The BBC Trust has refused permission for the BBC to introduce its own local video service to cover local events in 60 parts of the UK, arguing that it wouldn’t be beneficial enough for the public and that it would have a “negative impact on commercial media”.
Sir Michael Lyons, Chairman of the BBC Trust, said: “It is clear from the evidence that, although licence fee payers want better regional and local services from the BBC, this proposal is unlikely to achieve what they want.
YouTube will soon sell spaces on its search results pages to advertisers, yet another in its series of attempts to monetize its hugely popular service. This will enable anyone with a video available on the service to promote it on search results pages. More after the clip…
Posted by Jonny on November 12th, 2008 under Apple, News, Opinion
Apple’s “hobby” the Apple TV has a chance at becoming a ubiquitous household item, though the company may need to add support for non-Apple media services and implement many new features if it seriously intends making an iPod-level impact on this important growing market.
The reason Apple has the chance is visible in the growing momentum behind development of solutions to bring online video to the front room - a sector becoming quickly more intense.
Online video on-demand services such as iTunes or Hulu are hot properties, meaning many more devices - including TVs offering features similar to the Apple TV - should begin to reach market en masse starting next year. And even if Apple does not develop such solutions there will still be winners and losers in the race to offer the ‘iPod’ equivalent of the multimedia for the front room box.
Sky will launch its subscription TV service via its online Sky Player platform meaning UK and Irish customers will be able subscribe to watch a package of channels from Sky on their PC or Mac without the need to install a TV-based service as well.
World-class film resource library IMDb.com has launched a German language version of its website, www.imdb.de, promising to open up in more languages in future.
Like its parent site IMDb.com, IMDb.de offers information about 1.3 million titles, including 35,000 German titles and 2.7 million celebrities.
Warner Bros has moved to combat rampant piracy in China with its blessing of a new video-on-demand service in the country in form of making new release films available legitimately online.
The joint announcement was made by Marc Gareton, Executive Vice President, International, Warner Bros. Digital Distribution and Shao Yiding, CEO of Union Voole Technology in China.
Warner Bros.’ new release movies, including some that have never been released theatrically in China, will be available to Chinese consumers to rent on VOD to their PCs via Voole.com at a price of between 4 and 7 Rmb per title.
Posted by Jonny on November 3rd, 2008 under Apple, News
Linus and Charlie Brown videos have been made available for free through iTunes USA, courtesy of Warner Digital.
The first two episodes of Warner Premiere’s Peanuts Motion Comics - the first fully animated motion comic from Warner Premiere are being made available. Peanuts is the first fully animated series in the Warner Premiere Motion Comics digital content category.
In these free episodes, Linus runs for class president with Charlie Brown as his running mate.
MTV has agreed a deal that will let its videos be uploaded and made available through the MySpace social network in the US.
The partners will enable advertising opportunities within audience-uploaded videos across MySpace, with tech firm Auditude providing technology for advertising to be inserted across a suite of MTV Networks’ most popular video content uploaded to MySpace, including clips from MTV and Comedy Central, among others.
Posted by Jonny on October 30th, 2008 under Apple, News
UK TV broadcaster E4 has signed-up to offer its shows through the iTunes Store in the UK, spearheading the introduction with the offering of hit TV show, ‘Dead Set’, through the service.
‘Dead Set’ is a gripping five-part zombie horror series set in a fictional Big Brother house house and written by acclaimed penman, Charlie Brooker. If you’ve missed it, it has been shown every night this week and is set to come to an end tomorrow night.
Also available from E4 through the iTunes service, ‘Fonejacker’, ‘Skins’ and new six-part comedy, the ‘In-Betweeners’.
Posted by Jonny on October 28th, 2008 under Apple, News
Beginning today, Disney-ABC Domestic Television is offering US viewers an extended preview of its highly-anticipated epic fantasy series “Legend of the Seeker” before its November 1st premiere weekend.
The network is offering a sneak preview of the nationally-syndicated series as a free download, making this exclusively available through iTunes.
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