On-demand services offered by cable and satellite companies and by other vendors on the Internet.
Broadcasters and cable TV providers including Sky, Virgin and BT are also increasingly offering on-demand services.
The fight over employee benefits when it comes to app-based on-demand services continues.
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And you can send audio from any application, such as a streaming music service or video-on-demand services like Hulu or Netflix.
Research firm GartnerG2 suggests that, even by 2005, only 2% of movie revenues will come from on-demand services via the internet.
Both NBC and CBS will move popular programs to video-on-demand services.
Harmonic makes and sells high-performance products designed to deliver the next generation of broadcast and on-demand services such as high-definition television (HDTV) and video on demand.
Until now consumers have been restricted to renting HD movies from on-demand services, including VUDU's library of over 1, 400 HD movies, the largest HD library in the world.
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They are cutting cords with the cable companies and signing up for on-demand services such as Hulu and Netflix, or buying shows and movies through Amazon or Apple.
At the same time, the firm's projections suggest that sales growth in physical formats for home video will peter out by 2015 amid growing consumer interest in on-demand services.
Roughly 53 million homes have access to video-on-demand with the average consumer spending more than 8.5 hours using on-demand services and watching more than 17 titles a month, according to Rentrak, a research group.
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Additionally, Harmonic provides software products that allow customers to control and visually monitor their digital video infrastructure at an aggregate level, as well as solutions for high-quality digital storage of real-time broadcasts for on-demand services.
It also has a few deals with the makers of set-top boxes to power the software that runs TV guides and on-demand services over the internet and this too could be a way to spread Silverlight usage.
Mobile-driven on-demand services will become standard practice.
Comcast unveils high-definition TV and video-on-demand services.
Salesforce.com provides on-demand services for customer-relationship management.
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"The industry has evolved so that TV Everywhere and subscription video on-demand services can coexist with the appropriate windowing strategy, while allowing for more content flexibility to meet consumer demand in the changing digital landscape, " said Deborah K. Bradley, senior vice president of program acquisitions for Turner Broadcasting.
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It also offers application performance services, on-demand managed services and business performance management services via its EdgePlatform technological platform.
NetJets Inc. also offers aircraft management, charter management, and on-demand charter services through its subsidiary, Executive Jet Management.
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Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services.
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Now the big chains are getting kicked around, thanks to video-on-demand technology, online-delivery services like Netflix and "sell-through" pricing straight to consumers.
The first is that expectations for on-demand products and services in the consumer world are spilling over into other sectors, including government.
He expressed little concern about the more ominous threat from on-demand film rental services from the likes of cable giants Comcast and Time Warner, however.
Maybe, but only if Walmart can figure out a killer pricing model and achieve a level of ubiquity that other paid, on-demand Web video services have not.
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As more enterprises shut down their in-house data centers and turn to on-demand storage and computing services delivered via the Internet, their storage needs become more variable and less predictable.
On hand in Verizon's room were a quintet from the "PMS Crew, " an all-girl (or is it grrrrl?) team of professional video-gamers showing off the company's Fios-fueled on-demand gaming and Arcade services.
Time Warner is the second largest cable-TV operator in the U.S. Through its networks AOL can begin to offer high-speed "broadband" services such as video-on-demand and music sales over the Web to a mass market.
The home entertainment market will be revolutionized by DSL's delivery of movies-on-demand, long-distance telephony, interactive gaming and other enhanced services.
An all-digital network would create space for lucrative services like phone service, video-on-demand and high-speed Internet.
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