News tagged with video on demand


Amazon launches HD movie rental, TV show sales

Technology / Internet

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. said Tuesday it is adding high-definition video to its on-demand service, offering consumers the ability to rent movies and purchase television episodes shown in HD.


Hulu.com lets you legally watch premium video content

Technology / Internet

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Most of us don't watch television the way we did just a few short years ago. Back then, we had to watch TV shows when they were aired, a slave to the broadcasting schedule whim of the networks.





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Study to see if video games can boost thinking skills in elderly

Study to see if video games can boost thinking skills in elderly

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study whether and how video games can boost ...


Cable TV companies mull impact of online video

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Cable TV operators have treaded gingerly with online video. The companies want to meet consumer demand for watching shows on the Internet. But they don't want cable TV to lose its place as the home's main entertainment ...


Fujitsu Develops New Technology that Ensures Authenticity of Digital Video Clips

Fujitsu Develops New Technology that Ensures Authenticity of Digital Video Clips

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 03, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Fujitsu Laboratories announced today the development of the world's first technology that makes it possible to ensure that digital video data recorded over long time periods and then stored and managed in ...


Blockbuster to stream video rentals on Samsung TVs

Technology / Business

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Having been a step behind in the race to pipe entertainment from the Internet to television screens, struggling video rental-chain Blockbuster Inc. is counting on a new partnership with Samsung Electronics America ...


The new Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) are packed and ready to go on sale after midnight in 2007 at the Sony Center in Berlin

Sony PS3 tops Nintendo Wii in Japan in March: survey

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sony has been given a vital boost in the battle for the multibillion-dollar video game industry, with a survey showing its PlayStation 3 outsold Nintendo's Wii in Japan for the first time in 16 months.


Univision programming will now be allowed on YouTube

Univision coming to YouTube

Technology / Internet

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

YouTube and Univision announced an agreement on Monday to bring short- and long-form programming from the Spanish-language broadcast network to the video-sharing site.


YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion in 2006

YouTube views over one billion a day: co-founder

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created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The number of video views a day on YouTube has surpassed one billion, the co-founder of the wildly popular video-sharing site said Friday on the third anniversary of its acquisition by Google.


Motorola Launches Advanced Multi-Format Encoding Platform for 1080P Content

Technology / Other

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Motorola today revealed its next generation encoding platform. This high-performance video processing platform supports both MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) encoding and transcoding and ...


Consumers view ads as necessary trade-off for Web 2.0

Technology / Internet

created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As more and more consumers use digital content services — such as social networking and videos — they're more willing to accept advertising if it means the services have no fee.


Blockbuster to sell, rent movies through TiVo

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created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Blockbuster Inc. plans to rent and sell its movies and TV shows through TiVo Inc.'s digital video recorders in the second half of this year.



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