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May 12, 2007
Pirellifilm did impress with
a great line of special online movies.
March 13, 2007
Viacom
demands $1 billion compensation from youtube for copyright
infringements.
Finest examples for new free Internet TV are the news at
goodnightburbank.com
and Tiki
Bar with great design and programming.
February 17, 2007
soapbox.msn.com has opened it`s gate for video upload.
Surprisingly the Flash Video format was chosen to gain competitiveness
in the race with youtube.
adbrite has invited first beta testers for video advertising
but the system is still very poor.
February 10, 2007
cbsnews.com
is providing a variety of videos including latest news as
real streams. Sadly enough, all streams are oversized and
only run on very fast lines.
February 03, 2007
a youtube for live stuff is emerging rapidly at stickam.com
from Los Angeles where already 300.000 members have become
pioneers in a new style of communication.
January 29, 2007
Google is converting his Internet TV Network into a
video search site.
Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp has acquired 10% of the loss making
Australian ROO video distribution network for $12 million.
In fact management, technology and strategies had never fully
convinced. But perhaps the Newscorp owned myspace know how
might be able to improve features and market understanding.
January 19, 2007
The crew that gave the world KaZaa and Skype is now
a few $billions worth and their latest P2P strike will hit
the global TV industry with the"Venice Project".
Right now Beta testers are invited to join their organization
which operates under the name "Joost".
January 10, 2007
The Brightcove network is expanding
fast with loads of cash invested into modern network technology
for video publishers and advertisers. Stations like tastetv.com
or the distribution of Reuters News show what they are striving
for.
December
27, 2006
Worldwide telcos are now keen
on charging website providers for content delivery although
without content nobody would want their lines. In the U.S.
Senators like John Sununu are fighting to give the big telcos
the right to bill publishers heavily so that users and producers
should better support savetheinternet.com,
a movement that is trying to maintain the freedom of the Internet.
The German Telekom had to postpone
the launch of their T Home Internet TV for several months
due to Microsoft`s software problems with media player.
msn has decided to build strength
inside the online video market and a few producers have been
hired to create exclusive content.
yahoo has hired Kevin Sites
to generate video content.
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair
is perhaps the first leader, who has understood about the
meaning of Internet videos with it`s communicational opportunities.
It just feels a liitle sad to see poor asp and no linux at
his site.
Sadly enough the domain streamingmedia.com
has been captured by some folks who only seem to be interested
in spreading some promotional sales mails.
aol has announced the launch
of free Internet TV under the name of In2TV where 3.400 hours
of old programming will become available for broadband users.
4.800 episodes like "Kung Fu" will be shown.
maniatv.com from Colorado
is one of the true pioneers of global Internet TV with a staff
of 85 creative folks enabled by several million dollars funding.
Live casts are their strength and by now they claim 2 million
viewer per month.
revver.com
is a new website, where also amateurs can upload their videos
in order to eventually earn some advertising revenues. Behind
the operation stands for example Ian Clarke, the founder the
Freenet Filesharing network and with 80 million views for
certain cartoon videos chance look swell, that advertising
dollars will now stream much faster into the accounts of talented
new film makers. ... here`s
the story with the links
Several websites without any real media background try to
make money with even incomplete Internet TV
station listings. webtvlist.com
is just one sad example which is filling the search engines
whilst many real Television sites have problems in getting
listed and found.
Apple has launched an Itunes video
service which has taken off as large as expected. With 20
Gig+ capacity on their latest Ipod units there is now also
no longer a capacity problem and one million videos were sold
in less than 20 days.
current.tv
by Al Gore one of the very latest Internet TV stations.
tvover.net
is a new board for websites dedicated to Internet TV.
The world`s best News Video Service
still comes from the BBC whilst CNN videos fail to even start
on most PCs with a poorly programmed Media Player solution,
which only runs on latest media player 9.
Videos and Internet TV Stations have
become key markets, that Yahoo, Google, msn and blinkx are
now trying to capitalize on more intensively.
The new yahoo video
search presents at least some results however yahoo music
is currently delivering 350 million videos each month.
Election time in the U.S. had shoved video creativity to
new levels, for example at instantfilms.tv.
tvtonic.com
is a new distibution form for streaming media where you have
to download a new player for full screen settings to receive
in dvd quality.
msnbc
has now also entered the streaming video age and the UK offers
virtuetv.com
and 3btv.com,
both at just another giant level.
zilo.com
is a New York based Internet TV Network dedicated to students
and young adults with stunning streams like from Lil`Kim etc.
launch/yahoo
claims to have the most videos on the web and heavy.com
presents a great sound and design.
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