More Articles By Todd Spangler of Multichannel News

• Comcast debuts Fancast to compete in video downloads
  SEPT. 5 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: Service offers more than 3,000 digital titles for rent or purchase More
  
• Survey: Americans can’t live without DVRs
  SEPT. 3 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: Second-most essential technology after mobile phone More
  
• DirecTV to offer TiVo HD service
  SEPT. 3 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: Also extends intellectual property licensing deal More
  
• Internet-to-TV company Akimbo shuts down
  MAY 29 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: Set-top firm closes doors after shifting business model More
  
• TiVo rents Disney flicks
  MAY 28 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: DVR maker to offer titles through CinemaNow More
  
• Comcast proposes 'P2P Bill of Rights'
  APRIL 16 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: Comcast is looking to further position itself as proactively—and responsibly—addressing the issue of managing peer-to-peer traffic that traverses its network, announcing Tuesday it will lead an industry-wide effort to create a “P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities” for users and Internet service providers. More
  
• Users: I want my Web TV
  MARCH 19 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: Even if it’s been years in coming, video on the Web seems to have become an overnight media sensation. More
  
• TiVo to tote YouTube to TVs
  MARCH 12 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: TiVo inked a deal with Google's YouTube that will let its digital video recorder customers watch soccer bloopers, Japanese music videos, something called "Vampire Robot Nazis Strike Back!" and thousands of other user-uploaded clips on their TVs. More
  
• Wal-Mart's digital chief heads to Apple
  FEB. 4 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: Kevin Swint, previously Wal-Mart Stores divisional manager for digital media, will join Apple this week as general manager of international video for iTunes. More
  
• Wal-Mart looking at net video do-over
  JAN. 14 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: Wal-Mart Stores, after shuttering its initial paid video-download service in December after less than a year in business, appears to be actively looking to restart a similar service on its own. More
  
• Online video startup Vuze pockets $20 million
  DEC. 20 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: Vuze, a startup that runs a peer-to-peer Internet video distribution service, said it has raised $20 million in third-round funding and named TiVo co-founder Mike Ramsay to its board of directors. More
  
• Mojo inks deal for Amazon Unbox
  NOV. 14 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS:  In Demand Networks’ male-targeted HD channel Mojo signed a deal to sell its original programming through Amazon.com’s Unbox digital video download service. More
  
• Lulu v. Hulu: Web publisher sues NBC/Fox venture
  SEPT. 6 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: Lulu, a privately held digital-media publishing firm, filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Hulu – the yet-to-be-launched Internet-video joint venture of NBC Universal and News Corp. – alleging trademark infringement, unfair and deceptive trade practices and cyberpiracy. More