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Channel 4 Dumping 4oD In Favor Of All 4 | New Streaming Television Hub For UK Viewers

4oD has been a successful effort, with Channel 4 having offered on-demand television across a range of platforms for several years. But the...

Dave Parrack
Sep 12, 2014 1 min read

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Top 10 IPTV Awards For 2007 | The Products and Technologies Shaping The Industry

It’s new year, which means it must be time for the ubiqutous year-end list? This best of 2007, which we hope captures...

Dave Parrack
Jan 1, 2008 5 min read

Apple & 20th Century Fox Deal Allows iTunes Users To Rent Films By The Studio

There has been widespread anticipation and rumours of a deal being concocted by Apple and Fox ahead of Macworld Expo ’08. ...

Paul Glazowski
Dec 29, 2007 2 min read

The Royal Family Team Up With YouTube | The Queen Unveils ‘The Royal Channel’

Our sister site WebTVHub reported last week on the new YouTube channel completely devoted to the British royal family. But we...

Paul Glazowski
Dec 28, 2007 1 min read

TorrentSpy Falls To The Power Of The MPAA | Tampering With Evidence Is Never A Good Idea

The MPAA is becoming increasingly like the RIAA, in its attempts at going after organisations, and individuals, who share (or allow...

Paul Glazowski
Dec 25, 2007 1 min read

Avot mV – New Features & iPhone/iPod Touch Support | Watch Video Clips On Your Mobile

We reviewed Avot mV back at the beginning of October, and were enthusiastic by how simple yet brilliant the application was....

Dave Parrack
Dec 23, 2007 2 min read

Vuze Attracts Investment | Video Distribution Company Also Recruits Former TiVo CEO

As regular readers of WebTVWire will know, Vuze is a video content distribution company built upon the P2P-based platform Azureus. It’s...

Paul Glazowski
Dec 21, 2007 1 min read

A Successful Hulu Launch | Will Other TV Networks Take Note Of The Example Set?

Hulu launched back in October, and although opinion was divided, there were a fair few people who criticised the service. It...

Michael Garrett
Dec 20, 2007 1 min read

Writers Strike Continues | Ripe For IPTV and Online Video To Take Traditional TV’s Place?

The writers strike is now in its second month and shows no sign of ending. As we discussed when the strike...

Gilbert Hammer
Dec 18, 2007 58 sec read

BBC iPlayer Relaunch | Out Of Beta On Christmas Day – Now With Mac & Linux Support

It looks as though the BBC has listened to the criticisms levelled at it after it launched its iPlayer in July...

Dave Parrack
Dec 17, 2007 1 min read

OPENhulu – Hulu Videos For Everyone, Invitation Or Not | How Long Will It Last?

When Hulu first launched in late October, it received praise from all quarters, and since then, everyone has either begged, borrowed...

Dave Parrack
Dec 16, 2007 1 min read

New York Video 2.0 Meeting Coverage | Pitches From New Startups Of Video & IPTV

Last night saw NY Video 2.0 meeting in the plush surroundings of the Roosevelt Hotel’s Grand Ballroom. Unusual for such an...

Gilbert Hammer
Dec 12, 2007 2 min read

YouTube AdSense Revenue Share Scheme Being Extended To More Of The General Public

YouTube have been experimenting with advertising on videos for a good few months now, and by all accounts, it;s been quite...

Paul Glazowski
Dec 11, 2007 1 min read

YouTube’s New AtGoogleTalks Video Page | Google Breaks Own 10 Minute Rule On Uploads

Google’s time limit for user-submitted videos uploaded to YouTube is well established, and known by almost everyone these days. Ten minutes. That’s...

Paul Glazowski
Dec 9, 2007 1 min read

Is YouTube The Proper Forum For Human Rights Abuse Videos? The Wael Abbas Case

What is YouTube for? We all know it is there as a means for ordinary people to make and upload clips...

Dave Parrack
Dec 8, 2007 1 min read

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
Dec 7, 2007 1 min read

Video Streaming Gets More Affordable With Release Of Adobe Media Service Software

Adobe hasn’t always been a favourite company of ours, especially after the recent PDF overlay advertising plan with the folks at...

Paul Glazowski
Dec 6, 2007 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
Dec 5, 2007 1 min read

High Speed, High Quality Digital Film Downloads Demand Growing In The UK

Today saw a survey which produced the interesting yet thoroughly predictable result that there is now an overwhelming demand for fast and...

Paul Glazowski
Dec 4, 2007 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
Dec 3, 2007 54 sec read

The DSP Technology Behind Video Transcoding

RipCode is a company offering on-demand video transcoding solutions to ease the process of re-purposing video into multiple viewing formats. If...

Brendon Mills
Dec 3, 2007 33 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
Dec 1, 2007 3 min read

Zml.com | Cheap DRM Free Movie Downloads – Get iPod Ready, PDA, DivX & Hi Res Formats

In a move sure to upset the MPAA, and anti-piracy organisations everywhere, the people behind AllOfMp3 have now created a similar...

Dave Parrack
Nov 30, 2007 1 min read

Locate TV – Allowing You To Locate Your Favourite TV Programmes & When They’re On

LocateTV is a site that despite being Web 2.0, makes simplicity its main aim. It is currently in it’s beta incarnation, which...

Leslie Poston
Nov 29, 2007 2 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
Nov 28, 2007 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
Nov 28, 2007 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
Nov 27, 2007 3 min read

French Government Inks Deal To Punish File Sharers By Cutting Internet Connection

This week saw a landmark move by the French government which could see illegal file sharers, of music, and eventually movies,...

Leslie Poston
Nov 26, 2007 2 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
Nov 25, 2007 2 min read

SuTree – The Video Instruction Site Gets Improvements, Upgrades & More Content

SuTree is an interesting site, launched about 6 months ago, whose aim it is to educate and entertain using the medium...

Phil Butler
Nov 24, 2007 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
Nov 23, 2007 3 min read

YouTube Unveils New Features For Content Creators | Studio App, Crowdfunding, 60fps YouTube would be nothing without content, and original content, no less. And the people who create that original content need as many tools at their disposal as possible. YouTube has delivered a new set... Read More