Broadband Video Start-Up companies.
BSkyB has revealed a little more about the on-demand TV service it’s going to start offering U.K. residents from this summer. It’s called Now TV and the company thinks it “marks he next chapter in our story.”
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BSkyB is a satellite broadcaster 39.1 percent owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. It has been offering premium subscription services to British households for over 20 years, and millions of homes have the necessary dishes attached to an outside wall.
Sky and Virgin Media (the cable TV equivalent) have between them a large percentage of the British population signed up to premium monthly subscription plans that enable them to receive channels that aren’t free-to-air. But there are millions who haven’t signed, and likely never will sign, up.

In a sign of things to come, Boxee has killed its desktop app in order to throw all its time, effort, and money behind the Boxee Box. This move brings it into direct competition with the likes of
BSkyB is making a serious move into the online TV market, launching its own service later this year. Yes, it will likely cannibalize the company’s own business, but it’s a very necessary step at this stage in time.
Another day, another innovative use of the Internet to deliver content to paying customers is killed by Hollywood. Because piracy is a much better option, obviously.
SeeSaw is no more, with the website now displaying a simple message saying, “Thanks for your support but SeeSaw is no longer available.” Thankfully the U.K. is being targeted as the next market to move into by other services.
Netflix appears to have a new competitor waiting in the wings ready to strike while the U.S. DVD and streaming giant is languishing on the ropes. But ‘appears’ is the operative word, because Vdio is as yet an unknown quantity.
Ivi TV has turned to crowd-funding in order to pay the huge legal bills it will be facing as it gets head-to-head with the cable companies and television networks. But not many people seem to be willing to dip their hands in their pockets.