Akimbo Systems

Akimbo Systems is a Video On Demand company that allows subscribers to download television shows, movies, and other video to a set-top box on demand.

Akimbo is the first fully functional marriage of TV and the Internet, allowing quick and easy access to new shows. It is the first step toward the ability of making one's own TV line-up. Its hard-drive-equipped set-top box plugs into a broadband connection and stores the chosen full-resolution programs using Akimbo’s TiVo-like guide. The initial content is a bit eccentric — Turkish-language shows, independent films, British dramas from Granada TV, a lot of skin flicks — but CNN and the Cartoon Network are also among the offerings from its 50 content partners, and more are signing up all the time.