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Today, the British television network, BBC, launched its online television service (known as iPlayer), which will be competing with similar offerings that have already been available from Channel 4 and ITV. The service will not allow viewers to save programs, but instead will utilize a temporary-viewing period. Users will have a period of no longer than 30 days to view programming, after which the video content will be automatically deleted. Expect copy-protection solutions to be thrown into the mix too.
Initially, [...]

There are those of us old enough to remember a time when music was sold mainly in album form, and your media choices were limited to vinyl or cassette. When you wanted your friends to hear something new you'd gotten, you either went over to your friend's house with albums in tow or held a phone up to your speakers. That was the original peer-to-peer music sharing.
In this age of new media and social networking, we download our music and [...]

Well, I was waiting for someone to hit the long ball and it looks like a company called Akimbo just smacked one into the parking lot. Yesterday Akimbo announced that they will release an Internet based video on demand service sometime next week.
The Beta release will support Windows XP and Vista based PC's and the RCA Akimbo player. Consumers of Akimbo services will be able to download Akimbo and access thousands of videos including full length movies, short subjects, [...]

(Reuters) January 16, 2007 - According to this news release via Yahoo! News, Netflix is offering its long awaited instant movie delivery service online. The service allows users to view nearly 1000 movies and TV shows on their PC's at no additional charge. The new product is scheduled to be demonstrated by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings at the National Retail Federation convention in New York. Netflix will be receiving an award today for their innovation in retail business. Hastings said [...]