Archive for the 'VOD' Category

Blue Glow: First impressions of the Roku Netflix Player

Posted by Chris Holland on June 9th, 2008

Over on my film & tech blog, Blue Glow, I posted my first impressions of the Netflix Roku box, which allows you to watch movies as streaming video directly to your television. Boxes like these will play a large part in how we watch movies in the coming years. Indie filmmakers would do well to [...]

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Netflix makes ‘the last 10 feet’ leap

Posted by hyams on May 21st, 2008

One of the key reasons we all don’t have 100 megabit broadband connections to our homes is what is known in the telco industry as the last mile. The last mile is the gap between the fat, fiber-optic network pipe that runs through every city and your home.
In the digital entertainment world, the big [...]

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Indiewire: Webolution or Wild Unknown: Digital Rights in Indiewood 3.0

Posted by hyams on March 30th, 2008

Anthony Kaufman of Indiewire wrote a great story today on indie digital rights. I was pretty pleased to be included in the story in the company of folks like Liesl Copland of Netflix, Robert Nathan of Cinetic, Jason Janego of Magnolia, and Lisa Schwartz of IFC.
Most people agree that digital distribution will become the [...]

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