Chris Anderson has a synopsis on his Long Tail website that points to a New York Metro article about the new economics of TV. The gist is that while traditional TV show production is not only costly, there’s a certain low watermark of viewership that has to be achieved for the show to stay on […]

Verizon’s internet TV service, FiOS, has been around since September 2005.  However, due to added costs in building out the fiber network needed to make the IPTV viable, Verizon have announced a price hike of 7.5%.  Ouch!  That will work out at an average monthly fee of $42.99, which will start in January 2007.
TiVo also […]

What’s Going On With YouTube Syndication?
For the past two or so weeks, none of the YouTube videos embedded one of my weblogs won’t play on my computer in the Firefox web browser. But YouTube videos on my other weblogs have no trouble playing. Anyone else finding something similar?
Investment In IPTV To Grow
According to a survey […]

Several telecom operators seem to betting big on IPTV in India, yet there are less than 2Mln broadband connections there. What’s more, a broadband connection with a bandwidth cap of more than 250Mb/mth costs US$40, or about 1800 Rs (Rupees) - a considerable amount of money for most citizens. (A reasonable apartment in an expensive […]

There are a number of ways that you can experience video, apart from a regular TV set: (1) online video; (2) IPTV (Internet TV), live or recorded; (3) destkop video calling; (4) mobile video calling; (5) mobile TV; (6) mobile video. Some are live, some recorded. For example #5 refers to live or recorded IPTV […]