Recently, I commented how most video on demand (VOD) service offerings still fall short of the Netflix value proposition. Some people did not like that comparison, thinking netflix had already seen...
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by martino on October 25, 2006
Television piracy in Asia is costing Asian pay-TV broadcasters $1.13 billion this year in lost potential revenue, so says an article in the Wall Street Journal (subscription needed) citing an industry...
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by martino on October 24, 2006
Give Peas a Chance I see that Jeff Goldman is quoting Sprint's Barry West saying that WiMax Will Create World Peace. Maybe so, but all I want to know is whether it will be robust enough to deliver...
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by martino on October 24, 2006
Verizon has been much more aggressive than AT&T in pushing its IPTV service (which is called FiOS). Well, today it is targeting you folks in Tampa that are currently Bright House Network...
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by martino on October 24, 2006
Woo, woo! T-Com, a unit of telecom operator Deutsche Telekom, announced the commercial launch of its T-Home service. This includes TV services delivered via the Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software...
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If you understand the new media landscape of today, you also understand that "it's all about me." In other words, the viewer responds more favorably when they get to watch what they...
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by martino on October 24, 2006
projections indicate they will get their 3001st customer today! For those of you keeping score, AT&T has been offering its U-verse IPTV service to a total of 30,000 potential homes in san antonio....
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by martino on October 23, 2006
for the first episode, you're told to bring a pencil, some paper, and a fire extinguisher Bravo has launched a new, 12-part broadband TV series, entitled "Top Recipe: the Wong Way to...
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by martino on October 23, 2006
when I was a kid, I recall how much fun it was to watch home movies of Aunt Mildred's vacation looking for lawn elves collections When 65 employees can create $1.65 Billion worth of value that...
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by martino on October 23, 2006
conspiracy theorists link the grassy knoll to Skype, eBay, and targeted television A few weeks ago, I first got wind of Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom's latest venture codenamed "The Venice...
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"Already we're doing things in ways that four months ago would have been unthinkable. "Heroes," the biggest new show of the year, aired Monday night at 9 p.m. By 2 a.m. it was...
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by martino on October 19, 2006
The above video is on the list of most viewed clips at YouTube with almost 1/2 million. It is interesting enough to make it easy for you to see and it is only one minute long.......
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by martino on October 19, 2006
or, I hope you understand this was purely physical and only a one-night stand In my daily investigations, I am always looking for the ways that businesses 'monetize' their ideas - especially...
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meteorologists detect a dramatic change in wind patterns One good thing about VOD is that video content does not ever have had to appear on regular television in order to be available. While political...
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by martino on October 18, 2006
Sprint/Nextel says it will do exactly what its failed competitors did but end up with different results! Let's take them at their word: Sprint Nextel will spend $7 billion by 2007 on its fast new...
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by martino on October 17, 2006
Today's picture is inspired from a VC funding of a video publisher catering predominantly to males. Are you a testosterone laden male? Do you want more video content created just for broadband,...
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by martino on October 17, 2006
For all you readers in Great Britain, Tracy Swedlow is reporting that the Independent Television Network ("ITV") in the UK has chosen Los Angeles-based interactive agency, Schematic, to...
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odds makers in Vegas make book on how many clips are a direct ripoff of Star Trek or Star Wars Never let it be said that the television networks cannot beat an interesting idea into the ground. After...
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