Posted by Simon Perry on 27 November 2008 | Tagged as: UK, Video on Demand (VoD), Mobile, Cellular
The Met Office, well-know weather forecasters, are to offer a world’s first - a free-of-charge (beyond any of your own mobile data charges), video on-demand weather service to your mobile phone.
Access will be via a branded portal (lovely to hear that phrase again :) ), giving access to weather forecasts that will be updated several […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 16 July 2008 | Tagged as: Content, Distribution, Business, Microsoft, USA, Analysis, Video on Demand (VoD), Content Deals, Gaming
Netflix and Microsoft have signed a deal to stream films and TV programmes to the Xbox 360.
Starting in the autumn, over 10,000 films and TV episodes available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers who are Netflix subscribers, all for no additional cost.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 10 April 2008 | Tagged as: Distribution, Copy Protection, Video on Demand (VoD)
Adobe have launched a stand-alone Media Player (AMP).
Using Adobe Air, the AMP plays back high quality video both on PCs and Apple computers at standard def and 1080p.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 9 April 2008 | Tagged as: Distribution, BBC iPlayer, UK, BBC, Video on Demand (VoD), Cross platform
BBC iPlayer is further expanding the hardware platforms that it’s available on - the last was a troublesome iPhone launch.
The latest is the Nintendo Wii, announced today, bringing the advantage that the iPlayer content can be viewed on a ‘normal’ TV, rather than on a computer screen.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 28 February 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Video Services, USA, Video on Demand (VoD)
The Disney-ABC Television Group in the US has released a Video on Demand (VoD) service. Not exactly news for DL is it? We’ve been reporting this type of thing for years.
Here’s the news. What ABC have done, in an inexplicable move, is _remove_ functionality that is standard in VoD services normally. They’ve decided to take […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 6 December 2007 | Tagged as: Services, USA, Video on Demand (VoD), HDTV
Just over two years ago we covered the launch of FiOS TV, an IPTV service by US operator Verizon, that operates over fibre optic connections.
HD VOD - High Definition Video On Demand - has now being rolled out to a number of the regions covered by the FiOS TV service - Richmond and Virginia Beach, […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 12 November 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Content, Video on Demand (VoD)
More retail big boys look to cut themselves a slice of the growing film download market.
Posted by Simon Perry on 13 July 2007 | Tagged as: Business, BBC iPlayer, Microsoft, UK, BBC, Video on Demand (VoD)
Finally the BBC Trust appears to be open to taking about the iPlayer going Open Source.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 9 July 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, Content, Microsoft, Video on Demand (VoD)
MSN claims that their live streams of the climate crisis gigs attracted a record breaking online audience.
Posted by Mark Harris on 27 June 2007 | Tagged as: Services, UK, BBC, Video on Demand (VoD), Software
At long last - after a _very_ long period of beta and a whole lot more talking, the BBC have given 27 July as the date of release.
