Here’s a quick update from Comcast Voices, the Comcast blog, on the upcoming On Demand Online trial. Apparently the MSO has added the Starz network to its roster of on-demand content that will be made available on Fancast and Comcast.net. The premium movie channel will serve up 300 movies online, though all in standard-def to [...]
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One of my questions leading up to the broadcast digital TV transition was how many OTA TV watchers would make the jump to cable, telco, or satellite service. According to an article by Todd Spangler, the answer is right around 653,000. Analyst Marci Ryvicker has estimates on how that number breaks down across categories too. [...]
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Comcast and Time Warner held a joint press conference today to announce details around the On Demand Online initiative. Specifically, Comcast will begin a trial next month to test out its authentication system and gather feedback on the new video service. Here are the deets as we now know them:
The trial will include roughly 5,000 [...]
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Online video content frequently gets lumped together as one big on-demand offering. After all, that is the value the Web brings. You go out and search for the content you want, and the Internet serves it up. However, there’s an interesting increase in “appointment TV” on the Web as well. For most big, live events, [...]
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The broadcast transition to digital television that finally takes place today in the US has some interesting incidental implications. If you’ve gotten through the transition itself okay, there are a few things to watch for in the aftermath. First is the dumping of old secondary TVs that have taken up space in kitchens and basements [...]
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A couple of articles caught my eye today that give a snapshot of online video watching in the here and now. Last summer Dan Rayburn estimated that fewer than three million consumers stream online video to their TVs using a hardware solution like the Xbox or Roku box. Today he says that number has hardly [...]
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One of the best sessions I attended at Streaming Media East this week was on scaling Web video delivery. Dan Rayburn moderated, and participating panelists included execs from Move Networks, Level 3, CBSSports.com, and MLB.com. Two things struck me. First, these guys have done incredible things online, including building large audiences, rapidly improving video quality [...]
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It’s a sign that the TV industry has changed when conversations from the Streaming Media East (SME) conference start sounding an awful lot like they could be transplanted directly from The Cable Show. Yesterday I sat in on an SME session entitled “Online Video and Set-Top Boxes”. With execs from Verizon, Motorola, TiVo and Showtime, [...]
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Here’s an interesting little tidbit. While trolling through Comcast’s VOD guide, I clicked on a category I’ve never noticed before called “The Cutting Edge”. That led me to a sub-menu with Sci-Fi, gaming, and anime choices, as well as a button labeled “Fancast”. Since Fancast is Comcast’s online portal for video, I was curious why [...]
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In recognition of the need to bridge the gap to the Internet, both Comcast and Time Warner Cable have now said they will make select programming available online to TV subscribers in the second half of this year. Comcast’s Karin Gilford promised as much in a recent interview with NewTeeVee about the upcoming “On Demand [...]
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