20 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC Trust is asking for people's opinions about the BBC's proposed on-demand services - If you have a strong opinion either way, you should probably express it to them.
Jon Hicks : BBC Trust - On-demand Services' consultation - Fellow Brits – please tale time to fill in the BBC consultation survey. Don’t let them deliver a restrictive Microsoft only solution!
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20 month ago
plasticbag : Ofcom are throwing a wobbly at the BBC's download plans and this is one time I'm very definitely on the BBC's side - We have to face it, the role of the 'broadcaster' in the distribution of television is on the decline as other methods come into play. Radio's safe. TV's changing and on demand will get larger. Hobbling the BBC in this area is the kiss of death to the org
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23 month ago
plasticbag : Channel 'five' in the UK is doing downloads of some of its core TV shows - You get to keep them and watch them for fourteen days after broadcast and you have to pay for them, and you have to use IE6 on a PC. But other than that, it's pretty impressive. I'll give it a few months until iTunes starts selling TV in the UK...
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24 month ago
plasticbag : Amazon.com Unbox Video - Amazon have launched their first on-demand TV download service and have called it Amazon Unbox. It only works in the US and it only works on Windows XP. Not sure what I think about it.
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27 month ago
plasticbag : According to the BBC, 24 and Buffy are the latest TV shows to be offered for download - "Films and TV shows such as the first series of 24 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer are to be offered for download."
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28 month ago
Linkorama : Hello "On Demand" hype machine - SaaS gets rebranded
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29 month ago
plasticbag : ABC.com's full episode streaming allows you to watch TV shows online for free - Obviously the model is advertising funded. It's a pretty sweet angle because they can stop people skipping adverts. I don't think it's the model that 'wins', but it should sit nicely as one of the two or three along with season pass downloads...
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42 month ago
plasticbag : The Project for Open Source Media - "POSM (The Project for Open Source Media) is an independent research and development entity for the development and deployment of a standardized Open Media Platform."
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plasticbag : UK users are responsible for 18% of all the peer-to-peer shared and BitTorrented TV show downloads - Obviously they're doing it because of the sometimes enormous time-lag between a show being broadcast in the States and in the UK. There's one way to fix that straightaway...
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45 month ago
Andy Baio : Videora, the BitTorrent RSS reader - with "Season Passes" and "Wishlists" [via] [via]
Rod Begbie : Videora - BitTorrent RSS Reader - A pretty looking app, which does the same thing as the Azureus RSS plugin. [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : Videora - BitTorrent RSS Reader - Videora - BitTorrent RSS Reader: watch what you want, when you want, from anywhere in the world
plasticbag : Videora combines RSS with BitTorrent to create a download-based PVR equivalent - Mooted a lot last year, very interesting stuff, windows-only which kind of sucks, apparently no better than the RSS plug-in for Azureus...
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46 month ago
plasticbag : Media Guardian on the listening figures for the BBC's RadioPlayer - According to Simon Nelson, controller of radio and music interactive at the BBC, the figures are an indication of the fact that internet listening, and particularly catch-up listening via the Radio Player software, has "gone mainstream".
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plasticbag : The official UK download chart is throwing up some surprise hits - I think the most interesting part of this article is not that Marillion are near the top of the downloads chart, but that they've been financing their albums by getting donations and pre-sales off the web. Future mainstream model here?
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