VOD Articles

Warner Bros Announces New VOD - TheWB.com

The Warner Bros. Television Group today unveiled two new broadband destinations and other key components of its multiplatform digital media business strategy at a New York press conference. The announcements, made by Bruce Rosenblum, President, Warner Bros. Television Group, include: - The launch of TheWB.com, ...

Tivo To Launch Youtube Videos Directly On Television

TiVo Inc., the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced an agreement with YouTube™  that will offer access to YouTube videos directly from the TV via a TiVo DVR.  The service will be available later this year ...

Netflix Plugin for Windows Media Center

As one of our predictions for online video in 2008, we touched upon bridging the gap between computers and the livingroom as far as online video is concerned. And, we have already seen companies announcing new devices to support VOD (video on demand) and IPTV ...

HBO Is Testing New Online Video Service

According to the Wall Street Journal, HBO is currently testing a new online video service that allows subscribers to watch their programming on computers or download for later viewing. The new service, HBO Broadband, is being tested currently in Green Bay Wisconsin. According to HBO, ...

Rentals To Drive Paid Online Video Growth

Already in the first month of 2008, several companies have announced plans to launch or expand online video rental services, including Apple, Netflix, and others. According to new research released by ABI Research, online rental videos will lead the way in terms of the paid ...

Netflix Offers Unlimited Online Movie Streaming

It's official. Netflix has lifted its monthly time limits for online video viewing of its movies (starting Monday 1/14/2008). Netflix plans to remove the hourly limits that it previously placed on its users.  Previously users (with 3 movies package were limited to 17 hours of ...

Netflix To Bring Online Movies Into Living Rooms

Looks like my predictions for online video in 2008 are already coming true... #8 Online Video in the Home - We will continue to see movement towards development of devices similar to AppleTV whereby online video and online movies will start to migrate into our ...

What Is A Vodcast or Video Podcast?

A growing trend online is podcast video. While podcasting was originally only for audio files, more people are beginning to send video, especially with broadband connections more accessible. To podcast video, content distributors enclose it in a web syndication file that users can download and ...

Baidu Video Search - Research Report

Baidu co-founded with the Beijing University of Chinese Search Behavior Research Center on November 15 issued the 2007 video search industry research report for China. Baidu, which launched its video search service back in February of this year, has issued a report based on the ...