Archive for February, 2009


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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Internet TV killing cable subscribers

The Time Warner Cable company (TWC) which is the second largest in the US has revealed that during the 4th quarter of 2008, it lost 119,000 customers. This is a massive increase in the loss for 2007 and much more than expected. And part of the blame is being pointed to online TV streams Time [...]

Channel 4 launching a new catchup tv service

After the death of the catch up tv project ‘Kangaroo’, Channel 4 (one of the partners in the proposed deal) are revamping there online TV service known as 4oD. Project Kangaroo, the TV on demand service proposed by BBC, Channel 4 and ITV was blocked by the Competition Commission last week because it would create [...]