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- WSJ: YouTube and movie studios in talks over streaming rentals
- Google-owned YouTube is in discussions with major motion picture studios, including LionsGate Entertainment, Sony and Warner Bros., to allow consumers to rent and stream movies for a fee, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal that cites unnamed sources. The WSJ report stressed that negotiations...
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, VoD, Movie, YouTube Inc., Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Entertainment Provider Improves Video on Demand With New Web Tools and Technologies
- To stay on the leading edge of the rapidly evolving online entertainment industry, Blockbuster needed to provide its customers with a compelling, PC-based, video-on-demand experience. Blockbuster used a set of integrated Web tools and technologies from Microsoft, including Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Presentation Foundation, the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008...
- Tags: Web, VoD, Blockbuster Inc., Microsoft Corp., Entertainment, Blockbuster OnDemand Application, Video On Demand (VoD), Advertising & Promotion, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics
- Case studies 2009-07-09
- Home Networking Technologies: Delivering Media in the Digital Home
- Distribution of entertainment services within the home presents service providers with a tremendous opportunity to increase their value and appeal to consumers. Striking a balance between performance, future growth potential, ease of installation and other factors will be the key to fruitful deployments. For more than a decade, operators have...
- Tags: VoD, Home Networking, Media, Entertainment, Motorola Inc., Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Telephony, Broadband Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Telecommunications, VOIP, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Marketing, Consumer Electronics
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Amazon finally adds HD titles to its Video On Demand service
- Amazon finally adds HD titles to its Video On Demand serviceIt's about time! I tried Amazon's non-HD service before...... and it was quite good. Hopefully the HD service will be equally good (We missed one disc of 24 so we decided to use Amazon last time).It's wonderful that...
- Tags: Video on demand (VoD), TV & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital media, Amazon.com Inc., NetFlix Inc., VoD
- Discussion threads 2009-04-22
- Amazon finally adds HD titles to its Video On Demand service
- After letting Netflix have the jump on offering high-def titles as part of its video-streaming service for subscriberson home video players as well as PCsAmazon has finally rolled out the first 500 HD movies and TV programs for its Video on Demand service. Among the initial films Amazon is offering...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., VoD, Streaming Video, Amazon.com Inc., Video, HD, HD Movy, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, TVs, Web Site Development, Home Entertainment, Web Technology, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Marketing, Internet, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- VOD chief: Comcast will survive in face of TV.com, Hulu
- This week, Comcast announced its OnDemand Online service, promising anywhere online access to Comcast programming (broadcast, basic and premium channels, etc.) for its customers. I sat down with Doug Sylvester, President and COO of TVN Entertainment, to talk about how Comcast's entry into the broadband video on-demand...
- Tags: VoD, Comcast Corp., Cable Company, TV, Cable, Programming, Hulu, TVN Entertainment, ZD, DS, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- Delivering Video On Demand Too Demanding For Cablevision
- Delivering Video On Demand Too Demanding For CablevisionVideo on demandI had issues with this service a while back - we would order videos but just get an error saying that the video could not be played at this time. Calling cablevision got the response that we should check we had...
- Tags: Video on demand (VoD), TV & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital media, Corporate communications, Cablevision Systems Corp., VoD
- Discussion threads 2009-02-11
- Delivering Video On Demand Too Demanding For Cablevision
- Cablevision Systems, one of the two biggest suppliers of subscription television services in the nation’s largest metropolitan area, has a problem. And it doesn’t really want to talk about it. Delivery of videos on demand are freezing up. The problem, according to a customer service representative, has...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., VoD, Movie, Video, Maiella, Corporate Communications, Cable, Marketing, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- BT Vision Builds Cutting-Edge Storage Solution to Deliver Video-on-Demand Over an IP Network, Gains More Than £7 Million in Benefits With HP StorageWorks
- BT Vision, based in the United Kingdom, is a next-generation television service that delivers pay-per-view and subscription video-on-demand services, digital TV channels, communications, and interactive services over an IP network to audiences throughout the UK. BT Vision wanted to improve its ability to deliver video-on-demand over an IP-based network to...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., VoD, Network, HP StorageWorks, Benefit, British Telecommunications, IP, Vision, SVOD, U.K., IP Network, BT Vision, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Utility Computing, Strategy, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- Raketu 3.0.1.0 (Windows)
- Raketu, unique technology delivering integrated Communications, Information and Entertainment. Raketu's current release includes: voice calling (multi-line and conferencing), dialing out to landline/mobile, any IM (Yahoo, MSN, Skype, AOL, ICQ, Google, Jabber), SMS texting, file transfer,ipTV, VOD, email, news/sports/weather/stock/podcast feeds, integrated search and travel search, full media player w/karaoke, games -...
