Nor, for that matter, either Hewlett-Packard, which has a high-quality business video conferencing service called Halo, nor Cisco, which last year bought Tandberg to extend its telepresence business.
Virtualization, cloud, the consumerization of IT, and finally the onset of high definition business video are all major drivers that are going to create gaps in the market that will allow start ups to find their 10x.
While Netflix (NFLX) gets most of the headlines, one of the most remarkable developments in the video rental business over the last few years has been the amazing growth of Redbox , the video rental kiosk business run by Coinstar (CSTR), a company that used to be known for its coin-counting machines.
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Expanded Universes are big business for video games.
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Because the core of their business is video and what if all of a sudden, Yahoo or Google starts providing, or somebody else we've never heard of, starts providing I Dream of Jeannie over the web?
For example, someone who loves video equipment decides to start a business to do video production.
The company has been in the on-demand video business for a while now and has witnessed significant success in terms of video consumption.
Cisco Systems (CSCO) this morning announced a multi-part plan to revamp its consumer business, including shutting down the Flip video camera business.
Its latest divestments will not happen immediately - its audio business will pass to Funai in the latter half of this year, while the transfer of its video business will not take place until 2017.
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The Video business will transfer in 2017, related to existing intellectual property licensing arrangements.
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But, big as the streaming-video business became for Netflix, its potential was even greater.
In 2005, Kyncl volunteered to look into the business of streaming video.
Chambers insisted the overall video business was "gaining momentum, " yet sales of Cisco's TV set-top boxes were off 29% from a year before.
The specific segment of the market being discussed is video and on the docket to testify is a who's who of the video business.
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This last move has drawn opposition from unlikely sources, including Google, which may not want its own online-video business to fall under FCC regulation.
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Well despite the hype surrounding the streaming video business, it would seem that the market has been taking an increasingly sceptical view over the past year.
Coinstar, which has lost more than 20 percent of its value over the last six months, was expected to be a powerful player in the streaming video business.
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Comcast and other cable operators are increasingly focusing on broadband, where profit margins tend to be higher than the video business because they aren't burdened by high television programming costs.
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However following a botched attempt to split its DVD and streaming video business last year, and the build-up of rival businesses by companies with larger brands and more financial power, the future for Netflix now seems far from certain.
"Sony has been committed to high resolution music since its inception, ' noted Charles Speidel, vice president of Sony Electronics Home Audio Video business, "The R-series of loudspeakers are designed to recreate music as faithfully as possible, delivering an unparalleled listening experience for those devotees who truly care about music.
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ZoomTilt is a video creation platform where a business can pitch an idea for video content and ZoomTilt has a panel of judges that chose which concept moves forward.
The report places the blame on "patchy network coverage, limited channel lineup, poor video quality, excessive prices and a penchant among high-end phone users for business handsets rather than video phones, " and we'd certainly have a tough time disagreeing.
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Overall, growth at Comcast's broadband, business services and advertising divisions in the second quarter helped offset more modest revenue gains at the cable distributor's video subscription business.
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It is, therefore, imperative that those with a business model based on providing streaming video services over the Internet re-think their business models and sit down with the network providers to try to come up with plans that will ensure their success as well as help the providers to be able to deliver the content.
Microsoft got into the video game business to capture some of the growing market.
They likely will continue to slug it out in the business of renting digital video discs.
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