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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
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
How Cisco Designed and Deployed IPTV for Global Communications: Cisco IP/TV broadcasts are one of several ways that Cisco Systems delivers multimedia content, some of the others being virtual classrooms and Video on Demand VoD. In general, Cisco uses Cisco IP/TV broadcasts for providing high-quality, live, or prerecorded information to large audiences of more than 50 people. In contrast...; Tags: VoD, IP Television, Cisco Systems Inc.; Case studies 2007-11-19
Ten Future of Tech bets- and you can vote here on all of them!: All the way back in 2001, the Long Bets Foundation was established. The goal was to put forth several technology-related propositions about whether specific events were going to happen within a specific time period.Even more intriguingly, these bets were articulated by two-person teams of generally well-known technologists. People such...; Tags: Google Inc., VoD, Voice Recognition, Bet, Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-08-06

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
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
Enterprise Video Communications: Planning for EVC and Performing an EVC Assessment: This paper summarizes Enterprise Video Communications EVC and includes a high level plan to perform an EVC assessment helping ensure deployment success. EVC is quickly becoming the primary medium for delivery and storage of corporate communications. By leveraging existing IP networks and infrastructure to support video communications companies are increasing...; Tags: VoD, Webcasting, Video, Enterprise Video Communications, Video On Demand (VoD), Corporate Communications, Storage, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Hardware; White papers 2007-01-01
An Optimal Broadcasting Protocol for Mobile Video-on-Demand: The advance of wireless and mobile technology introduces a new type of Video-On-Demand VOD systems, namely the mobile VOD systems that provide VOD services to mobile clients. It is a challenge to design broadcasting protocols for such systems because of the following special requirements fixed maximum bandwidth requirement: the maximum...; Tags: VoD, Mobile, Broadcasting, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Marketing, Consumer Electronics; White papers 2006-11-25
75ò0of Britons do not know what vod is: 75ò0of Britons do not know what VOD isWho gives a shit?What a riveting story, so most people don't give a stuff about IT. Who cares? Isn't it a good thing that most people have more interest in living life then whiling away hours in front of a screen watching shit...; Tags: Video on demand (VoD), TV & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital media, Britons, VoD; Discussion threads 2006-10-05
2MillionDollarTV Living-Room (exe): The virtual multimedia 2MillionDollarTV living-room brings you newsticker, news, photo and product galleries, TV and Video on demand, streaming radio and more. You need to have the latest flash player plugin installed. virtual,multimedia,newsticker,news,photo,galleries,TV,video; Tags: Video on demand (VoD), TV & Home Theater, VoD, plug-in, multimedia, radio, photograph, TV; Software downloads 2006-08-10
Microsoft TV enters IPTV market in France with 'next-generation digital television' software platform: On the heels of obtaining a patent for “System and method of inserting advertisements into an information retrieval system display,” (see my “Google vs. Microsoft in Interactive TV Advertising Race”) and following a Google Research win for “Best Paper” on “Social and Interactive Television Applications Based on Real-Time Ambient Audio...; Tags: TV & Home Theater, TVs, Video on demand (VoD), Broadband Internet, Digital media, software, TV, VoD, Microsoft TV, Microsoft Corp., digital television; Blog posts 2006-06-09
Movie studios: "Sorry folks. The network most definitely is NOT the computer.": In a court case that's sure to set some legal and technological precedents that run counter to everything that the Internet and software as a service revolutions are about, several television and movie studios have joined forces to sue Cablevision which has been testing a TiVo-like recording service (officially: Networked...; Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., VoD; Blog posts 2006-05-25
Video on demand to generate $163 per subscriber a month by 2009: Video on demand to generate $163 per subscriber a month by 2009Incredibly hard to believe...I find it very VERY fishy that last year people ponied up an additional $87/month for video on demand per subscriber. $163...yeah, right. I'll say these statistics are complete market-spin BS that someone cooked up to...; Tags: Video on demand (VoD), TV & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital media, VoD; Discussion threads 2006-05-10
Italy's Acantho Offers a New Model for Broadband Connectivity: Acantho is one of a new breed of service providers springing up across Europe to challenge the once-dominant national telcos. Consumers were hungry for video on demand, flat-rate telephony, and high-speed Internet access, while businesses large and small were searching for tools to extend their reach and increase operating efficiencies....; Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Cisco Systems Inc., networking technology, broadband, high-speed Internet access, VoD, broadband service, telephony, Internet access; Case studies 2006-05-04
AT&T to offer video on demand to DSL customers: AT&T to offer video on demand to DSL customersNice try at&t (NOTICE the small letters?)Too little, too late. The WiMAX Steamroller is comming . . .Symbyo Signs Outsourcing Agreement with AT&T LabsAgreement strengthens Symbyo’s Telecom Services portfolio and expands footprint in Southeast Region.Tampa, Florida, June. 13, 2006 – Symbyo Technologies,...; Tags: Outsourcing, Video on demand (VoD), Telephony, Strategy, Network technology, Broadband Internet, agreement, DSL, VoD, Symbyo Technologies, AT&T Labs, AT&T Corp.; Discussion threads 2006-04-19
PowerGrid Player (exe): The GridNetworks PowerGrid Platform enables content owners to securely stream DVD-quality video across the Internet to broadband connected users. With this revolutionary platform, every computer and set top device becomes part of a content delivery grid, vastly improving delivery speeds, reliability and cost efficiency. The result is an "instant on",...; Tags: VoD, Set-top, Content Delivery, GridNetworks PowerGrid Platform, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics; Software downloads 2006-03-10
Delivering 21st century education at Gordon College: How would you design a college's network infrastructure to deliver world-class education Five years ago, Gordon College of Wenham, MA USA was faced with this very issue. They took an innovative approach: Faculty, students, alumni and IT were engaged in a process to develop a shared vision...; Tags: Education, VoD, IP, Alcatel, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics; White papers 2006-02-14