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TiVo: Cable is strangling our business with SDV
TiVo filed a cri de coeur (PDF) this week with the FCC, saying that its entire business is at risk of being shut down by the cable industry. In contrast to VCRs, which were a “thriving and intensely competitive market” in the 1990s, TiVo is the “only major competitive entrant left standing” in the DVR world. That’s no accident, says the company, and it’s not the result of natural market forces.
Continue reading »Vuze, Amazon and Google support FCC net neutrality rules
Vuze ’s CEO Gilles Bianrosa joined 26 other CEOs and execs from new media companies like Google, Amazon and Skype today to support the FCC’s upcoming net neutrality rules in an open letter to commission chairman Julius Genachowski . The letter reads in part: “We believe a process that results in common sense baseline rules is critical to ensuring that the Internet remains a key engine of economic growth, innovation, and global competitiveness. (…) America’s leadership in the technology space has been due, in large part, to the open Internet.
Continue reading »The Internet is about to die. Literally die!
In 2007, Nemertes Research released a dire report on Internet traffic. By 2010, it said, the “exponential” growth in demand for bandwidth will butt up against the “linear” investment in networking technology, and that whole Internet thing you’ve come to know and love will start experiencing “brownouts or snow days, during which performance will (seemingly inexplicably) degrade.” By mid-2009, this certainly seemed implausible. Millions of people now stream Netflix on-demand video to their computers and TV sets, YouTube has added high-quality options to its videos, and Hulu’s launch showed that ad-supported Web video could be hugely popular.
Continue reading »Video Helps Grow CDN Market, But Long-term Outlook Uncertain
Online video has significantly contributed to the growth of the market for content-delivery networks, two new research reports show, but it’s unclear how much the industry as a whole will benefit from this trend going forward. The worldwide value of CDN services is estimated to reach more than $2 billion in 2011, In-Stat reported today. That’s up from $1.25 billion in 2008.
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