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Video on demand coming from NTL, Telewest
News UK telecommunications company NTL has announced that it will start to roll out Video On Demand (VOD) services over its cable network by mid-2000. VOD will replace NVOD (Near Video On Demand), which at present provides customers with the choice of...
[September 22, 1999, 14:59]
On-Demand Segmentation and Proxy Buffer Provisioning for Scalable and Interactive Video Streaming Scheme
White Papers This paper proposes an on demand segmentation mechanism for scalable and interactive streaming systems. Dividing a video into many segments and caching a certain amount of prefix data at the proxy from these segments, one prefix from each segment...
[May 31, 2007, 1:00]
Redefining IPTV With the Sun Streaming System: Video-on-Demand (VoD) and Network Personal Video Recording (nPVR) for an Open Systems World
White Papers Home video in all of its forms is now a large and growing business, and Video on Demand (VoD), networked Personal Video Recorders (nPVR), and interactive video services can offer considerable convenience and tailored services in an already strong...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Akamai Helps Leading Real-Estate Company Ensure 90% Adoption Rate of On-Demand Video Content, While Increasing Agent Count by 27%
White Papers The company later added live, instructor-led training and other content and in 2005 decided to evolve its model to provide agents with direct access to on-demand video classes through a new section of its site called KW Connect.
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
Korea Telecom Delivers Video On Demand
White Papers Korea Telecom (KT), a leading broadband service provider in Korea, planned to roll out one of the nation's first Video On Demand (VOD) to over five million Internet broadband subscribers. Since this was the first service of its kind that seamlessly...
[August 10, 2007, 11:14]
Service Provider Launches World's First High Definition Video on Demand Distribution Service Using Hitachi Ipv6 Multicast Solution
White Papers One of the major Internet Service Providers (ISP) in Japan launched the world's first IPv6 IP TV high definition Video-on-Demand (VoD) commercial service on July 2004. Content Provider "A" wanted to roll out a new high-definition broadband Video-on...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
An Optimal Broadcasting Protocol for Mobile Video-on-Demand
White Papers The advance of wireless and mobile technology introduces a new type of Video-On-Demand (VOD) systems, namely the mobile VOD systems that provide VOD services to mobile clients. It is a challenge to design broadcasting protocols for such systems...
[August 13, 2007, 15:14]
Hollywood shuts down video-on-demand site
News Tehran-based Film88.com registered its Web site in April, and the company had briefly operated a video-on-demand site renting a long list of Hollywood hits such as "Star Wars" for viewing on PCs. Film88 is at least the second Internet video-on...
[June 7, 2002, 8:44]
How Cisco Uses Live Broadcasts and Video on Demand to Save Cost of Onsite Meetings
White Papers The live broadcast and a stored Video on Demand (VoD) module were produced by the Cisco Media Network team. The solution was an IP-based, live video broadcast from the emerging markets group's leadership team.
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
News Burst: NTL to launch UK Video On Demand service
News NTL has signed an agreement to use US company DIVA's VOD service, currently deployed in six US cable systems. Initially the VOD service will be delivered to digital set-top boxes over NTL's national cable network.
[September 22, 1999, 9:36]
Video on Demand Over IP
White Papers Such access enables the distribution and delivery of digital content, such as streaming radio and streaming video on the broadband connected PC. While the analysis of end-user consumption schemes shows a strong match between the quality of...
[October 6, 2006, 1:00]
Video Architectures - Eyes on the Future: The Benefits of Wireless Technology for Fixed Video Surveillance
White Papers Wireless broadband solutions also provide an attractive lower total cost of ownership for the network operator, as equipment can be rapidly deployed to meet immediate demand. Wireless broadband infrastructure provides rapid deployment of reliable...
[August 4, 2009, 0:00]
BT sees low demand for video among SMEs
News Demand for videoconferencing capabilities from BT's small-business customers will continue to be low for now, a senior executive at the telco has told ZDNet.co.uk. However, Lindsay said that despite the fact BT does offer videoconferencing...
[September 5, 2007, 13:49]
BT picks Microsoft platform for IPTV
News BT has announced it will use Microsoft's TV IPTV Edition software platform to deliver video-on-demand over broadband in the UK. BT said on Wednesday it plans to offer a combination of over-the-air Freeview broadcast with a broadband video-on-demand...
[June 29, 2005, 12:40]
Intel: You ought to be in pictures
News The chip giant Intel and application service provider POPcast Communications, Monday jointly launched POPcaster, an on-demand video picture book service. In conjunction with the increasing demand for digital cameras, we think that users will want...
[June 13, 2000, 9:38]
TV without frontiers, lawmakers in tears
News Question: In an age of YouTube, on-demand programming and DIY video, how do you define and regulate television? But in an era of TV on demand, the EC wants to extend the reach of the legislation to cover "online audio-visual content" which includes...
[July 11, 2006, 15:35]
MovieLink expected to use MPEG-4
News MovieLink, a joint venture among five major movie studios, is expected to launch its Internet video-on-demand service later this year using MPEG-4 technology, a studio executive familiar with the plans said on Monday.
[April 9, 2002, 11:15]
Video demand helps Cisco profits soar
News Cable operators have been upgrading their networks to deliver high-definition TV and video-on-demand services. Giancarlo also said Cisco has been anticipating increased bandwidth demand created from more video on the network for the past four or...
[February 7, 2007, 8:27]
Delivering Local Content Over IP Networks: VODxchange Content Creation System
White Papers The advent of time-shifted TV and Video On Demand (VOD) have increased user expectations for being able to view more content on their own schedules. Service providers representing different multi-channel programming delivery systems (satellite...
[August 15, 2009, 1:20]
A Peer-to-Peer On-Demand Streaming Service and Its Performance Evaluation
White Papers Providing on-demand video streaming service over the Internet is a challenging task. This paper proposes DirectStream, a directory based peer-to-peer video streaming service that efficiently and cost-effectively provides video on-demand service...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
