From: Beet.TV on Fri, May 15 2009 11:16 PM

NEW YORK — Boxee, a free software download which allows users to connect computers  to television sets, bypassing a cable box, has 500,000 users in the U.S. I sat down with CEO Avner Ronen earlier this week  at the Streaming Media East conference where he was a keynote speaker. As...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Apr 22 2009 7:09 AM

LAS VEGAS --- In an effort to deliver the same experience for HD online video streams for consumers with different bandwidth connections, the industry is embracing a technology called "adaptive streaming."   Here at the annual NAB conference, Microsoft released its product called Smooth Streami...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Apr 20 2009 3:05 PM

thePlatform, the white label video services company owned by Comcast, has announced it is has new customer in 4Kids.TV. Seems like the Seattle-based company has made something of specialty in streaming online video content for kids.  The company says that 8 percent of its streams is for...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Jan 26 2009 2:47 PM

Audi, as the exclusive sponsor of the live webcast of the Obama Inauguration on CBSNews.com, MSNBC.com, ABCNews.com and the WashingtonPost.com, had expected 30 million views of its pre-roll advertisement titled "Progress."  Beet.TV has been told by a spokesperson for Audi USA that its pre-roll ad...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Nov 20 2008 9:49 AM

Many of the experimental advertising budgets for online video are "now gone" as a result of the fiscal crisis, says Dina Kaplan, co-founder of Blip.tv. I caught up with her yesterday at the "Future of Television" conference in Manhattan where she was a panelist. Moving beyond the the experimenta...