Canvas news roundup - 26 Oct

Directly related to Canvas:

• Oct 12: Sky once again publicly released its submission to the BBC Trust - this time it was their response to the second consultation on Canvas. Unsurprisingly Sky’s views aren’t a ringing endorsement - or any endorsement - of the Project. Our blog post here has the relevant links including the full Sky submission, and a response from the BBC on behalf of all the Project Canvas partners.
• Oct 8: It was announced (at Mipcom) that Canvas is trying to work with HbbTV (the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV initiative - a ‘European Canvas’ of sorts, at least in result if not structure)   IPTV News article here.
• Sep 24: The Digital TV Group (DTG) had its first open meeting about Project Canvas. We’ve only been able to find one wrap-up of the day, from Informitv here, and it is less than glowing. Definitely worth a read.

About VOD & IPTV more generally:

• Oct 21: It’s increasingly looking like VOD poster-child Hulu will introduce paid access of some form in 2010. Most likely is it will be for some form of premium access, with the bulk of the site and recent shows remaining ad supported. B&C article here.
• Oct 20: The BBC Trust has rejected the proposal from BBC management to create Open iPlayer. The reason given? The mix of public and commercial aspects of its current state made it too complex to evaluate. This was the initiative that was originally know as Project Marquee, and concerned a single gateway site for public service broadcasters’ VoD efforts. The actual full proposal was never made public due to cited commercial confidentiality reasons. First found via article here at BroadcastNow. Plenty of coverage at Google News.
• Oct 15: Channel 4 & YouTube announced a deal that will see all of their original shows put up YouTube in their entirety, supported by ads.  The deal sees Channel 4 able to sell YouTube inventory beyond just their own shows too, and the rumour is that C4 keep the majority of sales revenue. First found via TechCrunch UK. Plenty of coverage at Google News.

Don’t forget too - a lot of the above news we mention via Twitter as and when it’s happening - @ProjectCanvasUK .