Category: VOD

  • Driverless – The VOD of Today?

    It was an honor to be on the Smart Driving Car podcast with Cade Metz, Fred Fishkin, and Alain Kornhauser for a thoughtful discussion of what makes driverless different than an Internet app. Inspired by Metz’s recent New York Times article, The Costly Pursuit of Self Driving Cars Continues On and On and On, the…

  • OTT to TV for the Independents: a BroadbandVision Show Report

    OTT to TV for the Independents: a BroadbandVision Show Report

    The BroadbandVision 2014 show was held in Las Vegas last week. While smaller than the TelcoTV show that used to be held for a similar audience until last year, the BroadbandVision show was nonetheless fairly well attended and continued the tradition of being a wealth of good information. One much discussed topic was Over-The-Top Television (OTT TV) and…

  • OTT movies equal VOD with more gardens to pick from

    OTT movies equal VOD with more gardens to pick from

    Sometimes I think about keeping thoughts to myself as they often conflict with what people want to hear or contradict what they believe and then I feel bad and then it happens and then the cycle repeats So here we are at the refresh of another cycle. I’m about to feel bad. Over-the-top progressed faster…

  • VOD Provider, Demand Video, Ceasing Operations

    VOD Provider, Demand Video, Ceasing Operations

    VIDEO ON DEMAND PROVIDER, DEMANDVIDEO, CEASING OPERATIONS Sunnyvale, CA (April 30, 2001) DemandVideo, a privately held company providing Video on Demand (VOD) services for the cable television industry, announced today that “adverse market conditions” had forced it to cease operations, effective immediately. The company, founded in September 1998, was headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. That office…