"streaming" articles
Finally - some hard numbers in the digital media player device space. According to the article in Multichannel News, Roku has sold 500,000 of the devices, and is looking to double that figure in 2010.
Comcast has rolled out an on-demand, streaming TV service, Fancast Xfinity TV, which will be available to those who subscribe to both Comcast’s digital cable and internet services.
Xfinity contains 2,000+ hours of content, and includes shows - and indeed, entire seasons of shows - from content partners including HBO, Cinemax, Starz, TNS, TNT, A&E, AMC, Discovery Channel, History, and BBC America.
The move is considered the biggest step so far in the cable industry’s TV...
The number of U.S. broadband households watching premium online content, including movies and TV shows via the Internet, doubled in the last year, according to Broadband, Communications, and Entertainment Bundles, a new study from Parks Associates . Currently over 25 million U.S. broadband households regularly watch full-length TV shows online, while over 20 million watch movies online.
The international research firm reports that the growing popularity of online portals such as...
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TelcoTV 2009 is the telecom industry’s premier event for the exploration of a comprehensive entertainment convergence strategy. Like no other event,...
Since I updated the Netflix connected CE devices, here's a list of the devices where the Amazon Video On Demand Service is available:
Xbox 360 (content must be downloaded to the PC first)
TiVo
Roku Digital Video Player
Sony BRAVIA TV
Panasonic VIERA CAST TV
Brightcove has announced that Fox Latin American Channels has chosen to build its online VOD service on the Brightcove platform. Brightcove is enabling Fox Latin American Channels to deliver more than 800 hours of premium, advertising-supported, long-form video content in Spanish and Portuguese from some of the network's most popular shows through its Mundo Fox portal ( http://www.mundofox.com and http://www.mundofox.com.br ). In the short time since launching the new online VOD...
Sonic Solutions’ Roxio CinemaNow announced today a partnership with Japan’s Fujisoft Inc. to deliver Hollywood movies through the Wii in the Japanese market. Instant-streaming downloads will be available through Fujisoft’s video-on-demand service "Minna no Theater Wii" (Everyone's Theater Wii), which debuted earlier this year in Japan.
Sonic has signed Paramount Pictures as the first major studio to sell new release and catalog downloads through the service.
For the past couple of years, there has been much emphasis placed on the "connected CE" market, where TVs, Blu-ray players, video game consoles, media adapters, media servers, and alternative set-top boxes like VUDU and Apple TV receive content from online sources. Having followed this space for some time, I've been particularly interested in how the technology requirements for connected devices have changed rapidly. In the white paper From Boob Tube to YouTube, I talked about...
