Archive for February, 2009

Internet TV wars getting nasty

After a cosy start to showing TV online, the internet TV companies are starting to get nasty.

As reported earlier this week Hulu, has removed its content from both TV.com and Boxee. TV.com is owned by rival broadcaster CBS – Boxee writes software allowing set top boxes to stream internet TV. And why is Hulu showing [...]

Hulu getting tough with TV.com and Boxee

In a shocking move. Online TV website Hulu has decided that it doesnt want its TV content being streamed on and via other websites.
It has forced both Tv.com and Boxee to remove all Hulu content from its services. Boxees Blog said:-
Two weeks ago Hulu called and told us their content partners were asking them to [...]

Internet TV Website TV.com – 263% rise in viewers.

Revamped Internet TV website TV.com is loved by the viewers, showing a trailblazing 263% rise of unique viewers to it’s website during January.

The revamped TV portal owned by CBS shows a selection of full length TV shows alongside news, forums, blogs and other additional TV related fare. The survey carried out by Nielsen Video Census [...]

Internet TV success – This is just the beginning

Internet TV is still in its birth pangs and despite its massive success has a long way to go. So says a BBC iPlayer spokesman.

Ashley Highfield, who was BBC head of Future Media and Technology and is now the MD of consumer and online – Microsoft UK commented:- “Internet viewing is still a very small [...]

Lost the most watched TV show online

Watching TV shows online is booming as we know and now the internet TV show ratings confirm it. It has been announced by Nielsen that the Show viewed the most online is Lost which had a mamoth 1.4 million unique views during December last year.
The Stats which cover December 2008, shows the results from the [...]

Beam me up scotty. Star Trek HD streams on Youtube

For those of you of a certain age will remember the classic Star Trek with Scotty, Bones and Captain Kirk. They may all be walking around with zimmer frames now, but in their prime the starred in the most influential and groundbreaking SciFi series of all time.
And now thanks to Youtube and CBS, you are [...]

Netflix movie subscribers hit 10 million plus

The amazing success story of Netflix continues unabbated. The company has announced that its subscriber base has blown through the 10 million barrier, in part due to the runaway success of it’s movie streaming online.
The company which is the largest online movie rental service in the world has managed to add over 600,000 new subscribers [...]

Apple getting into streaming TV in a big way

Apple TV and iTunes developments are on the way that will involve streaming movies and TV shows more accesible via Apple products.
It has the snazzy name of ‘iTunes Replay’, and is Apple’s on demand video service letting users stream directly from their website rather than having to download it to your ipod, this will save [...]