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

Broadband Video Companies

Xbox 360 Gets DivX Functionality – Xbox Live Marketplace Video Store Launching In UK

After last month’s announcement that DixX support was coming to the Sony PS3 games console, there was speculation that the same...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

MyStrands Social Music Service Raises $24 Million In Funding From Spanish Bank

Back in September, we covered the launch of MyStrands.tv, the music video accompaniment to MyStrands, a social music network. At the...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

YouTube Still Dominating Online Video Market

A ComScore report has further confirmed what we all suspected, that Google YouTube completely dominates the online video market. The report...
Dave Parrack
54 sec read

Apple IPTV Channel Launched | The Digital Lifestyle Offers 24Hrs A Day For Apple Fanatics

Let’s just suppose for a moment that you’re an Apple devotee. There are millions of them out there, swayed by the...
Paul Glazowski
3 min read

Brightcove.tv Gets Canned In Light Of Failure To Beat YouTube At Own Game

By way of sending out a message to all their many users, Brightcove has announced that it is soon going to...
Michael Garrett
2 min read

BBC, ITV and Channel 4 Join Forces & Battle YouTube With ‘Kangaroo’ Online TV Service

It seems Britain’s three biggest broadcasters, namely the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, want a slice of the increasingly popular online...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

HDNet Video Distribution Debate | Mark Cuban Supporting P2P Blocking by ISPs a Hypocrisy

When it comes to views on copyright and net neutrality many companies will obviously always lean towards the ideal that benefits...
Gigi Sohn
3 min read

Hulu – A Great Free Video Service That Seems To Have Improved Greatly Since Launch

At last, the wait is over, and I have finally received my chance to test out Hulu. Hulu is the video service that...
Michael Garrett
2 min read

Cable Companies Need To Open Up Their Walled Garden To Compete In Digital Age

I was hoping to upgrade to an HDTV this holiday season, and apparently I’m not alone, with HDTV at the top...
Alex Curtis
3 min read

Vuze – A Legal P2P BitTorrent Service Asks FCC For Help After Being Blocked By Various ISPs

Right from the off, I think we need to face some facts about P2P services.  While certainly capable of acting as...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

Mogulus Launches After Long Private Beta | You Too Can Have Your Own TV Channel

Mogulus, a New York based video start up company, has been running in private closed beta for over four months. It...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Introduces New Anti-Bullying Channel | Could ‘Beatbullying’ Video Messages Help?

Bullying can take many forms, and since the evolution of the web, it has even become a problem online, with many...
Paul Glazowski
2 min read

‘Quarterlife’ Goes From Web Exclusive To NBC Network Thanks To Writers Guild Strike

Quarterlife is the new Web drama about twenty somethings, created by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. There were rumours even before...
Mathew Ingram
1 min read

Reviewing The Collision Of Traditional TV and IPTV Services | What Does The Future Hold?

Television has always been traditionally distributed by cable or satellite systems, but now a new pretender to the throne to be the...
Brendon Mills
2 min read

The Quest For Internet TV Nirvana | Patience, Perspective & Revenue Urgently Needed

Cliff Edwards recently wrote an article for Business Week which brings up some important questions about the future of Internet TV,...
Gilbert Hammer
1 min read

Sony’s PS3 To Get DivX Support In Software Update | Will The Xbox 360 Follow Suit?

Earlier this week, DivX announced they would soon be offering support for the Sony Playstation 3 games console. The codec technology...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube To Go High Definition | New Player and High Quality Video Streams On Way

How to describe YouTube in a short, succinct paragraph while truly getting across to the readers how successful a site it...
Paul Glazowski
3 min read

Online Television News Roundup | Twentieth TV Working With Yahoo, Zillow, Lifetime

Every day, there seems to be a new story about one company or another trying to get in to the old...
Mathew Ingram
1 min read

Bebo Announces ‘Open Media’ Initiative | Social Network Joins Online TV Revolution

Bebo, currently the third largest social network, behind the big guns of MySpace and Facebook, has thrown it’s hat in to...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Microsoft To Take On YouTube & Flickr With An All Encompassing Digital Media Hub

Hey everybody, Microsoft is making an attempt at entering the online media realm! And they’re taking on the big boys like...
Paul Glazowski
3 min read

Maven Networks Leads Internet TV Advertising Forum | Personalising Online Video Adverts

I read an interesting news release a few weeks ago from Maven Networks on the Streaming Media website, about the formation...
Mark Fears
1 min read

NBC Direct Arrives | But Like Hulu & The Daily Show Archives, It’s For US Citizens Only

NBC Direct launched its public beta yesterday, and the blogosphere was immediately awash with thoughts on the service and reviews of...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

NBC Direct Launches With Full Episodes | Not Quite The Great Service We All Expected

After some false starts, NBC has at last officially launched the download service for its television programming, known as NBC Direct....
Michael Garrett
1 min read

Making Internet TV More Mobile | From The iPhone Downwards, Quality Is The Key

Although Internet television is growing at an incredibly fast rate, it seems moving the medium on to mobile devices is not...
Brendon Mills
1 min read

YouTube Canada Launches | How Lame Is It, and Did We Need It In The First Place?

YouTube launched yet another of their localised international versions of the site on Tuesday, at a flashy press conference with YouTube...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

AT&T Introduce ISP Copyright Filtering Technology Called Vobile VideoDNA

The battle for blocking copyrighted materials from being distributed around the web could be about to get even murkier. It was...
Gigi Sohn
2 min read

Could Writers Guild Strike See Online Television & Video Popularity Grow Massively?

The 12,000 members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike on Monday over new media revenue and DVD royalties....
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Revver Gets A Redesign & New Features | Is Copying YouTube New Video Sharing Standard?

Rather than innovate, when you have a site which is head and shoulders above all the competition, both in terms of...
Michael Garrett
2 min read

Embedding A Full Movie In A Post With Hulu | This Site Could Now Self Destruct…

This blog post may well self destruct at some point. I feel I should warn you that there’s a good chance...
Brad Linder
1 min read

MySpaceTV Romantic Comedy Series ‘Faintheart’ | MySpace Members Part Of Cast

MySpace seem to be getting increasingly more adventurous in their aims to produce professionally made, high budget drama series. In spring,...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read