On Monday, September 27, the TVS Boxing.Net advertising supported IPTV channel will switch from a Video on Demand channel to a 24/7 streaming boxing channel. The channel will be the first to feature a full time presentation of classic and current boxing matches.

Professional matches will include classic and current championship fights as well as other outstanding television fights from the past 60 years. Gillette Friday Night Fights, Pabst Wednesday Night Fights, Dumont Network Fights, Mizlou Network Fights, the Muriel Cigar Sunday Night Fights, Video Techniques Championship Fights, TelePrompTer Championship Fights, Boxing from the Olympic, the original TNT Network Championship Fights, Katz Television Network Fights, and TVS Television Network fights will all be featured on the channel.

The number of people who watch broadcast TV programming on the Internet has doubled in the last year, according to a new survey by Altman Vilandrie & Company and Peanut Labs. Despite this growth, clear opportunities exist for cable and satellite providers to grow through smart integration of new technologies like mobile and 3D video, the study found.

"While the study shows the rumblings of seismic shift in consumer video preferences, there are clear opportunities for cable and satellite providers to differentiate versus online video alternatives," said Altman Vilandrie & Company Director Jonathan Hurd, who oversaw the research and analysis. "Providers that can be nimble in adopting mobile video, 3D and other innovations will stem potential defections, especially among younger consumers."

EPIX and Netflix announce an agreement through which Netflix members can instantly watch an array of new releases and library titles from EPIX streamed over the Internet from Netflix. Movies from the multi-year deal will begin streaming from Netflix on September 1 and include movies from Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM.

EPIX has subscription pay TV rights to new releases and movies from the libraries of its partners and will make these movies available to Netflix 90 days after their premium pay TV and subscription on demand debuts. Historically, the rights to distribute these films are pre-sold to pay TV for as long as nine years after their theatrical release.

The Professional Bowlers Association and NeuLion announce a new online video streaming service available for America's number one recreational sport -- bowling.

The new digital service will continue under the Xtra Frame brand, but will take advantage of NeuLion's industry leadership in sports video delivery. Bowling fans will enjoy a new online experience that offers enhancements in video quality plus interactive features that give fans a chance to follow the sport more closely through pause and rewind of live streams, highlights, chat and exclusive content 24/7.

Top Rank and NeuLion announce a new digital service available for boxing fans around the world. The Las Vegas-based Top Rank stands as the world's foremost boxing promotions company and provider of related content. For nearly half a century Top Rank has presented some of the sport's all-time greats. In working with NeuLion, Top Rank brings its fans an all-new website and branded video portal with multi-lingual support, an iPhone App and a mobile web site.

theChanner is debuting the first-ever social mobile TV tuner giving viewers access to music channels available on the Internet. The free mobile app lets you discover and enjoy the best music programmed by Internet TV channels around the globe, and share discoveries with your social networks. Be the first to find that breakthrough videoclip and tell your friends!

UITStor announces its new UEBO consumer electronics line has partnered with PlayOn, a service from Internet TV service provider MediaMall Technologies. The partnership will bring a number of Internet TV channels and video content services to the TVs of UEBO customers via a simple, convenient TV remote control interface.

With the UEBO M200 Media Player, available summer 2010, consumers can play nearly every popular media file format via their TVs and HDTVs with no time-consuming transcoding needed. In addition to allowing you to play and view all of your audio, digital and video files, the media player provides easy access to Internet content including real-time weather, news, Picasa and Flickr content as well as Internet radio stations via Shoutcast. The device even provides PC-Less BitTorrent downloading capabilities to avoid having to leave your PC on or having your PC infested with viruses that sometimes come with the downloaded file. A network-attached storage functionality allows for sharing of content over home networks.

Wowza Media Systems announces that SIDSA has integrated its highly touted digital TV products portfolio with Wowza Media Server 2 to extend the reach of customers' digital content to new Internet and mobile audiences.

