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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
TiVo, Amazon to push download directly to TV
TiVo Inc. announced on Tuesday that many of its customers can now order pay-per-view movies and television shows from Amazon.com's Unbox download service directly from their TV, without a personal computer.
TiVo upgraded the "Amazon Unbox on TiVo" service to allow customers with high-speed Internet connections to select one of about 10,000 movies, shows or other video, using the TiVo remote control.
For TiVo, the new capabilities help to distinguish it's DVR units from less expensive models now offered by cable and satellite providers.
This is continued good news for the movie downloads market as it opens more doors for consumers to get great content and view it in the more comfortable family room setting.
Amazon Unbox competitor HungryFlix.com has offered movie downloads for Apple TV since the device's introduction in March.
TiVo upgraded the "Amazon Unbox on TiVo" service to allow customers with high-speed Internet connections to select one of about 10,000 movies, shows or other video, using the TiVo remote control.
For TiVo, the new capabilities help to distinguish it's DVR units from less expensive models now offered by cable and satellite providers.
This is continued good news for the movie downloads market as it opens more doors for consumers to get great content and view it in the more comfortable family room setting.
Amazon Unbox competitor HungryFlix.com has offered movie downloads for Apple TV since the device's introduction in March.
Labels: apple tv, digital download, internet video, iptv, movie downloads, online video, tivo
Thursday, February 22, 2007
$5.8 Billion, that's Billion with a 'B', Web Video market by 2011
Adams Media Research has released the results from their "Video on the Internet" management report. In the report they claim that the online video market will see significant growth in both ad-supported and paid download models.
AMR’s analysis claims that the advertising model will dominate in the early experimental period of 2007-2009. But as significant numbers of homes connect their TVs to the Internet, consumer spending on downloaded movies and TV shows should expand rapidly and exceed ad spending substantially by 2011.
The state that new devices that bring video into the family room will help push for more downloaded content. Users can download movies today from Apple's iTunes, HungryFlix.com, Google Video and other sites.
AMR’s analysis claims that the advertising model will dominate in the early experimental period of 2007-2009. But as significant numbers of homes connect their TVs to the Internet, consumer spending on downloaded movies and TV shows should expand rapidly and exceed ad spending substantially by 2011.
The state that new devices that bring video into the family room will help push for more downloaded content. Users can download movies today from Apple's iTunes, HungryFlix.com, Google Video and other sites.
Labels: apple tv, download, iptv, movies, online distribution, online video
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Joost to distribute Viacom Content
Viacom has signed a deal to deliver television and theatrical programming to to the new Joost Internet TV service.
TV shows expected to debut once the deal is closed include MTV's "Laguna Beach," "Beavis and Butthead," "The Real World," "Punk'd" and "My Super Sweet 16." Comedy Central will provide episodes from "Stella," "Comedy Central Presents" and "Freak Show." BET's offerings will include "Beef The Series," "DMX: Soul of a Man," "Comic View" and "American Gangster." Country Music Television, MTV2, Logo, Spike TV, mtvU, VH1 and Gametrailers.com will also provide content.
The deal is clearly targeted at teens and young adults, a huge advertising demographic and one that is open to viewing content on their computers.
Joost has been receiving positive reviews for their rich client software and great user experience. Joost was formed last year by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, founders of the Internet calling service Skype.
Also of note is the fact that Viacom has selected Joost over YouTube/Google. It seems that YouTube will now look to form partnerships of it's own and the IPTV space will enter it's next phase.
While the large corporations move forward, independent filmmakers, video producers and content providers can find distribution for their films at HungryFlix.
TV shows expected to debut once the deal is closed include MTV's "Laguna Beach," "Beavis and Butthead," "The Real World," "Punk'd" and "My Super Sweet 16." Comedy Central will provide episodes from "Stella," "Comedy Central Presents" and "Freak Show." BET's offerings will include "Beef The Series," "DMX: Soul of a Man," "Comic View" and "American Gangster." Country Music Television, MTV2, Logo, Spike TV, mtvU, VH1 and Gametrailers.com will also provide content.
The deal is clearly targeted at teens and young adults, a huge advertising demographic and one that is open to viewing content on their computers.
Joost has been receiving positive reviews for their rich client software and great user experience. Joost was formed last year by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, founders of the Internet calling service Skype.
Also of note is the fact that Viacom has selected Joost over YouTube/Google. It seems that YouTube will now look to form partnerships of it's own and the IPTV space will enter it's next phase.
While the large corporations move forward, independent filmmakers, video producers and content providers can find distribution for their films at HungryFlix.
Labels: iptv, joost, media, online distribution, tv, video 2.0, video distribution, youtube
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