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March 23rd, 2007

Fox and NBC Readying Online Video Site

No wonder Fox and NBC are not suing YouTube. They want to attract YouTubers to their upcoming video site.
News Corp. and NBC Universal said today that they were creating an online video site stocked with TV shows and movies, plus clips that users can modify and share with friends.
The two companies enlisted help from some […]

By Mike Abundo -- 4 comments

March 14th, 2007

Google Unconcerned by Viacom’s Billion-Dollar Lawsuit

Even before receiving a copy of Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit, Google has released a response.
In typical Google fashion, they don’t give a shit.
We have not received the lawsuit but are confident that YouTube has respected the legal rights of copyright holders and believe the courts will agree. YouTube is great for users and offers real […]

By Mike Abundo -- 4 comments

March 13th, 2007

Viacom Sues Google for a Billion Dollars

Not satisfied with pulling their clips off YouTube (Twice. Indiscriminately.), Viacom is now suing YouTube owner Google for one billion dollars. That’s over half the price Google bought YouTube for, at 1.65 billion dollars.
Of course, we all know this flamboyant ten-figure gesture is just another impatiently greedy negotiating tactic for Viacom to pull in an […]

By Mike Abundo -- 28 comments

March 2nd, 2007

New NBC Chief Slams YouTube

First day on the job, and he’s already being an idiot.
Jeff Zucker, on his first day as chief executive of NBC Universal, came out swinging at YouTube, accusing the online video site of failing to deploy its technology to protect the copyrighted materials of traditional media companies.
“YouTube needs to prove that it will implement its […]

By Mike Abundo -- 8 comments

February 14th, 2007

Building a Better Mousetrap a.k.a. Media Player

Working in the office all day, music is an integral part of the working environment. My business partner and I have one of the computers connected directly to the stereo via a line-in jack so we can really enjoy the audio quality of the songs over significant speakers.
We regularly use iTunes, Windows Media Player, Yahoo! […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

February 7th, 2007

TiVo Users Soon Able to Enjoy Amazon Unbox

The blogosphere is moderately abuzz with the news that Amazon and TiVo have partnered to allow Amazon Unbox users to view their videos on their network connected TiVo boxes.
I saw the original story on the TiVo Blog website.
Any broadband connected TiVo Series2 and Series3 DVR will be able to download and play Unbox videos. Sorry, […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

January 15th, 2007

Yahoo Ditches Go TV and Changes to MyChannel

After reading my previous post about TiVo and Comcast getting their groove on, you may have forgotten about the online media company that partnered with TiVo previously, yep Yahoo!
Yahoo! was the first online media company (if I remember correctly) that integrated nicely with TiVo to provide both content and the ability to schedule TiVo recordings […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

January 14th, 2007

TiVo Powered Comcast Motorola DVR

 
Lot’s of news from CES over the last few days, but the thing that excites me maybe the most is that the TiVo powered Comcast DVR isn’t too far away. We’ll see how soon I can get my hands on it here in the Indianapolis market. You can be sure I’ll let you know about […]

By Jason -- 1 comment

January 11th, 2007

Update: TiVo and Comcast Photos

The PVR Blog now has some camera phone pics of the TiVo/Comcast interface.

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January 11th, 2007

TiVo and Comcast at CES 2007

This is some news that makes me extremely happy. The iPhone didn’t do it for me. I could really care less about a cellphone honestly, I need it to dial people’s numbers, if it synchronizes with my existing Outlook address book, all the better.
But this…this….TiVo and Comcast announcing their TiVo powered cable company DVR is […]

By Jason -- 0 comments