New digital cable services like video-on-demand and high-speed Internet are catching on.
As Yuen sees it, TV Guide Interactive is essential for maneuvering through digital television, with its hundreds of channels, Internet access and video-on-demand.
An all-digital network would create space for lucrative services like phone service, video-on-demand and high-speed Internet.
Others say fixed-line operators, especially those that have a strong fiber optic backbone in place, are better bets because they are players in the broadband services game -- offering pay TV, video-on-demand, home shopping and banking as well high-speed Internet access.
The cable companies' superior technology allows them to offer interactive content and video-on-demand as well as a regular phone service and high-speed internet access.
Android operating system and includes video-on-demand, traditional-TV and Internet applications.
Such services include broadband Internet access, telephony and on-demand video, and they help differentiate cable from its somewhat less expensive rival, satellite TV.
Instead, consumers are increasingly turning to the already popular disc-rental option, while consuming more and more on-demand video through both their pay-TV subscriptions and Internet-based subscription services like Netflix, Adams noted.
FORBES: With Home Entertainment Sales Spiraling Downward, Movie Studios Turn to UltraViolet
Usage of all "non-linear" formats, such as Internet, DVDs, and video on demand, in addition to DVRs, accounts currently for one-third of mass-market TV viewing, but as much as 57% for "early adopters, " those future-defining viewers who have a greater propensity to use leading-edge products and services.
ENGADGET: Research affirms that DVR owners do indeed blaze by commercials
In the Fourth Quarter of 2009, EPIX will launch its next-generation premium entertainment channel, video on demand and Internet service that combines new and classic feature films and original programming, including series, music and comedy specials.
ENGADGET: Verizon to offer Epix movie channel / streaming service on FiOS, VCast
Well, to be honest we don't know, since we won't know proper details until they're announced (presumably all will be revealed tomorrow), but IPTV generally refers to live and on-demand video that's streamed, rather than downloaded, over an internet connection.
应用推荐