- Tags: Raketu Communications, VoD, IP Television, Microsoft Windows, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-12-12
- Technology for Providing Educational Video on Demand on Campus
- Much hope has been placed in the past on Educational Television for improving educational standards and distance education. However, in many countries the impact of this technology has been limited. Some of the reasons are discussed along with possible technical solutions. One solution that has been developed at HP Labs...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., VoD, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Satellite TV, Video On Demand (VoD), E-learning, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-11-21
- CollaboraTV: Making Television Viewing Social Again
- With the advent of video-on-demand services and digital video recorders, the way in which they consume media is undergoing a fundamental change. People today are less likely to watch shows at the same time, let alone the same place. As a result, television viewing, which was once a social activity,...
- Tags: VoD, Association For Computing Machinery, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Digital Media, Broadband Internet, TVs, Digital Video, DVR, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Telecommunications
- White papers 2008-10-24
- CPM: Adaptive Video-on-Demand With Cooperative Peer Assists and Multicast
- This paper presents CPM, a unified approach that exploits server multicast, assisted by peer downloads, to provide efficient Video-on-Demand VoD in a service provider environment. They describe their architecture and show how CPM is designed to dynamically adapt to a wide range of situations including highly different peer-upload bandwidths, content...
- Tags: VoD, CPM, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Research & Development, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-08-29
- 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
- Learning Goes High-Tech in Taiwan's Fuhsing Private School
- Taiwan-based Fuhsing Private School is well-known for its excellent academic performance. The school prides itself for being a forward-looking educational institute, and continually seeks to prepare its students for the rigors and demands of the 21st century knowledge-based economy. Fuhsing School sees it as an imperative to adopt the latest...
- Tags: VoD, Taiwan, Dimension Data, Fuhsing School, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Datacraft Gears Up Korea's C&M Co Ltd to Grow Its Video-on-Demand Service
- Korea has made substantial inroads in digital pay-TV deployment within the Asia-Pacific region. Broadcasters and operators are migrating to advanced digital broadcasting platform in search of greater revenue streams and bundling of new service offerings. Korea-based C&M Communications Co Ltd, with its sight set on becoming the country's premier integrated...
- Tags: VoD, Dimension Data, Broadcasting, Korea, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Delivering Local Content Over IP Networks: VODxchange Content Creation System
- The advent of time-shifted TV and Video On Demand VOD have increased user expectations for being able to view more content on their own schedules. Service providers representing different multi-channel programming delivery systems (satellite, telco, cable, and internet) have all been expanding the availability and type of on-demand choices. To...
- Tags: VoD, Network, IP, Video, IP Network, Programming, Motorola Inc., Video On Demand (VoD), Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Development Tools, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Telecommunications, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Consumer Electronics
- White papers 2008-05-01
- 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
- A Peer-to-Peer On-Demand Streaming Service and Its Performance Evaluation
- Providing on-demand video streaming service over the Internet is a challenging task. This paper proposes DirectStream, a directory based peer-to-peer video streaming service that efficiently and cost-effectively provides video on-demand service with VCR operation support. The paper analytically and experimentally examines the system performance, and show that the proposed scheme...
- Tags: VoD, Performance, P2P, University Of Massachusetts, Streaming Video, Performance Evaluation, Web Site Development, Video On Demand (VoD), Web Technology, Digital Video, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- White papers 2008-01-01
- 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
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