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Ashley Highfield, recruited four months ago from the BBC to run Project Kangaroo announced yesterday he was leaving to join Microsoft. For those that don’t know Kangaroo is a collaboration between the UK terrestrial broadcasters to bring an online video service to market – a UK Hulu if you like. Microsoft are doing some [...] On the day of YouTube’s deal with MGM to show some full-length television shows and films it is interesting to note that all the online video sites are adopting the same broad strategy of focusing on professionally produced content. From the UGC side DailyMotion has for a long time been encouraging small film makers [...] Music, movies and books are all digital goods and to me it is obvious that ultimately they will all be delivered in digital form. Music has got there first because the technological requirements are lowest – movies have been more difficult due to file size and books more difficult still because no one [...] Techdirt this morning has a story about Disney using anonymous quotes from IMDB in ads for it’s movies: Disney has now been caught trying out a new tactic: using quotes from anonymous internet commenters on IMDB. These “commenters” could be, for example, Disney employees, but go under usernames like “Theedge-4″ and “Mjavfc1.” Maybe I [...] 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 [...] I’ve written quite a lot about search this year, and the general theme of these posts has been that within search there are a few promising areas for startups in which Google doesn’t deliver a great service. One of these could be video search. It isn’t one I’ve mentioned before because I’m a [...] 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 [...] |
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