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10/01/2004
Pants on Fire
When FCC chief Michael Powell last month let it slip that he’d seen TiVo and Netflix team up like the Wonder Twins on a movies-on-demand scheme (Cfax 9/16), the DVR maker was quick to tut-tut the notion. An earlier Newsweek story was met with similar denials. And just Wed, TiVo evp, worldwide ops David Courtney […]
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09/27/2004
Seeing Starz: New Wrinkles in Download Service
Starz Encore beefed up its online movie service, bringing the number of titles on offer to around 150 at any given time, up from 100. An all-you-can-eat, $12.95/month SVOD offering, Starz! Ticket on Real Movies has spruced up title accessibility, introducing a progressive download function that allows subs to begin viewing a movie after 15 […]
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09/21/2004
Symonds Says
They say Hell is lined with good intentions, some boulevards are paved with broken dreams and that a good idea and a quarter will get you a phone call. I say that’s crazy. If you can find a pay phone these days, it’ll cost you at least 35 cents. Which leads me to an idea […]
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09/16/2004
Future Gazing: IPTV High on Powell's Radar
If cable needed further proof of "barbarians at the gate" (a phrase borrowed from CableLabs COO Chris Lammers), FCC chmn Michael Powell provided it. "IPTV and video are going to start coming on very, very strong," Powell said Wed. The chmn said that in the last 6 months, IPTV is the #1 item being worked […]
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09/08/2004
Hooking Up?
TiVo and Netflix are said to be closing in on a deal that would enable subscribers to the popular DVDs-by-mail service to download movies directly to their PVRs. According to a story in the latest issue of Newsweek, the deal could be OK’d as early as this week. While neither side would comment on what […]
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07/21/2004
CableFOLKS
Josh Sapan is on a mission, and as president of Rainbow Media that mission is to make on-demand a business. But then again, that’s nothing new. He’s been at it for some time now. In the late nineties, when VOD was still nothing more than the bastard son of pay-per-view and interactive television, Sapan was […]