Select quotes about its new series called Rome from Broadcasting & Cable, 6/29/2005: "... HBO has moved the epic drama's premiere date up from September to Aug. 28 ... The move will...

Here is another example of how advertising works its way into video no matter what the medium happens to be. At www.moviefone.com/shorts, visitors can view and rate short films. I think that initially...

(excerpted from the 6/20/05 edition of Multichannel News) Hurricane season is blowing new local ad-sales revenue to several Comcast Corp. systems. They're collecting money from advertisers in...

The Wall Street Journal explains that Verizon is desperate for a state-wide solution in New Jersey. It is offering to pay the state's municipalities higher franchise fees in exchange for statewide...

I suspect that after television converts to an "on-demand" environment and advertisers perfect new ways of using that medium, we undoubtedly will see media concentrations like what has...

Video on Demand advocates highlight consumer satisfaction when discussing VOD's bright future. Rarely do they point out that the most popular shows on television cannot be seen on-demand unless...

SeaChange International has been going gangbusters recently with the number of its press releases and announced partnerships. InformITV points out that at the Supercomm show in Chicago, SeaChange...

In an article appearing in AdAge today, Disney's new CEO says that his company needs to "leverage the great migration" of viewers to consumer-controlled media formats." Phew!...

In an article in Broadcasting & Cable, CBS Chairman Les Moonves had some VOD comments. Here are a few excerpts: One aspect of the TV business that will be slow to develop is video on demand....

Traditional television: 500 channels and nothing to watch. The future of VOD: 500,000 streams and I don't know what to watch. You don't really want your VOD service to notify you of every new...

Gemstar-TV Guide, has launched a broadband version of its new VOD service, TV Guide Spot, on its Web site. The service is already available to Time Warner digital cable subscribers and will be rolled...

Breaking News: Cable operators deploying SeaChange's VOD system with Motorola set-top boxes are now able to offer cable companies the Promptu navigation service from AgileTV. Readers of this blog...

SeaChange International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEAC) announced on May 24th an advertising solution in on-demand television including targeted advertising delivery with "ZIP-plus-four" precision....

After we have access to a bazillion things to watch on-demand, how will we find it? Here is a startup with no customers yet. I quote from their press material because they claim that "a consumer...

This morning, Eric Picard wrote an article entitled "Where's Digital Advertising Headed?" in ClickZ. I bring it to your attention because it states very well one of the main thoughts...

According to the Yankee Group 2005 VoD Forecast, video-on-demand (VoD) deployments grew steadily in 2004, with 16.7 million digital cable homes capable of using VoD, up 47% from the end of 2002....

Two unrelated items over last weekend remind us that IPTV still has a ways to go before it becomes a large force in re-inventing television. First, Verizon Communications Inc. and SBC Communications...