What defunct American subscription service was VEU similar to?
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VEU VEU (Video Entertainment Unlimited) was an American subscription television channel owned by Golden West Broadcasting. The channel was similar to ONTV, another scrambled UHF service, and was carried by many stations including KAUT-TV in Oklahoma City, WVEU in Atlanta and KNBN in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The service began in 1980 and featured movies, sports and special events. The channel was discontinued in 1984.
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ONTV (pay TV) ONTV (later known as ON Subscription Television from 1983 until its shutdown in 1985) is a defunct American subscription television service that was owned by National Subscription Television, a joint venture between Oak Industries (a manufacturer of satellite and pay television decoders and equipment), Chartwell Enterprises (owned by Norman Lear) and media executive A. Jerrold Perenchio. Operating in such major markets as Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit, ONTV aired a broad mix of feature films from mainstream Hollywood blockbusters to pornographic films as well as sports events and specials.
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Ve Interactive Ve Global ("Ve"), formerly Ve Interactive, is a technology company based in London which has about 500 staff. Founded in 2009, it was bought out of administration for £2 million in 2017. In September 2017, Ve announced a £15 million investment from existing investors to strengthen its worldwide business.
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SunRocket SunRocket was a U.S.-based VoIP provider established in early 2004 by Joyce Dorris and Paul Erickson, former MCI executives. Sunrocket was one of several companies to offer an inexpensive telephone service that competed against the traditional phone companies by using a broadband Internet connection instead of a regular (or analog) phone line.
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Gamerang Gamerang is an American subscription-based online video game rental service that specializes in providing game titles for popular gaming platforms, including handheld game consoles and other mobile devices.
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Quantum Link Quantum Link (or Q-Link) was a U.S. and Canadian online service for Commodore 64 and 128 personal computers that operated from November 5, 1985, to November 1, 1995. It was operated by Quantum Computer Services of Vienna, Virginia. In October 1991 they changed the name to America Online, which continues to operate the AOL service for the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh today. Q-Link was a modified version of the PlayNET system, which Control Video Corporation (CVC, later renamed Quantum Computer Services) licensed.
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Windows Services for UNIX Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) is a discontinued software package produced by Microsoft which provided a Unix environment on Windows NT and some of its immediate successor operating-systems.
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Tsū (social network) Tsū was an online social networking service launched October 21, 2014. Tsū was created by Evacuation Complete, LLC, a Texas corporation, which was founded on February 7, 2008 by Sebastian Sobczak. Evacuation Complete's founder was Sebastian Sobczak who then partnered with cofounders Drew Ginsburg and Thibault Boullenger as first employees, and the site was headquartered in New York City. Similar to Facebook in its incipient stages, tsū was open by invitation only. The site went "dark" in August 2016.
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Vodium Vodium is a Washington, DC based company founded by Cameron Clarke and Keith Cich in June 2000 offering webcasting technology and services. In 2001 it introduced its flagship product, MediaPod Player, which integrated streaming audiovisual content with Powerpoint slides, graphics, images and text.
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Vuguru Vuguru is an American independent multi-platform studio founded by Michael Eisner's The Tornante Company in March 2006. The company has produced content including the web series "Prom Queen", "The Booth at the End", "Little Women Big Cars", "The All-for-Nots", and "Back on Topps". The company has signed content deals with AOL, HDNet, Yahoo!, Hulu, YouTube, Stan Lee's POW! Entertainment, and FremantleMedia. Its shows are distributed in over forty countries, on the Internet, mobile phones, and linear television platforms.
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Amazon Video Amazon Video is an Internet video on demand service that is developed, owned and operated by Amazon.com. It offers television shows and films for rent or purchase and as part of Amazon's Prime subscription, selected titles can be viewed exclusively to full Prime or Prime Video members, in which video membership allows viewing without full Prime. Like competitors, Amazon has pursued a number of exclusive content deals to differentiate its service, including a multi-year licensing deal with HBO in the United States.
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Vectone Mobile Vectone Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator which provides services in many European countries. They launched their service in September 2009, targeting people who wanted value UK pay as you go 'Sim Only' deals, and signed up 1 million users in the UK their first year. The current countries of presence are the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, France, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Portugal, Serbia and Austria. Vectone Mobile is operated by Mundio Mobile Ltd. In the UK the company is powered by the EE network, which is operated by T-Mobile and Orange.
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PlayStation Vue PlayStation Vue (PS Vue) is an American over-the-top (OTT) Internet television service that is owned by Sony. Launching with a limited major-market rollout on March 18, 2015, the service – which is structured in the style of a multichannel video programming distributor – combines live TV (incorporating a lineup of various cable-originated television channels), on-demand video, and cloud-based DVR to stream television programs, movies, and sporting events directly to a PlayStation console or other supported device – including smart TVs, digital media players and apps – without a subscription to a cable or satellite television provider. Targeted to cord cutters, PlayStation Vue is designed to complement subscription video-on-demand services. s of March 2017 , the service had approximately 400,000 subscribers.
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AT&amp;T GoPhone AT&T GoPhone was the brand name of prepaid mobile phone service from AT&T Mobility, a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T Inc.
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KVUU KVUU (99.9 FM) is a Hot AC radio station in the Colorado Springs, Colorado area that is known by its moniker My 99.9. It was known for many years by its previous moniker, "K-View 99.9".
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Verizon North Verizon North LLC is a Verizon operating company providing local telephone service to former GTE customers in Pennsylvania.
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WantedList WantedList was an adult DVD-by-mail service established in 1999, offering flat-rate subscription-based rentals by mail to customers in the United States. It was based in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California with an additional distribution center in New Jersey.
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Verizon High Speed Internet Verizon High Speed Internet is a digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet service offered by Verizon. It allows consumers to use their telephone and Internet service simultaneously over the same telephone line while benefiting from Internet connection speeds significantly faster than dial-up. This service was launched in 1998 in the North Jersey, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Washington D.C. areas, when Verizon was Bell Atlantic. Today, this service is available in all of Verizon's service area. It was originally known Infospeed DSL and then Verizon Online DSL until it was changed to its current name in 2007.
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NBCUniversal NBCUniversal, sometimes referred to as NBCU or NBCUni and formerly written as NBC Universal, is an American multinational media conglomerate. Headquartered in Rockefeller Plaza's Comcast Building (formerly the GE Building) in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, the company is one of two successor companies to MCA Inc. (Music Corporation of America), the other being Vivendi through its subsidiary Universal Music Group.
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Rdio Rdio was an online music streaming service that offered ad-supported free streaming and ad-free subscription streaming services in 85 countries. It was available as a website and via app for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Windows Phone mobile devices, which could stream music from Rdio's servers or download music for offline playback; there were also clients for the Roku and Sonos systems. The web-based service also offered a native desktop client application for OS X and Windows, as well as a Windows Store application.
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BritBox BritBox is a U.S. subscription video on-demand service owned by BBC Worldwide and ITV plc. It is focuses primarily on British television series, featuring current and past series supplied from the BBC and ITV. Some series, such as "Coronation Street", have new episodes available the next day after their British premiere. AMC Networks, who are the BBC's partner on their domestic cable channel BBC America, has a non-voting minority stake in the service. Its launch was officially announced in March 2017.
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National Videotex Network National Videotex Network (NVN) was an online service launched in 1992 by U.S. Videotel. The service was meant to compete with similar text-based online services such as CompuServe, Delphi and GEnie.