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162 mln Americans went online in May 2008: As of May 2008, more than 65% of US homes receive digital cable and satellite combined. These digital TV homes receive nearly 160 channels. In addition, 25% and 35% of US homes have DVR and Video on Demand respectively. 220 mln Americans have Internet access at home and/or work and...; Tags: Video, Home, Corporate Communications, Video On Demand (VoD), Digital Video, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, AM; Blog posts 2008-07-09
162 mln Americans went online in May 2008: As of May 2008, more than 65% of US homes receive digital cable and satellite combined. These digital TV homes receive nearly 160 channels. In addition, 25% and 35% of US homes have DVR and Video on Demand respectively. 220 mln Americans have Internet access at home and/or work and...; Tags: Video, Home, Corporate Communications, Video On Demand (VoD), Digital Video, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, AM; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Whither Blu-ray?: Blu-ray hasn't been setting any sales records, in no small part due to its higher price. That, however, doesn't alter the fact that Sony absolutely had to win the format war, even if media downloads end up supplanting video disc formats. by John Carroll; Tags: Blockbuster Inc., Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Games, Video On Demand (VoD), Game Players, Hd Dvd, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-07-03
A Two-Tiered On-Line Server-Side Bandwidth Reservation Framework for the Real-Time Delivery of Multiple Video Streams: The advent of virtualization and cloud computing technologies necessitates the development of effective mechanisms for the estimation and reservation of resources needed by content providers to deliver large numbers of Video-On-Demand VOD streams through the cloud. Unfortunately, capacity planning for the QoS-constrained delivery of a large number of VOD streams...; Tags: Reservation, VoD, Boston University, Video, Video Stream, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics; White papers 2008-07-01
VUDU: Day and date releases? Yeah, we've got that.: Remember on Thursday when Apple announced that "Day and Date" movie sales and rentals would available on iTunes and Apple TV on the same day as they're released on DVD? Well, it turns out that that may not be that big of a deal. According to an...; Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Movie, Apple TV, DVD, Sales Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Video On Demand (VoD), Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Sales; Blog posts 2008-05-05

Comcast to announce Fancast video portal: watch out, TiVo and Blockbuster stores: Here at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the most overarchingly important innovation I've seen so far just has to be Comcast's new Fancast service. Fancast.com will let subscribers search for and manage their TV shows as well as movie viewing. You will be...; Tags: VoD, Comcast Corp., Blockbuster Inc., Video, TiVo Inc., Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Portals, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Internet, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-01-08
ICUII (exe): ICUII is a simple easy to use Videochat program. ICUII was the first in the industry, over 10 years ago to have big beautiful 320x240 pixel fast video and the first with Video Instant Messaging. Now ICUII has added group chat lobbies and group audio to all in the lobby...; Tags: VoD, Cybration, Lobby, Video, ICUII, Video On Demand (VoD), Corporate Communications, Instant Messaging, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Internet, Online Communications, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics; Software downloads 2008-01-04
Coming soon: iTunes movie rentals: A report in the Financial Times says that Apple and Twentieth Century Fox have reached a deal to provide movie rentals on the iTunes Store: Apple has signed News Corp's 20th Century Fox studio to a new online video-on-demand service in a deal that could change the way people...; Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iTunes, Studio, Apple Inc., Movie, Digital Music, Digital Media, Video On Demand (VoD), Consumer Electronics, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology; Blog posts 2007-12-27
How Cisco Uses Live Broadcasts and Video on Demand to Save Cost of Onsite Meetings: Executives at Cisco Systems needed an efficient and economical way to communicate with employees in the newly formed sales group for emerging markets. Because these employees are located around the world, bringing them to an onsite meeting was costly and impractical. The solution was an IP-based, live video broadcast from...; Tags: VoD, Cisco Systems Inc., Video On Demand (VoD), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment; Case studies 2007-12-17
Long Reach Passive Optical Networks: The paper discusses recent progress in the development of optically amplified, long reach passive optical networks, which aim to significantly reduce network complexity and cost by integrating metro and access into a single, all-optical communication system. Fiber-To-The-Premises FTTP has been envisaged for a long time as an attractive future access...; Tags: Optical Network, Network, Broadband, IEEE, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Video On Demand (VoD), Broadband Internet, Networking, Network Technology, Modems, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components; White papers 2007-11-05
