Broadband Content Bits: Sep 19, 2005

Video Search: Playing Well With Others: tartups like Truveo and Blinkx are using metadata and video crawling to fill the video search gaps left by Yahoo! and Google.

Hip Ma Bells?: A good overview story about the IPTV players in Europe, including Homechoice in UK and efforts in Korea, France and Italy. Last year, South Koreans spent an estimated $185 million on digital music, of which the telecoms raked in more than 70 percent.

Video on Demand Taking Its Share: In-Stat reports 25 percent of all U.S. cable TV subscribers have tried VoD. The cost to deliver VoD, in equipment and network operations costs, has dropped from $300 per video stream to $250 from mid-2004 to mid-2005.

EuroBasket Broadcast Live Online: On MediaZone, here

GSN gets into IPTV with Verizon: GSN has signed onto Verizon IPTV service…

New site offers indie films for free: Death to Hollywood, a new independent film site, is set to launch next month offering a range of downloadable films for free.

Today’s BCB is sponsored by thePlatform Media Publishing System

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