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The biggest challenges facing would-be “virtual MVPDs,” or online video...

The biggest challenges facing would-be “virtual MVPDs,” or online video distributors that would replicate a traditional pay-TV product online, involve access to programming, devices and broadband networks, BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield wrote on the firm’s blog. Questions such as: Will…

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the Internet be able to handle streaming of HD content to TV screens, will bandwidth caps hamper virtual multichannel video programming distributor efforts and will programmers participate remain unanswered, he said. “We continue to believe at least one and more likely a couple of virtual MVPDs will launch before the end of 2012."