Category Archives: Broadband

VUDU slashes price by $150 – now $250 for the box

Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 by MegaZone

A recent player in the Yet Another STB market, VUDU launched less that two months ago with a $399 price tag, but now they’ve cut the price to $249. I’d have to suspect that means early sales volumes were disappointing. … Continue reading →

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No surprise, Sony planning to bring audio and video downloads to PS3

Posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 by MegaZone

The Financial Times reported on Sony’s plans to bring audio and video downloads to the PlayStation Network: “We are building a software infrastructure to distribute video and music, more particularly video, through the PlayStation Network,” said Sir Howard Stringer, Sony … Continue reading →

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Blockbuster acquires Movielink

Posted on Thursday, August 9, 2007 by MegaZone

There has been a lot of speculation about Blockbuster getting into the movie download business, especially since NetFlix launched their ‘Watch Now’ streaming feature. While the majority of consumers still rent their movies in physical stores, rent-by-mail services, video-on-demand, and, … Continue reading →

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A look a Verizon FiOS TV 2.0

Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 by MegaZone

Dave Zatz over at Zatz Not Funny and Mari Silbey of Connected Home 2 Go (and ZNF) got some hands-on time with the new Verizon FiOS TV 2.0 platform. It looks pretty good, Dave has a ton of screen-shots in … Continue reading →

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Covad launches higher-speed DSL service – up to 15Mbps

Posted on Friday, June 1, 2007 by MegaZone

There is a war out there amongst broadband providers, to be the fastest pipe in town. Things have really changed over the past 10 years. Ten years ago I was working for Livingston Enterprises, an access server and router vendor … Continue reading →

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