability to it. Thirty-eight million PCs in the U.S. are broadband connected. That's like 38 million set top boxes." Kevin Corbett, vice president and general manager of the...

VOD and IPTV technology provider, Kasenna, is trumpeting the results of a new benchmark test of its server technology. The company says its software can deliver VOD to 500,000 Subs from a single video...

AUSTAR to Use Thomson Hardware, OpenTV Software for New PVR ServicePay-TV provider AUSTAR provides service to regional and rural Australia to around 525,331 subscribers. According to the company, it...

Qwest Communications has been quietly offering video service in three markets. They were recently granted a franchise to deliver video service in its largest market to date: Salt Lake City. Local...

Verizon launched its second FiOS TV market last week in Verndon, VA. Verizon is offering 180 video and music channels for $39.95 per month. The service also offers 20 HDTV channels, 1,110 video...

comScore Networks and StreamingMedia.com published some research on who is watching video online. It found that people between the ages of 35 and 54 were 20 percent more likely to watch online video...

Three major networks ABC, CBS, and NBC took small steps away from a business model that has served them for about 50 years. For the first time, they agreed to let viewers see for a fee current...