Broadband Content Bits: Aug 15, 2005

Olympics in HD, Online?: China NetCom president Zhang Chunjiang wants 20008 Beijing Games to be webcast online..He has called on other Asian operators to jointly appeal to the IOC to take broadband seriously and work out some kind of arrangement that will allow online webcasts.

Broadband Is Too Important to Be Left to Cable-Phone Duopoly: Without competing providers, the broadband world would be a much poorer place, but the ongoing regulatory rollback doesn’t seem to recognize that.

Global Broadband Boom: The market for high speed service is expected to grow to 440 million by 2010, mostly through DSL cable.

UK firm offers legal video downloads: Tons of hype for BoxOffice365.com

Open source internet TV app coming out for Mac first: The first beta version of DTV, an open-source Internet TV application, is now available.

40% of Streaming Video Ads Being Delivered in Flash in ’05: Forty percent of the $321 million in gross streaming video ad billings in 2005 will be delivered in Flash (excluding video ad units sold against Internet music radio).

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