One of the advisors to President Obama's broadband plan, the former FCC member Blair Levin, said that it was foreseeable back in the 1990s that the Internet was going to supplant broadcasting and traditional cable video service. “In 1994, you could envision as inevitable the Internet replacing existing platforms for communications and entertainment,” he said […]

China’s most popular online video site, Youku.com, is trying to shed its reputation for abetting piracy by taking a page from YouTube’s playbook: using technology to ‘fingerprint’ videos, making it easier to find unlicensed copies. The Beijing-based company, which has been sued over pirated videos, has developed a content-filtering system that generates identifying codes based […]

TalkTalk has confirmed that content from its TV service – TalkTalk TV – will be available on the Project Canvas TV when the platform is launched and added it wouldn't be “pushing further sales of TalkTalk TV”, and is instead waiting for the launch of Project Canvas, on-demand TV service. Meanwhile, TalkTalk will open a […]

YouTube wants viewers to stay on the site for much longer giving the video platform the opportunity to garner more TV advertising spend. Chad Hurley, CEO, says he wants users to become more like TV viewers with the ultimate aim of getting them to spend nearer five hours at the site, rather than the current […]

AirTies, the wireless home networking vendor, has signed a strategic partnership with GooMe Interactive, a provider of over-the-top (OTT) media solutions for operators, to deliver an end-to-end, content-rich TV experience. The combined solution offers a STB with advanced graphics capabilities, supporting Pause-LiveTV and progressive download using Flash memory without the need for costly hard drives. […]

International research firm Parks Associates has found that consumer interest in Web-on-TV applications is so strong that households are making their own connections via PCs and game consoles. From 2008 to 2009, the number of US households using Web-connected game consoles increased by 64 per cent, and the number connecting a PC to a TV […]

According to research from TDG less than half of broadband users view their favourite TV programmes when initially broadcast. “With the advent of the DVR, the primacy of programming schedules was forever diminished,” notes Michael Greeson, founding partner and director of research at TDG. “The DVR, however, simply signalled the first stages of a prolonged […]

Project Canvas has set a deadline of April 23rd for taking on any further partners in the venture. Meanwhile the project has hired Anthony Rose as Chief Technology Officer. Rose is sometimes called the iPlayer guru following his key role in its development as Head of Digital Media Technology at the BBC. Canvas has also […]

ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG and RTL Germany want to create a new open internet platform for catch-up TV across Germany and Austria that would be open to all broadcasters, according to local reports. The two companies already run their own catch-up TV platforms–which allow viewers to see some content via the internet for several days after […]

Time Warner’s HBO is in talks with additional distributors about offering its programming in a “TV Everywhere” scenario, where subscribers to a digital TV service would also gain access to HBO shows online, according to reports. HBO has already experimented with the offering with Comcast, and Verizon’s FiOS TV service, where subscribers can access more […]