Roster Expands For March Madness VOD Highlights Package

The NCAA March Madness Highlights package, an assemblage of CBS Sports, the collegiate sports administrative organization and the cable network, also includes “NCAA March Madness Memories,” a collection of 25 archival vignettes, highlighting great tourney games past.

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Online Video Traffic Surges Massively In The UK | YouTube, BBC iPlayer Market Leaders

With most of the big players in the Web TV and streaming video industry being based in North America, read Google, YouTube, MySpace, Yahoo!, it's ...

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Sony strikes deal with SK Telecom

Sony Pictures Television Intl. has struck a deal with Korea's SK Telecom to deliver full-length, video-on-demand movies to mobile phones, believed to be the world's first such deal for Hollywood pics.

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Denver Post: Interactive politics on demand

From daily poll questions users can answer with their remotes to video-on-demand content that will feature highlights from the Democratic and Republican conventions this summer, interactive-TV applications are playing a role in the presidential elections.

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Hallmark Channel Study: Generation Gap in TV-Technology Use

According to a study commissioned by Hallmark Channel and conducted by market-research firm Millward Brown, there is a generational gap when it comes to the use of TV technology such as digital-video recorders, video-on-demand and broadband video.

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Featured Article: Case Study: Speeding Video Delivery to the Filipino Diaspora

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Japan Portal opens to Internet VOD

TOKYO -- TV Portal Service, a digital TV provider backed by Sony, Sony Communication Network, Matsushita, Sharp, Toshiba and Hitachi, will launch video on demand this September.

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VOD services get new releases when they're still new

Cable operators are experimenting with video-on-demand services that get new releases to subscribers at the same time they're available in video rental stores.

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Home entertainment revenue offsets theatrical decline for Lions Gate

Home video revenues edged up to $528.3 million compared to $527.2 million the previous year. Leading performers for the year included Saw III, Crank, Employee of the Month and Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion. Library revenues were up 21% to $256 million for the year.

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Examiner: Cablevision Significantly Expands Availability of Free Video On Demand With New Titles From Discovery Networks

Cablevision Significantly Expands Availability of Free Video On Demand With New Titles From Discovery Networks, BETHPAGE, N.Y., Feb. 12

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