The Comcast systems in Pittsburgh and Denver are running a little experiment: letting people rent films on demand for $4 simultaneously with their release on DVD. VOD is in 30 million homes, and the...
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by martino on December 18, 2006
I am still looking hard to find the people who like mobile content, still have not found them; nor do I know that they actually exist outside of a handful of iPod video downloads. But, just in case...
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Condensed from a Broadcasting & Cable article PBS is trying a little science experiment. On January 1st, PBS will stream pilots/specials for three potential new science series at PBS.org then air...
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by martino on December 15, 2006
I borrowed the following wired magazine graph from Ian Schafer. I know that Google wants to monetize YouTube through some form of advertising. But what really surprises me is that 6% of the people...
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by martino on December 15, 2006
The Venice Project this week starts to open up beta-testing of the service to a much larger group of users. The ambitious effort aims to combine TV-quality video with the interactive and community...
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by martino on December 15, 2006
Excerpts from Online Media Daily ABC NEWS HAS BECOME YAHOO News' main video content provider, the companies said Wednesday. Expanding on their year-old revenue-sharing partnership, ABC News will...
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by martino on December 14, 2006
Michael Arrington got to ask Bill Gates a few questions about digital rights management (DRM). You run into DRM when you cannot transfer video or songs you legitimately buy to devices you own just...
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by martino on December 14, 2006
For those of you who are fans of The View on ABC, here is some news you may like. ABC will streaming clips of the talk show's opening "hot topics" segments on ABC.com. According to...
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While researching, I ran across this little table of statistics that Time Warner put out about their video on demand (VOD) changes within 2006.......
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by martino on December 14, 2006
Presently, Verizon spends an average of $1,816 to connect a home with fiber. They are promising Wall street that they will cut that cost to $1,350 by 2010.......
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by martino on December 13, 2006
We just celebrated day of the ninja, so it's a big week for ninjas everywhere- especially our favorite ninja from the hit internet series "Ask A Ninja". Find out how this show has...
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by martino on December 12, 2006
this just in: All that talk about "profane" talk not belonging on TV will be on TV after all. The oral agruments in broadcasters' challenge to the FCC's March profanity rulings...
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by martino on December 12, 2006
Court TV wants to attract more Latino viewers. So, they will stream three Spanish-dubbed episodes of the true-crime series "Psychic Detectives" on AOL Latino. After the episodes run there,...
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by martino on December 12, 2006
I had just posted an article about the networks trying to form an alternative to YouTube. I continued researching and ran across this little quote from TechCrunch: "Google has offered substantial...
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by martino on December 12, 2006
Let me start out by apologizing for having two Godfather themed postings this week already. Last week, I reported the rumor that Metacafe might be acquired by a group of networks. This week, we have...
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by martino on December 11, 2006
CBS now stands for Cleaner, Better, Site For those of you who think that YouTube is becoming too corporate, here is a story that helps bolster your case. excerpts from the New York Times: One of...
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John Malone is one of cable's fabled cowboys. He is an entrepreneur, visionary and deal-maker and the man who built up a cable company called Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI) into the largest system...
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we are checking into the rumor that they hired Michael Corleone to bring the enterprise legitimate next year We just can't ignore it anymore. Lightning fast, peer-to-peer software is coming to...
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In today's New York Times is an article about the "year that wasn't." In other words, things that were supposed to happen but didn't. First on the list: High definition TV,...
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by martino on December 10, 2006
a lover's triangle rarely works out well Ah, congratulate the newlyweds. Alcatel and Lucent are now blissfully married. Their union is symbolized by the eternity ring of their new combined logo -...
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