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NewTeeVee (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
CDNetworks Partners with Octoshape; two companies say they can deliver live hybrid P2P-assisted streaming to millions of concurrent viewers. (release) Roku Sold 100,000 Units? Dan Rayburn estimates that 1 percent of Netflix’s subscribers bought the little streaming box. (Streaming Media Blog) The Possibilities of an Apple TV App Store; Saul Hansell predicts that, with Xbox opening up [...]
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Hacking NetFlix (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Dan Rayburn on The Business of Online Video reports that Roku has sold almost 100,000 Netflix Players. Since publication of the article, I've now learned that the accurate number of units sold is closer to 100,000. While it surprised me the number was that high, it does seem possible, as that would equal about 1% of Netflix's 8.2 million customers. Considering the price point ($99) and the fact...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Dan Rayburn submits: In an article I wrote for GigaOm.com Tuesday entitled " Content Offerings Only Reach a Few Million TVs ", I broke down of the number of non-PC related products like the XBOX 360, Roku, PS3, TiVo Series 3 and VUDU devices that are really capable of getting movies and other online video content. For my sales estimate of the Netflix player by Roku , (NFLX) I estimated that...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dan Rayburn submits: While the news and media tend to focus mostly on consumer facing content because it is cool and sexy, the enterprise market continues to have very strong growth and demand for IP based video products and services. Webcasting platforms, capture cards, hardware encoders and content management systems, amongst others products, are still being bought and deployed across all...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Dan Rayburn submits: Last week, numerous sites were reporting that Amazon (AMZN) would be storing and delivering the movies for its newly announced video on demand service from the Amazon cloud computing infrastructure. As of now, Amazon is not storing or using any of its cloud computing infrastructure to store or deliver any of the movies and Amazon has confirmed that its Web Services group...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Dan Rayburn submits: Over the past few months, there has been a lot of speculation on what Amazon (AMZN) might be working on in regards to its EC2 and S3 service and whether or not its AWS offering is going to compete with content delivery networks. Adding to the confusion was the fact that Jeff Bezos made a brief announcement of a new upcoming streaming service but was scant on details. Amazon's...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Dan Rayburn submits: TiVo (TIVO) and YouTube (GOOG) announced a deal on Thursday that brings YouTube content available to TiVo Series 3 customers. While it's good to see TiVo add more content to its box, something I think it has been severely dragging its feet on , unfortunately it won't have any major impact for either company since it is only available for TiVo customers with a Series 3 box...
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SeekingAlpha Telecom Stocks (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Dan Rayburn submits: On Tuesday, BT (BT) announced that it would spend roughly $US 3 billion to roll out a new fiber based broadband service capable of supporting up to 100Mbps with the goal of making it available to 10 million homes by 2012. Similar to AT&T's (T) UVerse service, in most cases the BT fiber will link directly to the street cabinet, called FTTC (fiber-to-the-cabinet), and will...
