Last night saw NY Video 2.0 meeting in the plush surroundings  of the Roosevelt Hotel’s Grand Ballroom.

Unusual for such an occasion, but thanks to the courtesy from another trade show that was using the space and gave it to our group.

There were some obvious technical problems which were expected, and some that weren’t, including an out of control SMS projected board of “board participants” who started texting all sorts of crazy notes during the presentations. You had to feel bad for the presenters.

The line-up last night included the following companies, which each had about five minutes to give their pitch.

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As most of you who have been dwelling on this planet for at least the last four years will already know, the next Olympic Games are being held next year in Beijing.

This time around however one of the main events seems to be broadband video as there will be blanket coverage of the entire event (yes the whole thing, even the Beach Volleyball) courtesy of NBC Universal.

Of the 3600 hours of coverage planned 2200 of them will be streamed live over the internet. There are also plans currently being firmed up to provide some wireless coverage that will be unveiled officially some time before the event.

Because of the time differences, for many Olympic enthusiasts, these broadcasts will be in the middle of the night. Still, it’s nice to know that those of us in the western hemisphere will at least have the opportunity to catch our favourite events live.

[Via Broadcast Newsroom]

AT&T have stated on a number of different occasions that it won’t block, degrade or censor websites.

This argument has prevented legislation and regulation that would see telecom companies such as them be made to play fair with content providers.

Not to get too technical here, but they didn’t promise not to censor, did they? Let’s add that little crime against speech to the list of reasons why Internet Freedom/Net Neutrality is a good idea.

It seems as if AT&T was the sponsor of the Webcast of a Pearl Jam concert at Lollapalooza on Saturday night (Aug. 4). Soon after the performance ended, the band started getting word from its fans that part of a song had been cut out. 

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IPTV Evangelist has several video interviews with some of the important people in IPTV and broadband video including:

• Fred McIntyre - Senior Vice President - AOL Video
• Sean Alexander- Director of Silverlight Media - Microsoft Corporation
• Dan Rayburn - Executive Vice President - StreamingMedia.com

[IPTV Evangelist Streaming Media East 2007 Interviews]

Streaming Media East has kicked off today and will run until tomorrow showcasing hot new developments in the broadband video market. Unfortunately I’m a little to busy to run off to New York but you can catch coverage of the event at the following sites:

• TVWorldwide.com- LiveWebcast
• Beet.tv - Video blogging
• LostRemote.com - Live Blogging
• IPTVEvangelist.com - Video Interviews

Funding Galore

Running up to the event there has been a lot of funding announcements popping up:

• ScanScout Video Ad Broker Secures $7 Million
• Joost bags $45 million dollars in financing
• Roo Secures $25 Million More Funding
• CBS Acquires WallStrip for $5 million
• Mogulus | New Personal Internet TV Platform Raises $1.2 Million
• Black20 Gets Funding from Jeff Jarvis
• VatorTV | Entrepreneur Video Community Raises Funding