IPTV —
Just under a year ago, I wrote about IPTV company, Joost, closing a susbtantial $45M round of VC funding led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures (I also wrote about them a month later) At that time, I was dubious that the timing of the venture was right, and because of that I was unclear [...]
Over the weekend, I was talking with a friend about the increasing popularity of downloading TV shows and movies. The main point I was making was that the companies that create the great shows seem totally unable to supply their content such that people can watch what they want, when they want. [...]
I’ve written before about internet television - so-called IPTV. My previous posts have been about the technology for delivering traditional “big media” TV shows over the Net, e.g. via P2P. However, there’s actually something more interesting happening in the IPTV space - and that’s the new breed of TV shows made exclusively for [...]