ABC Expands Digital News Network

[Suhit Gupta]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.com.com/ABC+to+expand+digital+news+network/2100-1038_3-5654895.html?tag=nefd.top' target='_blank'>http://news.com.com/ABC+to+expand+digital+news+network/2100-1038_3-5654895.html?tag=nefd.top</a><br /><br /></div><i>"ABC News on Monday said it would launch an expanded suite of video news products that will be available on the Internet, wireless devices, and someday, maybe even on cable television. Now, all the network has to do is find someone actually willing to put it on television. ABC's ambitious plan takes the unusual approach of making its programming available to new media outlets even before it completes a plan to get it on TV. ABC is a unit of the Walt Disney... The product is known as ABC News Now and will be offered in both a traditional "linear" format, like the regular TV news, and in some cases as an on-demand platform where users can see the reports they want in any order."</i><br /><br />ABC News Now is apparently already available to about 30 million homes through the Internet on America Online, Comcast, Yahoo and SBC. I haven't seen it yet because I am using Time Warner's Road Runner, but it would be nice to know how it works. It is also already available on wireless devices through deals with MobiTV, GoTV and SmartVideo.

[KC]

The ABC News feeds are great on Comcast except their using Real Player instead of Windows Media. The feed takes a minute or so to load but the quality of the video is very good. When you click on Full Screen it opens a large window that still has a smaller video box, probably 640 x 480, not really full screen but the video quality stays very good. I would much rather have Windows Media, the full screen is awesome.