Kontiki's Product Roadmap and its Work on "Sky by Broadband"

"Earlier this week, UK satellite TV provider, BSkyB, officially launched its long-awaited, PC-based broadband VOD service, "Sky by Broadband." The service--which features content from Sky Movies and Sky Sports, and which appears designed to help Sky meet the competitive threat posed by the VOD services offered by UK cable operators, ntl and Telewest, and by the HomeChoice IPTV platform ... --currently offers over 200 full-length movies (Sky says that it will eventually offer over 1,000 movies) and over 1,000 sports videoclips. It is available free of charge to Sky customers who subscribe to two or more premium channels: Sky World subscribers can access both the service's movies and its sports content; Sky Movies 1 and 2 subscribers can access its movies only; and Sky Sports 1 and 2 customers can access its sports content only.  ¶  The new service is powered by peer-to-peer "grid delivery" technology from Sunnyvale, California-based Kontiki. ... Tracy Swedlow recently spoke to Scott Sahadi, Kontiki's VP of business development, about his company's work on Sky by Broadband, about its product roadmap (which includes support for the delivery of live events and integration with IP set-top boxes), and more. ..."  Link:  ITVT.   Swedlow published an earlier interview with Sahadi back in October (link:  ITVT).  Kontiki is also powering Open Media Network, with which I'm associated as chair of the Public Service Publisher Initiative. --Dennis