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We still see no evidence that our subscribers cut cords at a greater rate than the population.”

least one recent survey, whi

Cable companies like Comcast insist that they don’t see evidence of it. But Ivan Seidenberg, who runs cable competitor Verizon, says it’s inevitable.

A2BTV monthly for the data up-link and to host my Slingbox, and I pay Direct TV for the subscription package I have chosen

2BTV give a guaranteed 2mb uplink for the money I am paying them

ot a US Skypeout number and a US shipping address from a mailbox company,

a company offering Slingbox hosting.

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My Slingbox is hosted with a company that offers slingbox hosting. I use them because they can support my high bandwidth (upload) needs so I can stream my video steadily.

e worth a mention is FlipTube, the

www.americantv2go.com.

Some analysts question whether VoD can be as profitable as broadcast TV. The dual costs of piping internet video into the home and licensing content from producers - both paid out on a per-view basis - "may call into question the level of profits that can be made in the long term" from VoD, says David Cockram of Oliver & Ohlbaum, a media consultancy. "More people are taking more of the pie."

Broadcasters already have to pay companies providing "content delivery networks" to ensure their on-demand programming reaches viewers in good quality and without loading-time delays mid-video. Every time a programme is viewed online through their VoD services, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and other broadcasters pay a CDN provider such as Akamai, Level 3 or, soon, BT.

Today, one half-hour programme costs between 2p and 5p to stream through a CDN every time it is viewed. That may not sound much, but with the BBC iPlayer serving up almost 60m TV shows in November, a broadcaster's CDN costs could already exceed £1m a month.

switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solution

the company says its chips are used in the majority of DVB-H mobile

EU is close to mandating the technology as a preferred standard. DiBcom

able operators in contrast have continued to churn record numbers of basic subs having lost 700,000 subscribers in Q3 and 760,780 in Q

e companies have been losing half a million subscriber

During the same period, cable operators kept moving their existing analog customers to high-ARPU digital packages at healthy rate

13 percent are "very likely" to cut the cord in the next 18 months

pple TV, Google TV and connected TVs are added to the equation, that number tickles 20 percent. A

erosion in pay-TV subscribers

joint targeted advertising solution for multichannel video operators in North America.

two companies are integrating SeaChange’s AdPulse

BlackArrow’s Advanced Advertising System t

sed $60 million in capital, was over $100 million.

Movie stores like Vudu’s also compete directly with the video-on-demand services of the cable companies,

They are making a bet on connected devices.”

UDU is a revolutionary service, built into a growing number of broadband-ready TVs and Blu-ray

VUDU, based in Santa Clara, Calif., will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Walmart.

company is not disclosing financial terms of the agreement as the acquisition is not material to its first quarter earnings for fiscal year 2011.

Roku has raised $24 million from Wood, Netflix and Menlo.

he company is devising revenue-sharing agreements for developers who can sell subscriptions on the service or charge per product like Amazon.com.

says Apple iTunes accounts for 64.5% of all sales

Apple's market share is slipping: it accounted for nearly three-quarters ( 74.4%) of all online movie sales in 2009. Its competitors are taking a few bites here and there: Microsoft has increased its market share from 11.6% to 17.9%. It offers titles via the X-Box 360 and Microsoft Zune. Sony, which sells movies online through the PlayStation 3 player and select Sony Bravia HDTVs, has gone from 5.7 % to 7.2% in 2010. The rest of the bunch accounts collectively for 10.4% of the market, up from 8.3% in 2009--and that includes Wal-Mart's Vudu se

iSuppli said online movie sales increased 60%in 2010, but the company did not release actual sales numbers

Walmart has used its retail power and influence to get Vudu installed on a range of new devices that it would normally not have had access to, such as Sony’s PlayStati

es: the new Apple TV has no hard disc

in the US, digital rental transactions rose more than 50 per cent in 2010 to 38m, compared with 25m transactions in 2009.

VUDU, Inc., acquired by Wal-Mart in March 2010

VUDU began by only making their own set-top boxes, (the VUDU Box and the VUDU XL), but it now primarily markets its softwar

April, 2007 VUDU had received $21 million in venture capital funding from Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital.[5] As of April, 2008 they have raised $40 million more.

gion will exceed 115mn by 201