Sprint announces BlackBerry Pearl 8130-Picture here: As was expected, SprintNextel has announced it plans to offer the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 beginning in November. Sprint said the device will include: Sprint Music Store – Downloadable stereo-quality tracks instantly over the air. Choose songs from thousands of artists...; Tags: BlackBerry Pearl, RIM BlackBerry, Sprint Communications, GPS, Video On Demand (VoD), Handhelds, Broadband Internet, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-10-10
Protect VoIP and other Internet multimedia applications with these key management mechanisms: Key management is a fundamental part of protecting Internet multimedia applications such as VoIP, video on demand, conferencing, and others, but key management protocols are difficult to design. In this chapter download from Securing VoIP Networks: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Countermeasures, study two methods, MIKEY and STRP Security Descriptions,...; Tags: Multimedia, VoIP, Addison-Wesley, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Video On Demand (VoD), Telephony, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking; Book chapters 2007-09-10
Coca-Cola Enterprises Accelerates Executive Communications: Coca-Cola Enterprises CCE began as an amalgamation of different independent bottling companies. Coca-Cola Enterprises wanted to quickly communicate company's new strategic direction and develop common vocabulary to ensure consistency of messaging. The challenge was to enable CEO to create personal connection with employees. As a solution the company developed internal...; Tags: Coca-Cola Co., Video On Demand (VoD), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment; Case studies 2007-09-01
Can Internet Video-on-Demand Be Profitable?: Video-on-Demand in the Internet has become an immensely popular service in recent years. But due to its high band-width requirements and popularity, it is also a costly service to provide. This paper considers the design and potential benefits of peer-assisted Video-on-Demand, in which participating peers assist the server in delivering...; Tags: Client-server, VoD, Association For Computing Machinery, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Internet, Digital Media, Servers, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Hardware; White papers 2007-08-31
HP Helps Broadband Provider MVB Offer "Triple Play" Services Over High-Speed Network: HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers - from individual consumers to the largest businesses. HP along with Cisco and MidtVest Bredbaand MVB, a Denmark-based broadband provider introduced, to build a high-speed, fiber-to-the-home network for the delivery of advanced services such as video on demand and...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Broadband Provider, Broadband, Cisco Systems Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Video On Demand (VoD), Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment; Case studies 2007-05-22
Telco Speeds Up and Cuts Costs on Its PC Video on Demand Service: VSNL is a major global communication services provider offering a portfolio of next-generation Carrier and Enterprise solutions, including Voice, Mobile, Data and Ethernet. Looking to attract more broadband subscribers in India and boost current consumption, VSNL partnered with various content providers to launch a PC Video on Demand VOD service...; Tags: VoD, PC, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd., Service, Video On Demand (VoD), Ethernet, Web Technology, Broadband Internet, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Web Site Development, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Security, Internet; Case studies 2007-05-01
Redefining IPTV With the Sun Streaming System: Video-on-Demand (VoD) and Network Personal Video Recording (nPVR) for an Open Systems World: Offering video services over existing IP networks holds considerable promise in terms of new revenue and business growth opportunities for video service providers. Home video in all of its forms is now a large and growing business, and Video on Demand VoD, networked Personal Video Recorders nPVR, and interactive video...; Tags: Video Service, VoD, Network, IP Television, Sun Microsystems Inc., Video, Video On Demand (VoD), Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Telecommunications; White papers 2007-04-01
ShiftCast (exe): ShiftCast is a Broadband Entertainment System for your PC. With ShiftCast, you can watch movies, videos, Live TV, listen to music and streaming radio, chat, play games, download MP3s and publish music from your desktop or mobile phone. ShiftCast also provides access to premium content from the simple to use...; Tags: Broadband, Music, ShiftCast, Video On Demand (VoD), Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Consumer Electronics; Software downloads 2007-03-15
Exploring VoD in P2P Swarming Systems: Digital media companies have recently started embracing P2P networks as an alternative distribution mechanism. However, with current P2P swarming systems users need to download the full video, and hence have to wait a long time before they can start watching it. While a lot of effort has gone into optimizing...; Tags: VoD, P2P, Swarming, Video On Demand (VoD), Peer To Peer (P2P), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Internet, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics; White papers 2007-01-31
Peer-Assisted VoD: Making Internet Video Distribution Cheap: This paper considers the design and potential benefits of peer-assisted video-on-demand, in which participating peers assist the server in delivering VoD content. The assistance is done in such a way that it provides the same user quality experience as pure client-server distribution. The paper focuses on the single-video approach, whereby...; Tags: Client-server, VoD, Assistance, Internet Video, Video, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Corporate Communications, Servers, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Hardware; White papers 2007-01-27