Broadband Content Bits, Jan 04, ’06: AOL Studio, BBC Archives, Metcalfe on Video

BBC news archives go online: Under its Creative Archive project…80 online news reports, for UK users to download and remix.

AOL’s New Studio Digs: AOL is moving along in construction on a full-scale production and post-production studio at its New York headquarters at 75 Rockefeller Plaza, where they plan to shoot many of their original programs.

Thomson Creates Telco Broadband Unit: A new development group that it said will speed new broadband and home-networking products for telco customers.

Metcalfe Vouches for Video: “There’ll be new operating systems required; the clunkers we have, you know Windows and Linux, are 25 years old — they’re going to need updating to adequately carry video,” Metcalfe says. “What they’re doing now is lame.”

Growing on-demand content may mean blockbuster’s end: The more I can find and get what appeals precisely to me, the less likely I’ll go see things that appeal to the broadest possible audience — i.e., a blockbuster.

Today’s BCB is sponsored by Maven Networks

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