News: DSL Industry Inches Towards Standardisation – Internet.com
Digital-Lifestyles pre-empted and reported thousands of articles on the then-coming impact that technology was to have on all forms of Media. Launched in 2001 as a research blog to aid its founder, Simon Perry, present at IBC 2002, it grew into a wide ranging, multi-author publication that was quoted in many publications globally including the BBC, was described by the Guardian as 'Informative' and also cited in a myriad of tech publications before closing in 2009
WideRay – IR information exchange
WideRay is an interesting IR transmitting device that distributes or collects content of a wide area.
£200m fibre optic boost to West Ireland
News: £200m fibre optic superhighway to boost the West (of Ireland) – Irish Independent
UEFA rules streaming video offside
Sensible thinking from UEFA to not stream video, on a couple of points :-
- Cost of BB distribution of these clips could be crippling. I imagine they are going to build up addiction of this video content using NarrowBand (NB) and then introduce charging with a premium for the BB version
- I don’t know where most of the UEFA viewers would be, but it’s highly possible that the countires don’t have wide BB access.
Euro VOD market valued at E2.7Bn by 2006
News link: European video-on-demand market to be worth E2.7bn by 2006 – EuopeanMedia.net