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Moonlight 2 arrives and falls flat on its face

The other day, Novell’s Mono Project, announced the beta release of Moonlight 2. IN theory, this enables Linux users to watch Microsoft Silverlight encoded content. Of course, that begs the question: “What Silverlight content?”

Moonlight 2 beta sounds great. Novell states that it’s the equivalent of Microsoft Silverlight 2 and that it “gives users a platform [...]

Online Video goes Mainstream

It wasn’t that long ago that the only thing reason anyone ‘watched’ anything on the Internet was, as the song title says, the “Internet is for Porn.” That was then. This is now. According to the Pew Internet Survey, Internet TV watchers has almost doubled since 2006.

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Is Google getting into the Internet TV biz?

Google quietly announced yesterday that it was buying On2 Technologies. For $106.5 million dollars, Google gets On2, a leading developer of video compression, publishing and encoding technology. Could Google be getting poised to jump into Internet TV?

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HD DVD Strikes Back

It may sound like a bad movie title, but HD DVD, after being kicked to the side of the road by Blu-Ray is striking back. .

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TiVo and VoD grow closer

TiVo, easily my favorite DVR brand and Internet-based VoD (Video on Demand) are growing closer. In 2010, RCN Corp., a telecom and datacom provider in the Midwest and Northeast US will be offering co-branded, HD TiVo DVRs that will integrate RCN’s programming and Video on Demand (VoD) library with Internet delivered VoD and video programming.

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