- Straight Talk from Sony Broadband's Susskind
Emily Susskind is the person responsible for making sense of the links between Sony Corp.'s wide array of content and personal technology in a broadband world. She's a former Salomon Brothers executive who in 1996 joined Howard Stringer at Tele-TV— the ill-fated telephone-company video consortium — and reunited with him ......
- Internet TV Provides Variety Of Options
Ten years ago, Progressive Networks started "streaming" audio across the Internet and got people thinking about how the Internet might eventually be used to deliver radio and TV programming. Progressive is now RealNetworks, and video on the Internet is an exploding phenomenon. The "Mentos and Diet Coke" video drew millions ......
- DVDINSIDER: Sigma Designs and CinemaNow Enable Movie
Streaming to Connected DVD Players.
DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2004 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Sigma Designs, Inc., a leader in digital media processors for consumer appliances and CinemaNow, a leader in IP-based video-on-demand distribution and technology, announced that they are working together with KiSS Technology to create the first connected ......
- Quick Hits
TiVo Funnels More Internet Video Through DVRs Alviso, Calif. — TiVo unwrapped plans to offer new Internet content and services through its digital-video-recorder service last week. Subscribers with a broadband-connected TiVo Series2 DVR will be able to access content from CBS originally created for the Web, as well as that ......
- Tapping Into Internet TV Technology
Cable operators and technology vendors are starting to examine specific ways to deliver high-quality video over existing hybrid fiber-coaxial networks using Internet Protocol infrastructure. These steps toward Internet video technologies can’t exactly be called “IPTV over cable” — at least, not yet — but some see the industry’s embrace of ......
- TV Lands on Laptops
Any schmo with a Web server can chuck video up on the Internet. The hard part? Getting people to watch it. Dave Networks this month launched Next.TV, a 50-channel Internet video-on-demand service whose anchor content tenant is CBS, in an exclusive distribution deal with Hewlett-Packard. The PC maker is providing ......
- Tubing the Web: Internet TV pioneers finding viewers
but paltry profits.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] INTERNET TV has enjoyed explosive popularity in its infancy but no one is making much real money--yet. Take, as an example, Westwood-based Veoh Networks Inc., an Internet TV network of 500,000 shows and videos. It already enjoys 18 million users on its Web site, which is not ......