Archive for December, 2008

Cable TV feeling the pich as the recession kicks in

As the biggest recession known to most of us gets into full swing, the cable TV companies are facing big problems. Subscribers to these ‘luxury’ services are looking to cut their monthly outgoings. And even worse, the advertisers are cutting costs too. So the cable companies are facing a double whammy.

When times get hard, viewers [...]

Happy Internet TV christmas from worldtvpc

Happy christmas to all world tv users. To celebrate an ever improving year for internet TV, i thought we would watch some christmas themed carols courtesy of Youtube.
The year has seen many great improvements with internet tv, catch up tv and online videos. The choice is much bigger. The quality much better and the outlook [...]

Watch Streaming HD Movies via Netflix

Netflix subscribers will soon be able to watch streaming movies in jaw dropping HD quality.
Manufacturer of Netflix’s set top box player Roku has upgraded the hardware enabling support of the high definition format. The hardware allows Netflix users to stream online movies to their TV set
Roku will roll out the upgraded software to its set [...]

BBC iPlayer becomes kid friendly

The BBC’s iPlayer, although a superbly designed TV portal is not always suitable for kids, so the BBC have only gone and launched a child friendly iPlayer so kids can watch it’s catch up tv service.
Known as the ‘CBBC iPlayer’. It will let kids catch up with all of their favorite TV shows and give [...]

Warner in Youtube spat

Away from Internet TV and into the world of Youtube drama and music videos. Warner, the first of the major music labels that agreed a licensing deal with YouTube in 2006 has removed all its music videos from the video sharing giant after protracted negotiations fell apart.
Talks collapsed on Saturday due to Warner wanting a [...]

Watch TV and Movies on any mobile device with ViO

Watch Internet TV, Movies and TV shows on any mobile device

Watching your favorite Movies and TV shows and downloaded internet TV files on any mobile device is a major pain because of all the different formats used. Does your device need the file in AVI format? MPEG? MP4? Or something else? Because of this, many [...]

Sling streaming TV onto Blackberry PDA

Blackberry, the coolest mobile PDA device can now watch internet TV. Sling Media creators of the remote TV device Slingbox are releasing its BlackBerry application BlackBerry devices at the end of 2008.
This new fangled app called origionally enough ‘Slingplayer Mobile’ Lets users watch and control TV and DVR remotely using your Blckberry and also viewing [...]

New Movie search feature added to worldtvpc internet tv site

Wouldnt it be great to just type in the name of the latest movie and get to see the plot synopsis, movie details, trailers and even links to the full movie?
Well stop dreaming, this feature is here and is avalable on our movies and TV shows page of worldtvpc.com.
Type in a movie name into the [...]