Internet TV comes into focus

“In 10 years, there will be a monitor on the wall in the family room. It will be connected to a box, and I’m going to watch programs on demand over the Internet,” says Internet strategist and investor Richard Wolpert.

The Internet makes it possible to profitably reach smaller audiences with niche programming.

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Long-form video gaining viewers on the web

The web is still the preferred source for short video clips of 3 to 5 minutes but recent statistics provided by Move networks show that people are using the web more to watch longer videos than ever before.

· So far in November, more than 100,000 new individuals are watching long-form video (anything 20 minutes or over) online each day, twice as many as in August.

· In November, the average session length is more than 50 minutes.

· In October 2007, more than 6 million people watched long form streaming video online.

· Since March 2007, Move has streamed almost 50 million hours of television.

Move networks powers the media players and back-end streaming infrastructure for ABC, ESPN360, Fox On-Demand, and the Discovery Channel

Via Techcrunch

Getting internettv into the main living room is a big deal

The title of this post is the last line of an article by Liz Gannes on NewTeevee, The article mentions talks between Joost and DivX. All of the latest news that i have received , some of which through non-public channels, seems to point in a direction where the founders of Joost are looking for a quick “sell and cash strategy”. There was a time where i saw a benefit and future in Joost but i believe a whole of a lot more in an open tv platform like the one i mentioned on a slide in a presentation i gave at the IEEE Benelux chapter and WIC Wintermeeting at Eindhoven University on January 19th 2007

I have been working on a cool project in this space and i’ll be able to open it up in the coming days as we are getting it ready for invite-only release but i’m sure some of you will like it, i hope