In addition, it will provide video distribution technology from its thePlatform subsidiary, which it acquired last year.
PPTV is powered by the online video company's proprietary video distribution technology, PPCloud, which it says combines computing and peercasting algorithms capable of supporting millions of co-current viewers for live and high quality videos.
"This case is not about stifling new video distribution technologies, but about stopping a company from violating our copyrights and redistributing our television programming without permission or compensation," the media firms said in a statement last year.
The owners added, "This case is not about stifling new video distribution technologies, but about stopping a company from violating our copyrights and redistributing our television programming without permission or compensation".
NeuLion, a provider of live and on-demand content for the web, has bought DivX LLC, a provider of digital video distribution technologies in a cash and stock deal worth at least $62.5 million.
Unruly, a social video distribution platform whose technology helped power viral campaigns like Evian's Roller Babies and Old Spice's "Man Your Man Could Smell Like", just released its results for the fiscal year ending on March 31.
At home, big brands and publishers like ESPN, Victoria's Secret, Rolling Stone, Dell and North Face are using Ooyala's technology to power video distribution and management.
Anthony Bontrager, 1CAST's chief executive and a veteran video technology entrepreneur, says news organizations are happy to experiment with new video distribution systems because viewing habits have changed.
Redbox's low price, however, is less a reflection of a permanently superior distribution technology than of Hollywood's reluctance to fully embrace alternatives to discs, like video-on-demand.
Blinkx, the video search engine, is getting into video distribution.
Or, using Blip's distribution technology, better control the whole distribution chain.