SIDSA, whose global customers include Spain's Telefonica, RTVE, and Axion, Italy's RAI, Russia's OTB, and many others, achieved proven interoperability between Wowza Media Server 2 and its EtherTV gateways and Karina encoders. The SIDSA EtherTV gateway introduces digital broadcasting services directly into LAN environments to distribute live broadcast TV and radio across IP networks, and the Karina is a real-time encoder purpose-built for digital and IPTV systems.

Widevine announces support for Dolby Digital Plus in its video optimization and digital rights management platform to bring the movie theater-like experience directly to the living room via the Internet.

Dolby Digital Plus is a versatile, scalable digital audio coding technology that extends the capabilities of Dolby Digital, delivering up to 7.1 channels of surround sound. It supports a wide range of bit rates to ensure optimized sound quality and efficiency to match available bandwidth. It also enables advanced applications such as multiple-program support and audio stream mixing.

Clearleap and Roku announce a partnership that will bring consumers volumes of premium television content-- from movie libraries of major studios to popular programs traditionally limited to pay TV services. The arrangement will leverage Clearleap's cloud-based universal video platform for content management and service delivery, giving pay TV operators and premium programmers a seamless opportunity to offer content and generate additional revenues with a branded Channel on the Roku player.

Clearleap’s platform will enable paid VOD transactions to post directly through viewer’s pay TV subscription information, allowing Roku users to consume free or pay VOD titles congruent with their subscription package, with transactions posting as part of their monthly TV service bill.

Envivio announces that TTNET has added a new dimension to its customer offerings by deploying multiple Envivio Three Screens video encoders to launch a new Web TV service. The new service, integrated by Envivio's system integration partner Birtel based in Ankara, enables TTNET to offer live TV channels and on-demand services to subscribers over the Internet for viewing on their computers and Wi-Fi enabled devices.

DreamTV announces that the company has launched their premium content which is now available thru Roku, an over-the-top Internet video streaming device manufacturer. The new premium content includes new categories such as Action Sports and Classic TV Shows, all for a subscription price as low as $1.70 per month. Along with the premium content viewers will continue to enjoy current shows on the DreamTV channel.

"DreamTV is excited to have made our premium content available to our viewers at such an affordable price," said Hari Mahesh, Founder of DreamTV. "Viewers have been anxiously awaiting the availability of this expanded content and we will continually refresh our line-up of shows moving forward."

WD introduces the WD TV Live Plus HD media player, which makes it easy for Netflix members to instantly watch thousands of TV episodes and movies on the biggest screen in their home -- their HD television set. The new Netflix interface enables members to browse and add movies to their instant Queue on the Netflix Website right from their TV.

In addition to Netflix, the WD TV Live Plus HD media player also enables users to stream personalized Internet content from YouTube, Flickr, Pandora, Live365, as well as the MediaFly network which includes daily podcasts from CNN, NBC, MTV, ESPN and other online content providers. Unlike most other Netflix-capable devices, the WD TV Live Plus HD media player also lets consumers enjoy a broad variety of the digital media they already own, creating a unified entertainment experience.

Orb Networks announces an update to its Orb software that enables users to placeshift internet TV content from their PC to connected devices like the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android phone. Just in time for the South Africa soccer event, fans can catch their country's teams playing for glory. With a 10 to 12-hour time difference between the continental U.S. and South Africa, many North American-based fans will find it difficult to watch live matches during regular daytime hours at home on TV. The Orb Live application for iPhone and Android will allow fans to enjoy games in real time from the palm of their hand.

The World Cup will be watched online by nearly a third of British football fans, more than in any other World Cup, according to a study released today by PC World. The retailer questioned over 3,000 Brits in the run up to the World Cup following a surge in sales of its wireless networking and video streaming gadgets. Feedback revealed that:

• 30% of fans, which equates to over 14 million of those expected to watch the World Cup live, are planning on doing so over the internet.
• Nearly a quarter (23%) revealed they would be using laptops or desktop PCs.
• One in ten (10%) expect to follow the action using a smart phone such as a BlackBerry.