US telco AT&T has declared it will need to spend more money deploying its IPTV service U-verse to reach less than the estimated number of households it predicted by the end of next year. The company said it is increasing the total capital-expenditure estimate for the period including 2007 and 2008 to $4.5 billion-$5 billion. […]
NBC Universal and News Corp's online video venture Hulu has received praise for its ease of use and advertising structure from a group of Beta-testers following its launch last month. But the group questioned its limitations on content, such as the fact that it can't be downloaded or viewed internationally. When the site officially launches […]
blinkx is reportedly developing its own online television service, entering the broadband video market in competition with mainstream broadcasters such as Joost and Babelgum. The video search group has become the world's biggest video search engine, with 4.2 million daily searches of the 18 million hours of online broadcast content it has indexed.
LA-based interactive television company PTV Corporation is launching its wholly owned interactive television channel on the Sky DTH platform in the UK and Ireland. The company’s channel is styled as the world's first multi-play dynamic pricing television commerce platform. Its proprietary programming is a fast-paced, competitive, trading floor atmosphere that provides live, real-time auctions combined […]
Microsoft has entered into a $500 million (E345m) with Reliance to launch IPTV and allied services in India. The IPTV service will be launched in Mumbai and Delhi by March 2008, to be followed gradually by other metros. CEO Microsoft Steve Ballmer said: “Reliance is about to change the way consumers experience television. TV is […]
Film and TV writers are to stage their first strike for two decades, after last-minute talks failed. The WGA wants writers to receive a slice of the additional advertising revenue that studios make when TV shows are streamed over the Internet. It also wants an additional reward for creating bespoke digital content for the Internet […]
Internet portal AOL has launched a video search engine in the UK, which allows users to search for videos from a number of media sources such as BBC and ITN. Truveo, the video search engine, allows users to search and browse through videos from media brands as well as user-generated content from video uploading sites […]
Guardian Enterprise Group is to launch its new, nationwide multicast digital broadcast network, .2 Network in February 2008. .2Network programming includes a licensing deal with Sony Pictures Television (SPT) for over 300 titles of blockbuster, award-winning films as well as four television series. Dubbed 'Network-in-a-Box' .2Network provides local station affiliates with a uniform, national network […]
Hulu, News Corp and NBC Universal's online video joint venture, said it will pair traditional 30-second ads with long-form video such as full-length sitcom episodes, and restrict ads on short-form content to 10-15 seconds. CEO Jason Kilar said the sector was “just getting started”, adding: “No one has figured out the optimal customer experience. No […]
PeerApp, player in peer-to-peer (P2P) acceleration and caching solutions for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), has launched new software that provides higher-quality subscriber experiences with HTTP video streaming traffic from YouTube, Google Video, MySpace and other video-sharing web sites. The software, a module for PeerApp´s carrier-grade UltraBand² solutions, supports the HTTP video streaming protocol and caches […]