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December 2001 - January 2002

Video on Demand

Advanced-television.com looks at the growing market for VOD, the main players and suppliers, including exclusive reports. VOD has arrived and is rolling out now - it had been seen by many as the killer application of digital services - so what's the reality? ATV reports.

EXTRA Response to Feature:
Video-on-Demand 'The Killer Application'?
For Video on Demand to be the killer application, it must be just that - ON DEMAND - when the customer wants it, not sometime soon like NVOD, so it has to be box-based says Phil Sabin.
Video On Demand IntroductionAt recent London conference representatives of the Content and Video On Demand (VOD) industry met and discussed the state of the industry and the issue of network or set top based delivery systems for VOD. Participants include Thomas Kressner, CEO of Yes TV; Andrew Cresci Vice President Europe TiVo; Simon Wyatt Vice President EMEA of nCube; Gary Stephen - then MD of Diva, now Group Development Director of On Demand Group; Simon Hochhauser founder of Videonet/ Home Choice, and Simone Sassoli Director Broadband Networks of Seachange. Just for good measure, this report includes a few words from Abe Peled, President and Chief Executive of NDS, who attended the event.

Companies:

Concurrent
Mediacom Communications Corp selects Concurrent Computer Corp for video-on-demand and interactive TV services to deploy before the end of this year.

BarcoNet VOD over IP
BarcoNet launches 'first dedicated VOD-over-IP solution to make scaleable Video-on-Demand economically feasible,' featuring lowest cost per stream.

TV Gemstar interactive IPG
TV Guide InteractiveSM, an on-screen, digital cable Interactive Program Guide from Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc and SeaChange International, Inc in ' first fully integrated Video-On-Demand (VOD) solution.'

nCUBE and IMagic in combined offer
nCUBE Corporation and iMagicTV deliver integrated solution to Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) and Media Corporation of Singapore (MediaCorp) for video-on-demand (VOD) and other interactive television (iTV) services in an upcoming trial.

Athelia III in new receiver launch
'Break-through satellite plug-n-play PC Receiver' about to launch 'massively' in France.

Special Reports

Major studios in Hollywood VOD venture
Five major Hollywood studios - Sony, Warner Bros, MGM, Universal and Paramount - to form a broadband VOD distribution service using new releases and library material, to be based on Sony's Moviefly project.

Disney and News Corp cooperate
Walt Disney Company and News Corporation plan to establish a joint venture company to launch a broadband entertainment content on-demand service called Movies.com.

SeaChange expands overseas
Yvette Gordon, vice-president of interactive technologies, SeaChange International says, "The next big step will be for these (European) systems to integrate into a network structure that makes sense and then they are going to go upscale digital as well as VOD and probably an Internet service at the same time."

Video On Demand: Pause, Rewind, Play
By Ben Berkowitz
Push a button. Watch a movie. Pause. Rewind. No cassette or disk required.