By Daniel Roth
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It had taken the better part of a decade, but Reed Hastings was finally ready to unveil the device he thought would upend the entertainment industry. The gadget looked as unassuming as the original iPod—a sleek black box, about the size of a paperback novel, with a few jacks in back—and Hastings, CEO of Netflix, believed its impact would be just as massive. Called the Netflix Player, it would allow most of his company's regular DVD-by-mail subscribers to stream unlimited movies and TV shows from Netflix's library directly to their television—at no extra charge.

The potential was enormous: Although Netflix initially could offer only about 10,000 titles, Hastings planned to one day deliver the entire recorded output of Hollywood, instantly and in high definition, to any screen, anywhere. Like many tech romantics, he had harbored visions of using the Internet to rout around cable companies and network programmers for years. Even back when he formed Netflix in 1997, Hastings predicted a day when he would deliver video over the Net rather than through the mail. (There was a reason he called the company Netflix and not, say, DVDs by Mail.) Now, in mid-December 2007, the launch of the player was just weeks away. Promotional ads were being shot, and internal beta testers were thrilled.

by Larry Dignan

Time Warner and YouTube said Wednesday that they have signed an online video distribution deal.

Under the pact, YouTube will distribute Time Warner short-form video content, including movie clips, television shows, and news.

by John P. Falcone




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By Tim Conneally | Published July 6, 2009, 3:15 PM

Today marks the beginning of ABC's arrival on Hulu. Last April, Disney's ABC Enterprises jumped aboard NBC Universal and News Corp's increasingly popular video syndication site, and this morning, the first ABC program was rolled out for streaming.

The first ABC show available on Hulu is the drama "Grey's Anatomy," of which five episodes have been posted. For the next two weeks, more content will be added, including episodes of the network's biggest hits like "Desperate Housewives" and "Scrubs." A month before Disney and ABC arrived at a deal with Hulu, the network agreed to first bring its content to YouTube, where it would supply clips of popular shows and short-form episodic content equipped with "different monetization options" than standard YouTube videos.

Spotted here

by Caroline McCarthy

It's here, sort of. Several months after the big announcement that content from Disney's ABC Entertainment division would be coming to Hulu, the entertainment conglomerate's shows have started arriving.

By John C Abell

Disney has reached a deal with Hulu to buy a nearly 30 percent stake in the red-hot video service and put full episodes of ABC shows on the site, the Wall Street Journal is reporting (subscription).

Under the terms of the arrangement, Disney would pump “a similar amount” of capital and marketing funds as NBC and News Corp., which started the venture in March last year with an initial investment of about $100 million, the WSJ reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Spotted here

by Greg Sandoval

At the same time Sony Pictures prepared to post some of its TV shows and films onto YouTube, the studio's material quietly began disappearing from Joost.

Earlier this month, Joost CEO Mike Volpi, who is attempting to engineer a comeback for the once high-flying company, wrote on the company's blog that Sony Pictures' shows were removed but was vague about why.

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By Tim Conneally | Published April 10, 2009, 5:48 PM

Another day, another arbitrarily-named video service.

Though Vevo is a name that could very easily be lost among the likes of Veoh and TiVo, the soon-to-be launched music video site has backers that are far from forgettable: Google and Vivendi, or, more specifically, YouTube and Universal Music Group.

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I assume "Using the Internet" means downloading (such as torrent) and then watching rather than streaming.

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What B.I.T. has wrought is a compression technology that takes a wholly different approach to squeezing pictures and sounds and sending them back to screens, according to Sean Wrought, the company’s chief technology officer.

by Dawn Kawamoto

As Americans tuned into their computers during December, the number of online videos viewed jumped 13 percent over the previous month, according to a report released Wednesday by comScore.

In the U.S., viewers watched 14.3 billion online videos in December. That translates into nearly 150 million users watching an average of 96 videos each, comScore noted in its report.


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Source: Steven Musil

Americans appear to be getting more comfortable watching videos online--and Google is the clear winner.

Internet users in the U.S.

By Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews

Fraught by competition from YouTube and Hulu, video start-up Joost is abandoning its P2P-enabled Windows and Mac client software in favor of a strictly Flash-based Web site for showing movies and TV.

Online video portal Joost has announced that, starting tomorrow, its Windows and Macintosh software clients will stop working.

Written by Liz Gannes

This has been the year TV networks finally embraced the web. As 2008 wraps up, nearly every broadcaster posts its shows online within half a day of first airing them on TV.

By Stuart Miller -- Multichannel News, 11/24/2008 9:42:00 AM

Live streaming of sporting events on the Internet is providing new opportunities for fans as well as networks, leagues, Internet providers and even advertisers. But the platform also faces some challenges, in terms of rights issues and differing business models.

All the main BBC television networks will be streamed online for the first time with the addition of the two main channels this week. Officially it is part of a 12-month trial, although it seems likely to become a permanent service.

By Liz Gannes
November 17, 2008: 02:34 PM ET


Some 76 percent of consumers watch video on their PC, says a new international study from IBM (IBM). That’s up 27 percent from last year, according to IBM’s second-annual survey of consumers in Australia, Germany, India, Japan, the UK and the U.S.

By Jessi Hempel, writer


Saturday Night Live isn't the only brand boosted by Tina Fey's Sarah Palin routines. If you're one of the millions who's watched those skits online within a week of their original broadcast, chances are you've seen them at Hulu.com.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
FoxNews article

MTV Networks/Geffen Records


Guns N' Roses' 'Welcome to the Jungle' music video on MTVMusic.com.
MTV's decided to fight fire with fire.