Comcast-NBC Deal Lets FCC Seek Web-TV Concessions; U.S. regulators may use their veto power over Comcast Corp.’s planned purchase of NBC Universal to demand concessions that help Web startups. (Bloomberg) FiOS To Offer YouTube, Net Radio; Verizon’s FiOS TV service has signed new deals that, it … Read More »
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Why Hulu Will—And Should—Charge For Hulu Plus; When Hulu finally announces its subscription plans, it will have a small but critical window of opportunity to explain itself to the market. If it gets the details of the plan right, it will succeed. (paidContent) Vudu Starts Offering … Read More »
Kids, stay in school! At least if you’re at NYU’s IPT program, that is, because its students can actually get credits for developing apps for Boxee, as NYU’s Shawn Van Every told the audience of the TV of Tomorrow Show … Read More »
BBC Signals an End to Era of Expansion; The BBC will close two radio stations, shut half its website and cut spending heavily on imported American programmes in an overhaul of services to be announced next month. (Times Online) Did Chatroulette Just Launch the Interactive Video … Read More »
Last week my cable went out. Most of my channels simply had the on-screen message “One Moment Please.” I called Comcast, navigated menus of phone tree options, and waited for a service rep. And waited. And waited. When the rep finally came on, they remotely reset … Read More »
Being a FiOS subscriber, I was excited a week back when I’d heard the telco TV provider’s widget bazaar featuring Facebook and Twitter for the TV had gone live. As an analyst covering the migration of social media from the web to the mobile … Read More »
A Comparison of Legal Terms from Different Hosting Services; what rights do you give up when posting to services like blip, Flickr or Dailymotion? (Advancing Usability) Report: Adobe’s DVRCast Launching Within a Week; product makes live video events instantly available on-demand, so you don’t have to … Read More »
Watch Subtle Watchmen Ads Through Innovid; video ad placement company changes up posters hung in the background of Kyle Piccolo — Comic Shop Therapist depending on who is watching ad what placements have been seen. (Ad Age) Kutiman Makes Ultimate YouTube Jam Band; Israeli musician blend … Read More »
Verizon is beta testing web video on its set-top boxes, according to a post this week by Dave Zatz. Initial partners include YouTube, Veoh, Blip.tv and Break.com. According to Zatz, rather than pulling content from YouTube’s H.264 servers the way TiVo and Panasonic do, Verizon … Read More »
