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Netflix to deliver Movies by Streaming Video

January 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Netflix is introducing a service to deliver movies and television shows directly to users’ PCs, not as downloads but as streaming video, which is not retained in computer memory. The service, which is free to Netflix subscribers, is meant to give the company a toehold in the embryonic world of Internet movie distribution. Netflix is [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Online Video

Babelgum to compete with Joost in IPTV

January 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Silvio Scaglia, the Italian telecoms entrepreneur behind Fastweb and CEO of e.Biscom, is several months away from launching Babelgum, a global internet television service. Milan-based e.Biscom is already funneling feature films and television shows — in addition to conventional Web and phone services to PCs and TVs in Milan, Rome, Florence, Naples, Bologna and Turin. [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Online Video · TV

CBS, Sling Media, Clip + Sling allows User Sharing

January 14th, 2007 · No Comments

CBS Corp. president and CEO Leslie Moonves unveiled a partnership with technology company Sling Media during his Consumer Electronics Show keynote address Tuesday that allows users to share their favorite entertainment content in an instant. Called Clip+Sling, the application gives Slingbox customers the power to grab short segments of programming and share them with their [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Online Video

MTV to produce Shows for Amp’d Mobile

January 11th, 2007 · No Comments

MTV Networks and youth-oriented Amp’d Mobile announced Wednesday that they plan to develop original episodic shows exclusively for the Amp’d phone. The agreement builds on two previous projects: “Lil’ Bush: Resident of the United States,” an animated series originally produced for Amp’d Mobile and now being adapted for Comedy Central later this year; and mtvU’s [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Mobile

Sling Media announces Vista, Palm 700p Treo support

January 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Sling Media is scheduled to announce at CES today SlingPlayer Mobile support for the Palm Treo 700p, the new smartphone currently offered by Sprint and Verizon. The company is also expected to show a technology demonstration of Slingbox running in Microsoft’s Vista, with some snazzy controls that take advantage of Vista’s Aero Glass UI feature. [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Mobile

Verizon announces Mobile TV service

January 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Verizon Wireless announced details of its broadcast mobile TV service, powered by Qualcomm’s MediaFLO, which is to be named V CAST Mobile TV. Verizon has signed content deals with many of the world’s best-known entertainment brands, including CBS, Fox, MTV, Comedy Central, NBC News, NBC Entertainment and Nickelodeon, representing a variety of options for all [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Mobile

BitTorrent, NETGEAR announce TV device

January 7th, 2007 · No Comments

San Francisco-based BitTorrent, and Silicon Valley network-equipment maker Netgear announced a partnership today to collaborate to deliver high-definition movies and TV Shows to HDTVs BitTorrent considers itself to be a major player in the emerging video download market, right alongside Apple. Though its software is known more for Napster-style illegal-file swapping, the company has scored [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · File Sharing · TV

Wallstrip Online Video Show Raises Funding

January 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Wallstrip, a three-month old online video show about the stock market, where “stock culture meets pop culture,” is raising over a half a million dollars, and will create more financial and VC focused shows.  Wallstrip takes an irreverent approach to the market, focusing each day on a single stock trading at an all-time high or a hot trend.  With the funding, Wallstrip plans to create five more original shows on the topics of finance and venture capital.

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Tags: Entertainment · Online Video

Sling Media announces “SlingCatcher”

January 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Sling Media will announce Monday that it will begin selling a device that aims to improve the home TV viewing experience. The new device, the SlingCatcher, allows viewers send TV streams to different rooms in the home, clip and send video from broadcast TV shows to friends and view media stored on PCs or on [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Online Video

Verizon Announces TV Shows for Mobile Phones

January 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Verizon Wireless is expected to announce on Sunday that it will offer full-length programming to its cellular subscribers from several major television networks, according to people apprised of the deal. The service, which should be in operation by the end of March, will consist of eight channels and will include popular shows from NBC, CBS, [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Mobile