At the Banc of America Securities media conference in New York City last month, Time Warner Cable CEO, Glenn Britt, and Cablevision COO, Tom Rutledge, confirmed once again that their respective...

Much of the news in advertising and digital television revolves around the impact of the digital video recorder (DVR). Here is the financial report of just one (albeit a large one) manufacturer. Note...

Gotuit Media Corp. has developed a product, called "Gotuit On Demand," that combines segment metadata with VOD content. This is a fancy way of saying that viewers can use their remote...

A major theme on this blog is that the digital media revolution changes many of the rules of business. Earlier, I sketched out a case that on-demand television advertising could grow as large as...

One of the technology drivers behind the digital media revolution is plentiful disk space that is always getting faster and cheaper. Want more evidence of that? Look to a company called InPhase who...

You might have heard about the Moxi Media Centers in connection with digital television. This Linux-based technology allows consumers to store, access and manage a variety of entertainment content --...

I have been meaning to write about business models for video on demand (VOD) and internet protocol television (IPTV) for some time now. Since I have not yet, let me just say that I am sure that chris...

TVN Entertainment Corporation is one of the largest privately held digital content aggregation, management, distribution, and service companies. Originally created in 1988 to bring multi-channel...

Earlier this week, an article entitled "Internet Ad Spend Creeping up on TV" appeared on ClickZ. "Internet advertising revenue is growing at a faster clip than television advertising,...

Verizon took a step toward becoming a competitor to cable and satellite TV companies by unveiling a deal to carry all of NBC Universal's channels on a television service due this year. An article...

Presently there is not all that much quality television content available to us from either cable video on demand (VOD) or internet protocol television (IPTV). It seems logical that over the next...

Someday, ads will find their way into (or around) video on demand (VOD) or internet protocol television (IPTV) or digital video recorders (DVR). These non-linear television vehicles are also equipped...

Interactive television may finally flourish amid the long-promised convergence of communications technologies, says Barry Schuler, the former chief executive of AOL. Barry Schuler writes on...

There really is no limit to the ways one can rationalize a topic when facing an ugly reality. Take for instance an article in today's Wall Street Journal entitled Networks Take On the Time...

I notice two articles that have come out in recents days. In the first, a company called Massive is building an ad network for in-game advertising. They are still testing the technology but announced...

Kreatel Communications (a Swedish company) has unveiled home networking software for its IP set-top boxes. It is called Kreatel Home Media Access. The new software is designed to allow viewers to...

I was scanning an article in Broadcasting & Cable today called "A Guide to High-Def Highs." (sorry, subscription needed). While interesting for the topic it focused on (which networks...

Israel-based IPTV technology provider, BitBand, says that Atlas Group-subsidiary, Atlas Interactive, has chosen its VOD technologies for a large-scale deployment of IPTV on the networks of an...

On March 8th, Mexican cable operator, Cablevisi�n (note: the latter is not related to the US MSO of virtually the same name; it is a subsidiary of Mexico's Grupo Televisa), began commercial...