Archive for February, 2009

Netflix to offer dedicated online Movie rental service

DVD by mail giant Netflix have revealed they are going to offer an Online Movies Only service to cater for the growing interest and demand in internet Viewing.

Netflix spokesman Barry McCarthy said:- “We are likely to do that in the foreseeable future.
He also said that they will continue focusing on selling bundled online and by [...]

Panasonic Launch Internet enabled TV in Europe

In the emerging world of internet and traditional TV, another major manufacturer has launched an internet enabled TV market.
The European IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) Television set to be launched in May by Panasonic is its first venture into the battle for a piece of the internet and TV entertainment pie.

Featuring software known as ‘Viera Cast’ [...]

Star Trek Boldly going to Iphone

CBS is taking the iPhone where no iPhone has gone before.
Good news for iPhone owners into Scifi. Star Trek complete with strange outfits and pointy ears can be viewed on your mobile device.

Star Trek:-
“Space…The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise. Its 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out [...]

Cable companies muscle in on internet TV

The cable companies are coming after online TV. There are a growing army of users viewing TV shows and movies online and for free. The cable companies are seeing this happen and are looking to get some of the action. They are all looking at creating online cable TV platforms but of course only if [...]

Americans watching more Television than ever

Americans are sitting in front of the Gogglebox more now than at any time in the past according to new figures.
According to Nielsen’s ‘Three Screen Report’, your average US citizen watches over 151 hours of television every month.
The three screen report so named because it incorporates TV, phones and computers, reveals that viewing figures for [...]

CBS fight to get Hulu streaming back

In the continuing ‘Internet TV wars’, TV.com’s owner CBS have intimated that they are not happy with Hulu withdrawing TV streams from their website and plan to continue streaming them.
In a statement CBS revealed they will fight the removal of Hulu’s streams on TV.com. They said:- “CBS Interactive is well within its rights to stream [...]

Comcast to launch streaming TV on demand service

Cable TV giant Comcast is planning to launch its own internet TV service.
Known as ‘OnDemand Online’, the service will be launched later in the year and will be showing premium content from the cable networks.
It will be a different service from Hulu though. Hulu shows content from the main networks such as Fox and NBC, [...]

Full TV shows viewed online has doubled since 2006

Watching Full episodes via the internet has always been popular, but now it has skyrocketed. Double the number of Internet users now view full TV shows online than they did in 2006.
The report compiled by Research company Knowledge Networks, showed that a fifth of Internet users surveyed aged 13-54 view full TV shows on the [...]