The delivery of television content to desk-tops, over the internet, on demand, has the potential to dramatically change how users consume content and how this content is produced and distributed. It will place significant new demands on broadband network deployment and performance, and could revolutionise business models in advertising.
Warner Brothers Entertainment will release its films online in South Korea before they are released in the country on DVD, in a major break from the established Hollywood distribution model which could lead to a big increase in movie downloads. The film studio, which is part of Time Warner, has targeted South Korea because it has very high broadband penetration. It hopes that releasing films online first will cut down on the very high levels of DVD piracy in South Korea.
Sarita Jones, 15 October 2008
The recently-released Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast projects that global IP traffic will grow at a combined annual growth (CAGR) of 46% from 2007-2012, nearly doubling every two years. This will result in an annual bandwidth demand on the world's IP networks of approximately 522...
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Sarita Jones, 22 September 2008
It was only a matter of time before Amazon added content delivery to its range of web services, which include the S3 storage service and EC2 on-demand computing. Amazon has just announced its intention to offer a content delivery service that could transform the industry and pose a serious...
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Michelle Wong, 18 September 2008
A consortium of Bain Capital, Blackstone and NBC Universal has acquired The Weather Channel for about $3.2bn, beating Time Warner in a private auction after Landmark Communications put The Weather Channel and some other media properties up for sale.
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Michelle Wong, 09 July 2008
The Walt Disney Company's Asian subsidiary The Walt Disney Company (Southeast Asia) Pte. Ltd. has increased its strategic investment in UTV, India's only integrated media and entertainment company with content creation abilities across platforms and genres. With this investment, Disney will be...
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Sarita Jones, 11 June 2008