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It’s an impressive development.
We all know about Open Source software. Now, BitTorrent is producing TV shows for free download via torrent sites. It’s perfectly legal and, from what I have seen so far, it looks very promising.
I watched the first episode of Pioneer One, a sci-fi show that actually has some good production values and [...]

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CBS Corp., Time Warner, Inc. and several other media companies will participate in a Web-TV trial with cable operator Comcast Corp. later this month. Their aim is to make more TV shows available online, but only for subscribers of Comcast’s cable service. The idea here is to preserve a [...]

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Following its recent deals for full-length content with Sony Pictures, CBS, MGM, Lionsgate, Starz and the BBC, YouTube has made new deals that will add longer content to the popular video sharing site.
The agreements will bring the 90-minute environmental film Home to the site in English, French, German and Spanish and [...]

Amazon’s IMDb wants in on the streaming-video business in a big way: founder Col Needham said the company, which dominates the movie-database business, wants to be able to give users one-click access to the 1.3 million titles in its index.

Of course, that’s a mammoth task—Needham said it was a goal for 2009 “and beyond,” per [...]

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TV.com, a unit of CBS Corp., said Thursday that it has begun beta testing a high-definition video gallery that allows users to watch ad-supported repurposed network programming online in 1080p resolution.
Supported by Adobe System’s Flash platform, the 1080p video gallery (www.tv.com/1080p) will augment the site’s current HD gallery, photos, news, interactive forum [...]

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Over the past 20 years, there’s been much speculation about what the convergence of computers and TV would ultimately look like. Paul Graham says that we now know the answer: computers.
“Convergence” is turning out to essentially be “replacement.” Why did TV lose? Graham identifies four forces: 1. The Internet’s open platform fosters [...]

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Update: CBS (NYSE: CBS) says that Hulu pulled its videos from the site. A spokeswoman said the video JV didn’t give a reason. No response yet from Hulu.
Original: So TV.com’s relaunch as a possible competitor to Hulu may not be sitting right with the News Corp-NBCU joint venture after all. The CBS-owned [...]

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Giving rival Web TV portals a run for their money, TV.com posted a 263% increase in unique viewers in January, according to new data from Nielsen VideoCensus.To boot, during that month, the CBS-owned destination for full-length video recorded a 1,261% increase in streams, and a 4,435% increase in minutes viewed.
Internet TV streaming [...]

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It might seem like they’ve come full circle, but the movie injection method has gone from TV to mail to online download to
TV on demand. Netflix and LG are betting it’s going to be a hit.
They’re also betting you will want to buy yet another device for your home theater. A Wall Street Journal article [...]