Silicon.com expands on my reasoning of why Yahoo’s Platinum video offering was a dud: their sports offering were anemic, at best. Even with Soccer World Cup, instead of serving millions of Europeans who would pay for delayed games they’d missed after early kick-offs in the Far East, it produced a paltry highlights and ‘classic moments’ package with strange pricing.
Whether it’s conferencing, movies on demand or plain old streaming or downloading of content to various devices, video remains a tough nut to crack, according to the story.
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