Companies that have an interest in Web Television, video and TV via the Internet (IPTV)

Broadband Video Companies

After Hulu Has Launched – How Many People Are Actually Switching Over To Web TV?

Hulu eventually launched on Wednesday to an almost equal amount of hype and cynicism. While some people, such as former CEO of...
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
2 min read

Exploring Hulu In Full | Out Of Beta And Officially Launched But Is It Any Good?

Hulu officially launched on Wednesday after an extended and very successful period in beta.  Hulu is a joint venture between NBC...
Gilbert Hammer
2 min read

YouTube Expands Developer Tools & APIs To Allow External Websites To Interact

For the last few days there has been speculation over what big announcement YouTube were about to make: A deal with...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Ghost’ Video Hosting Network Venture Gains Investment Support

Steven Spielberg may be best known around the world as a movie director and film mogul, but he is also a...
Leslie Poston
1 min read

How iPhone and YouTube Have Impacted Mobile Users | Frost & Sullivan Interview Part 2

Transcoding on demand for mobile video is starting to play an important part in the growth of online video as the...
Brendon Mills
35 sec read

MobiTV Channels Completely Unsecured | Site Threatens HowardForums For Posting URL

In a move which furthers the debate as to what constitutes content stealing, MobiTV has threatened to take legal action against...
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
1 min read

Watching Web TV While At Work | Businesses Cracking Down On Employees Surfing YouTube

The growing popularity of Internet television isn’t good news for everyone, as businesses are finding to their cost, with falling productivity...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Testing The Sansa Take TV System & Fanfare TV Portal | Content & Ease Of Use To Succeed?

Last October, Sandisk launched Sansa Take TV, a current solution for moving video content from your computer to your large screen....
Gilbert Hammer
39 sec read

Quarterlife Dumped By NBC – New Web Show From Family Guy’s Seth McFarlane On Way

It’s now been confirmed that after poor ratings for the first episode of Quarterlife, screened on NBC last Thursday night, the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Discussing The Future Transcoding Market | Interview With Frost & Sullivan Part 1

Transcoding on demand, especially when it comes to mobile video, is going to play an important part in the growth of...
Brendon Mills
48 sec read

Could YouTube Being Taken Down By Pakistan So Easily Be A Sign Of Things To Come?

Earlier this week, YouTube suffered an outage which lasted for almost two hours, a serious amount of time for the second...
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
1 min read

Quarterlife Makes TV Debut On NBC – Poor Ratings For First Episode Of MySpace TV Series

Quarterlife made its network television début last night, and unfortunately for NBC and show creators Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz it...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Experiences Worldwide Outage Due To Pakistan Government Block Attempt

YouTube experienced an outage lasting almost two hours last night after an attempt by the Pakistani government to block access to...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

How On Demand Video Transcoding Enables More Personalised Advertising Opportunities

The business of online television and video is growing at a incredibly fast rate, and as well as user created and free...
Brendon Mills
34 sec read

CBS Join NBC & News Corp. By Putting Classic Television Online | Inc. MacGyver & Star Trek

The growth of the Internet as a viable place to watch television and videos is fully in evidence today, as another...
Michael Garrett
1 min read

TVCatchup Suspends Services After Complaints From Broadcasters Such As BBC, ITV, Channel 4

An advertising funded broadband service which only launched fully at the beginning of January, has already been forced to suspend its...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

CNN Launch iReport.com | Your Stories, Your Videos – A Site For All Citizen Journalists

Although CNN moved in to the world of citizen journalism over 18 months ago with iReport, most of the submissions made by users never...
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
8 sec read

How To Connect A Projector To Your PC Or Laptop To Watch High Definition Online Video

Internet television is growing at a phenomenal rate, with services such as Joost, Hulu and Stage6 all providing more reasons than...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Yahoo! Video Relaunches | Higher Resolution Widescreen Videos But What Else Is On Offer?

Yahoo! currently seems to be on a mission to take over the world of online video, despite facing the immediate threat...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Yahoo! Confirms Rumoured Acquisition Of Online Video Platform Maven Networks

Yahoo! may be going through a rough patch at the moment (read understatement of the year), with Microsoft launching a hostile...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

SyncTV | Is It The Viable Alternative To Apple iTunes and Amazon Unbox That We Hoped?

The online television market is growing daily, and new companies are entering the fray regularly, some of which are copycats, and...
Michael Garrett
2 min read

Revver Hits Hard Times | Online Video Sharing Site For Sale – Copying YouTube Doesn’t Work

Revver is one of the video start ups which suddenly became well known when the success of market leader YouTube took...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Video Transcoding Needs For New Online Media | Giving Consumers What They Expect

Video has become an all important part of breaking news coverage, with online readers almost expecting some sort of visual accompaniment...
Brendon Mills
48 sec read

BBC iPlayer Increasing Popularity Of Online TV | 1.5 Billion Downloads Estimated For 2008

The BBC iPlayer is seemingly proving more popular than anyone could have predicted, with its success even prompting estimates for total...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Online Video Regulations In China | Where Even Infidelity Is Censored Not To Exist

Those of us living in the west, be it the USA or Europe, often think ourselves as hard done by in...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Super Bowl XLII Adverts To Be Featured On YouTube and Hulu – But Not The Game Itself

Super Bowl XLII is about to start on traditional television all across America, with people having friends and family over to...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Jeff Zucker Claims All TV Pilots Suck! | Could Webisodes or Online Video Be The Answer?

We’ve just had the National Association of Television Program Executives conference in Las Vegas, and there were some interesting debates taking place,...
Mathew Ingram
1 min read

TV Is Changing! | Harris Survey Shows Strong Grassroots Demand For Interactive Viewing

Are you still doubting that the business of television is changing at an incredible rate? The role of traditional TV is...
Gilbert Hammer
1 min read

BitTorrent Not Just For Pirates? | Norwegian TV Broadcaster Makes Series Available For Free

For years the BitTorrent protocol has been blamed for encouraging the spread of pirated television shows, full length movies, and popular...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Video Advertising Opportunities Being Expanded By Use Of Transcoding Technologies

A lot of people have recently been discussing the video advertising outlook for 2008.  Most sites which provide some kind of...
Brendon Mills
1 min read