My bet is that within a year, either/both Limelight Networks and VitalStream will be acquired.
The former provides nearly all the bandwidth and hosting for MySpace (which is red-hot right now with 70 million users,) while the latter hosts Flash video streaming, especially, for large media companies (ABC, to name one).
Oh, and in similar fashion to ABC's announcement that it will now stream past episodes of a few of its most-popular shows, Fox follows suit.
When will CBS and NBC do ad-supported broadcasting--first-run or reruns--of its shows? That remains an interesting question to be answered...
And no, I don't care about $1.99/episode on iTunes. That's an expensive price for something which is already ad-supported on broadcast...
Posted by stephend at April 13, 2006 11:41 PM