October 5th, 2011
From CBC News
Canada's telecommunications regulator has rebuffed calls from broadcasters to regulate online video services such as Netflix.
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications released a report Wednesday detailing the results of fact-finding launched in May about mobile and internet media services, also known as "over-the-top" (OTT) services.
"Stakeholders calling for the imposition of regulatory obligations on OTT providers demonstrated that consumer adoption of OTT services is real and growing," the CRTC said.
The report noted that Netflix, which streams movies and TV episodes over the internet to TVs and other devices for a ...
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September 1st, 2011
By Christophor Rick for ReelSEO.com
Yahoo! was in online video, then they were out, then they were in and then out…and now, starting in about a month’s time, they’re all in again? It would seem so. Aside from being named in the Hulu bidding of late, they are also apparently shopping around a whole set of original online video content (
says Variety). So it seems that the zig-zaggy path of Yahoo! and online video is once again on a positive vector.
Wow, I just totally had some deja vu, like ...
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August 29th, 2011
By Christina Warren for Mashable
Apple has axed its TV rental program within iTunes.
The company introduced the ability to rent certain episodes of television programs for $0.99 each last September, in conjunction with the rejiggered Apple TV.
AllThingsD quotes an Apple spokesman as saying, “iTunes customers have shown they overwhelmingly prefer buying TV shows.”
Earlier this month, Apple added TV shows to its iCloud for iTunes offering. This gives users the ability to re-download purchased TV content on their iOS devices, Mac and PC computers and to stream via the Apple TV. This ends up negating the need for rentals in the ...
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August 16th, 2011
By Sam Schechner for the Wall Street Journal on August 15, 2011
Media companies are starting to cash in on Internet video. But that new money could be coming at a cost as fewer young people watch traditional television.
That battle between the old and new ways of watching TV is putting networks and studios in a tricky position—balancing a new, growing online market for shows with a traditional market that is facing new threats and still accounts for the lion's share of revenues.
Declines among younger viewers accelerated this TV season—a shift ...
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June 20th, 2011
Drumbeat would be too strong a word. But in recent months there’s been a steady patter of news indicating a fresh urgency in the world of original Web series: projects involving high-profile filmmakers, additional rounds of financing, redesigned and expanded video-sharing sites.
One thing that has characterized these developments is that they haven’t involved many actual, reviewable new series. (One exception was the Kiefer Sutherland vehicle “The Confession” on Hulu, which didn’t cause much of a stir but may be turned into a feature film anyway.)
The notion — driven by the success of ...
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