Netflix has always been pretty damn cool in my eyes; streaming video content on demand, for a really reasonable price. The fact that with things like the xBox360 and now roku, it is moving back to t...
The AppleTV has always been a bit of an odd piece of equipment, it's rarely felt like it has a "place" in everyones home system. However, since Boxee came out for it, I've been awf...
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Sony, product manufacturer and entertainment content juggernaut, announced that they plan to release Hollywood studio releases to their Bravia LCD televisions via digital download.
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Good news if you are a Cox Cable subscriber. They announced high definition (HD) movies in its On DEMAND library; currently 20 movie titles with plans to offer more HD content in the future.
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TNT and TBS will stream all seven of their original summer series on TNT.tv and TBS.com.
Episodes of The Closer, Heartland, Saving Grace, The Company from TNT and House of Payne, The Bill Engvall Sh...
Advertising Age points out "that [the] three-hour slice of the evening [called prime time] last year attracted $15 billion in TV ad spending."
Back in the day, networks used to refer to th...
Streaming headlong into the video-on-demand server market, Sun Microsystems introduced a large-capacity system that they claim provides the ability to deliver more than 10 times as many streams as som...
Broadcasting and Cable
The nation's largest cable operators say they are "just scratching the surface" of video-on-demand and promised to offer a cavalcade of new products to allow viewe...
I have to ask: who are these people?
I am referring to the Nielsen Research report in the NY Times article today that says "a lot of people with digital video recorders are not fast-forwarding a...
About a year and a half ago, one of Comcast's senior executives was telling me about TiVo and how much of his calendar time was taken up with their initiative. It's been so long since any news...
While researching, I ran across this little table of statistics that Time Warner put out about their video on demand (VOD) changes within 2006.
Good news for video-on-demand: Mr. John Alchin, Comcast Chief Financial Officer, Projects that the number of VOD hours will double in 2007 and again in 2008.
I am very interested in VOD measurement and television ratings. To the best of my experience, three companies are trying to do something about that: Nielsen, Rentrak, and Everstream.
Everstream's...
There is a technology that both the cable MSO's and the telephone companies are pursuing - it is called switched broadcast. Why? Because switched broadcasting allows the provider to send only the ...
Here are a few video on demand (VOD) statistics from market research firm Claritas; reported in Broadcasting and Cable.
Over half (54%) of digital cable subscribers use VOD, up from 41% in 2005, thou...
Comcast has wanted prime-time television programs for more than two years for its video-on-demand service. It even tried once to acquire Disney in 2004, in large part, to gain access to its content.
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Since the mid-1990's, I heard every year that video on demand (VOD) would emerge to be the next big thing. It took until 2004 for VOD to be rolled out in significant numbers. On...
We have had a flurry of 'user generated content' stories wherein some television network or show entices viewers to make a specific type of Mashup and see who wins a contest. Many of the conte...
Recently, NBC started up an ad-supported, full-episode video player named originally enough 'NBC Rewind.' Rewinds are 2-minute replays of episodes you missed on television. You can also watch ...
According to the LA Times, Disney is said to be near concluding a deal with Comcast and Time Warner.
The most important portions of that deal include the mundane (at least mundane to us normal folks)...
The overall impact of DVRs and VOD on US television viewing remains small according to the Leichtman Research Group. They estimate that less than 4% of all TV viewing in the US today is of recorded DV...
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 it...
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 want...
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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 politica...
network executive: 'live on NBC, yet another final season of ER' viewers: 'great, we will waste no time in watching it, then'
Beth Comstock is NBC Universal's President of digita...
in this murder mystery, it is Hollywood that is the villain
Call in Hercule Periot to solve this mystery. TiVo users are among the most fanatic, brand-loyal of consumers rivaling even the Apple-nist...
Years ago while working with cable television folks BEFORE their video-on-demand (VOD) services became common place, I had proposed to a Comcast'er the idea that any new offering would have to bea...
Good news for all you Comcast VOD users out there -- CBS prime time content will now be free and more widely available!
CBS and Comcast have been laboring under a 10-month old agreement whereby the c...
Advertisers have long complained about constraints that prevent them from dynamically inserting ads in VOD. Typically, they have had to embed unalterable ads into programming for several months at a t...
Movie studios are masters of "release windows" which means that they try to milk the most money from their movies in one venue before allowing it to move on to the next. For example, a movie...
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