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Tim Bradshaw has a good article in the FT today describing the regulators ruling that Project Kangaroo as currently envisaged will restrict competition in the provision of TV online in the UK. The issue is that ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, the owners of the Kangaroo joint venture, control too much of the [...] SlingMedia, creators of hardware/software service which allows you to stream your home television signal to an internet conncected device anywhere – e.g. you could watch your Sky Premiership matches on your laptop when you are on holiday, are now moving into the video streaming portal game. I.e. they will be competing directly with [...] As reported on Techcrunch Amazon owned Internet Movie Database (IMDB) will now offer 6,000 movies and videos free of charge from Hulu, CBS, Sony Pictures and hundreds of independent filmmakers. IMDB is owned by Amazon. As a service concept I think this is very cool – where better to get the content you [...] Back in May last year I wrote a post wondering if BT would get the retail proposition for BT Vision right. An article in the Sunday Times yesterday suggests I was right to pose the question and offers interesting insight into the challenge for classic IPTV plays. First off the data: There is great [...] Yesterday I wrote about Amazon extending their video streaming service, and now today I read about traffic data at ISP Plusnet that backs up this trend (via the blogs of Azeem Azhar and Martin Varsavsky). The data from Plusnet’s network (they are a UK ISP owned by BT with over 200,000 customers): Streaming usage [...] Amazon announced yesterday the extension of it’s paid video streaming service to Macs and televisions. Previously TV shows and movies were only available for download to PCs and Tivos. Regular readers will know that I think this is the way of the future. In a world of ubiquitous networks streaming is superior to download [...] Some interesting stats on Techcrunch today about Hulu raise the obvious question of when we will get a site with a similarly broad range of professionally produced content here in Europe. I’m interested as a consumer, but also because the market for this is on a par with UGC video, and finally also because [...] ITV announced what were widely seen as disappointing results yesterday. Executive Chairmna Michael Grade said: [This year] is turning out to be a much tougher first year of the five-year turnaround strategy than anyone predicted or could have predicted a year ago. You can read the full commentry on the links above, but [...] For anyone that hasn’t heard, iPlayer is a runaway success. The latest stats can be found in this Guardian piece, but the headline is: Traffic to the BBC’s broadband TV catchup service iPlayer continued to rise during April, the broadcaster said today, with 21 million requests for streamed and downloaded shows during the month. [...] Netflix has just launched a set-top box to help the migration of it’s 8.2m DVD rental subs to delivery via the web. This can only be sensible – clearly the DVD isn’t going to be with us forever. Plus the box is being well received – Wired say it is Just Shy of [...] |
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