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Everyone who follows Internet video or Google knows that YouTube loses money. Now, thanks to Multichannel News , we know that Credit Suisse analysts Spencer Wang and Kenneth Sena”estimate that YouTube’s total bandwidth costs in 2009 will be close to $300 million.” Ouch. Maybe, Google really is trying to make a deal with the movie studios [...] According to Multichannel News . Starz Media’s animation production outfit Film Roman is teaming with Rob Zombie to premiere the movie producer/rock singer’s new animated film The Haunted World of El Superbeasto on select video-on-platforms Sept. 7, a week prior to movie’s theatrical debut. More > Alfred Poor is reporting that “Google is negotiating with Hollywood studios for deals to offer streaming movie rentals on YouTube.” We’re not talking the older films that are already available, we’re talking new movies coming out on YouTube the same day as they appear on DVD. Interesting times ahead! More > I find myself agreeing with Thomas Umstead of Multichannel News that Roku, by adding Major League Baseball, is “quickly becoming a key player in the home entertainment industry and a formidable competitor to cable, satellite and telco companies..” Why? Read on. More > This came as no surprise to those of us who’s been following the attempts to let users make legal backups of their DVDs, but now the word has come down and Rob Pegoraro of The Washington Post has the details. Pegoraro writes, “Over the past two days, two different commercial DVD-copying programs have gotten shot [...] It wasn’t that long ago that the only thing reason anyone ‘watched’ anything on the Internet was, as the song title says, the “Internet is for Porn.” That was then. This is now. According to the Pew Internet Survey, Internet TV watchers has almost doubled since 2006. Google quietly announced yesterday that it was buying On2 Technologies. For $106.5 million dollars, Google gets On2, a leading developer of video compression, publishing and encoding technology. Could Google be getting poised to jump into Internet TV? The answer is yes, according to Christina Tynan-Wood at InfoWorld. She explains how the price tag on cable service drove her to an Internet TV work-around. Her solution is to use a combination of basic cable and TiVo and a Roku media-extender, Amazon Video on Demand and Netflix to get all the entertainment she and [...] |
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