Companies that have an interest in Web Television, video and TV via the Internet (IPTV)

Broadband Video Companies

Zediva Is Dead After MPAA Gets Its Way | Hollywood Kills Another Internet Innovation

Another day, another innovative use of the Internet to deliver content to paying customers is killed by Hollywood. Because piracy is...
Dave Parrack
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Feature-Length YouTube Movie ‘Life In A Day’ Now Available To Watch For Free On YouTube

Life In A Day was always an ambitious project: to capture one day in the life of thousands of people. Did...
Dave Parrack
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SeeSaw Shuts After Criterion Funding Fails To Materialize | U.K. Streaming TV Service Dies

SeeSaw is no more, with the website now displaying a simple message saying, “Thanks for your support but SeeSaw is no...
Dave Parrack
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Hulu Adds The CW To Channel Line-Up | Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural

Hulu is busy expanding to new international markets and acquiring more content for its viewers. You wouldn’t think that until a...
Dave Parrack
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Original Programming Coming To YouTube | 100 Premium Channels With Big Budgets On Way

Not content with offering an alternative to broadcast television and cable channels, the Web is starting to mimic its longtime brother-in-arms....
Dave Parrack
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Netflix Has A Bad Day & The Future Looks Dire

Wow. That is what you call a bad day at the stock exchange. Not for the traders who have probably still...
Dave Parrack
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Netflix Coming To UK and Ireland In 2012 | Going Head-To-Head With Amazon’s Lovefilm

Netflix is coming to the U.K. and Ireland. Finally. But it’ll face tough competition in what has become the gateway to...
Dave Parrack
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Steve Jobs Eyeing Apple Television Set Before Death | Integrated iCloud Apple TV Possible

Steve Jobs revealed some vague future plans for Apple before he passed away from pancreatic cancer earlier this month. Including a...
Dave Parrack
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Online Video Translastion Site ViKi Funded To The Tune Of $20 Million As Investors Pile In

When investors start stepping over each other to put their money into a company you know it’s on the way up....
Dave Parrack
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Mysterious Vdio Confirmed, But Is It Serious Competition For Netflix Or Just Another Joost?

Netflix appears to have a new competitor waiting in the wings ready to strike while the U.S. DVD and streaming giant...
Dave Parrack
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Sesame Street’s YouTube Channel Hacked To Show Hardcore Porn As The Muppets Go Bad

When a channel aimed entirely at young children is hacked to show wall-to-wall porn something has gone seriously awry. And I...
Dave Parrack
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The Top 10 Most Pirated Movies On BitTorrent Suggest Hollywood and MPAA Sorely Mistaken

Movie piracy is all bad, right? No good can come from it, right? If a movie makes it onto BitTorrent (as...
Dave Parrack
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Hulu Is No Longer For Sale As Disney, News Corps., Comcast, and Providence Backtrack

Were you hoping to buy Hulu and had a spare $2 billion plus lying around the house not doing anything? Then...
Dave Parrack
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Universal Cancels ‘Tower Heist’ Premium VOD Experiment After Boycott By Movie Theaters

Under pressure from exhibitors Universal Pictures has backed away from its plans to release Tower Heist as a VOD stream just...
Dave Parrack
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Hollywood Rolls Out ‘UltraViolet’ | A DRM Cloud Solution To Rival Apple iTunes and Save DVDs

Hollywood has finally realized the Internet is here to stay, digital content is here to stay, and piracy is here to...
Dave Parrack
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Netflix Backtracks, Kills Qwikster To Appease Customers | Short-term Gain, Longterm Mistake

Well, that didn’t last long. And I don’t think any of us saw it coming. Qwikster is dead, and a dual-service...
Dave Parrack
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YouTube Movie Rentals Arrives In U.K. | New Service Is Competition For Amazon’s LoveFilm

YouTube is now offering its fledgling movie rentals service in the U.K. The content is good, the prices fair. The sky...
Dave Parrack
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Comcast Testing $60 Premium VOD | Watch ‘Tower Heist’ At Home While It’s In Theaters

Hollywood is hoping to cash in by offering premium video-on-demand services which will see movies streamed direct to people’s homes just...
Dave Parrack
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Xbox 360 Becomes Cable Box As Microsoft Turns Its Games Console Into An Entertainment Hub

Microsoft wants the Xbox 360 to be the only set-top box you need to have sat next to your TV. And...
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Watch Transformers: Dark Of The Moon Online With Direct Streaming Option From Paramount

You can now stream Transformers: Dark Of The Moon directly from Paramount Pictures, in what the company is calling “an experiment.”...
Dave Parrack
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Ivi TV Asks Us All To Help Legal Fight Against Cable Companies With Crowd-Funded Finances

Ivi TV has turned to crowd-funding in order to pay the huge legal bills it will be facing as it gets...
Dave Parrack
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The Dangers Of YouTube | ITV Uses Video Game Footage For ‘Exposure: Gaddafi and the IRA’

YouTube is good for many things: videos of cute kittens, videos of people injuring themselves, free TV shows and movies. What...
Dave Parrack
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Hulu Auction News – Google & Dish High Bidders

The fight to acquire Hulu has been a long (though not particularly bloody) one. It now looks as though either Google...
Dave Parrack
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New Kindle Fire Tablet Will Do Wonders For Amazon Instant Video And Content Consumption

With the unveiling of its first tablet, the Kindle Fire, Amazon has done more than just deal a serious blow to...
Dave Parrack
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Netflix Co-Founder Defends Qwikster, Labels Spin-Off As Smart, Brave, Disciplined Move

You’re probably sick of hearing about the whole Netflix/Qwikster debacle by now. As am I. So perhaps we should give the...
Dave Parrack
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Amazon Adds Fox Content To Amazon Prime Streaming Service As Netflix Rivalry Hots Up

With Netflix still recovering from its recent woes, there is a window of opportunity open and waiting for a serious competitor...
Dave Parrack
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Netflix and DreamWorks Strike A Deal | HBO Loses Content After Streaming Video Deal

Netflix has had somewhat of a tumultuous time of late, what with raising the prices and then splitting the two halves...
Dave Parrack
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YouTube Adds Magisto To Video Toolbox | Automatic Video Editor Enters The Bigtime

Two things are probably key for any tech startup looking to make it beyond the first year: funding, and a partner...
Dave Parrack
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Hulu Hits 1 Million Subscribers As Facebook Integration Begins To Offer Social Viewing

This week has been a big one for Hulu. Not only has it officially announced it has hit the one million...
Dave Parrack
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Automatic Video Editor Magisto Debuts With $5.5 Million Series B Funding From Li Ka-Shing

Automatic video editor Magisto is now open to the public. A public which is taking more video footage than ever thanks...
Dave Parrack
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