TOSHIBA is planning to retire the HD DVD format. Reuters reports that the company is in the final stages of planning its exit from the high-def disc market, handing Blu-ray the role of industry standard. The move comes just days after Wal-Mart ended support for HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray. MTV NETWORKS has acquired BABUNGA ...
Zucker – Next.TV – Ratings – Landmark – Yahoo – MediaBytes January 30, 2008
on 1.30.08
JEFF ZUCKER delivered the NATPE keynote yesterday, warning that the television industry is undergoing a "forest fire." He discussed his decision to reduce pilot season and possibly curtail upfront expenditures as necessary steps toward "making less waste." Zucker's goal is to make NBC everywhere - from NBC.com to Hulu and ...
CES 2008 – Comcast – Cisco – EchoStar – Panasonic – Paramount – MediaBytes 01.08.2008
on 1.8.08
COMCAST CEO Brian Roberts will deliver this morning's CES keynote and reveal a plan to increase on-demand titles from 1,300 to 6,000. Roberts will also discuss the company's plans for Fancast.com, a guide to video that helps users find content online and offline. Fancast will let users search for any content in any format. ...
Viacom – Microsoft – Hulu – Nielsen – Invidi – P&G – MediaBytes 12.20.2007
on 12.20.07
VIACOM and MICROSOFT have signed an extensive multi-platform partnership. Viacom content will be distributed on Xbox Live and MSN with the two companies splitting revenue. Microsoft will sell and serve display advertising for Viacom sites and purchase advertising on Viacom's TV and web properties. Lastly, Viacom will ...
Nielsen – Adobe – Hulu – Sprint – FCC – Nokia – MediaBytes 12.05.2007
on 12.5.07
NIELSEN has partnered with DIGIMARC to create a service that both watermarks and fingerprints digital content, allowing it to be tracked across the web. Fingerprinting will be done by matching the audio track of a video to known content in the Nielsen database while watermarking will embed content information (such as when ...
MediaBytes 11.12.2007
on 11.12.07
NBC has launched NBC Direct, a service that allows consumers to download NBC content. Users can subscribe to shows and have them automatically download when new episodes become available. However, they must watch them within 48 hours of downloading. NBC Direct has some other major drawbacks: it requires a proprietary ...
MediaBytes 10.23.2007
on 10.23.07
NBC confirmed the pulling of all official NBC content from YouTube ahead of the Hulu launch. The company believes that pulling the content will help push more traffic to the forthcoming online video service. Hulu will host NBC videos and distribute them through Yahoo, AOL, MySpace and other video destinations. However, it ...
MediaBytes 10.22.2007
on 10.22.07
COMCAST is drawing heat for allegedly inhibiting access to BitTorrent. The Associated Press claims that the provider "actively interferes" with P2P file-sharing services to reduce network traffic. Comcast denies the claim, saying they do not block access to any sites, applications or services. However a nation-wide test ...
MediaBytes 09.13.2007
on 9.13.07
HULU will acquire MOJITI, a Beijing-based startup. Mojiti allows users to annotate videos, leaving comments at specific points for others to see. Its technology will be used extensively on Hulu.com, the joint online venture of News Corp. and NBC Universal. The deal is estimated to be worth $10 million. MYSPACE has signed a ...
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