Winding Up 'VOD in a Box'.(Comcast Media Center and C-COR to offer video on demand service to small operators)
Multichannel News, February, 2007 by Spangler, Todd
By Todd Spangler Turnkey Service To Give Small Ops On-Demand Play Want to offer video on demand but can't afford to hire another guy to run it? You may be in luck: Comcast Media Center and C-COR are teaming up to provide small operators what they're claiming is a fully managed, turnkey video-on-demand service that includes up to 1,000 hours of programming per month.
The duo's "VOD in a Box service," aimed at operators with fewer than 25,000 customers, uses C-COR's n5C scaled-down video server with content encoded and aggregated by Comcast Media Center, a Denver-based unit of the cable company. "We want to minimize the capital and operating costs of offering VOD, to help small operators grow their business and put them in the same...
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