Archive for April, 2009


Traditional TV will be dead by 2010

We all know that internet TV is the hot ticket right now and that traditional TV is well, just Erm.. boring. But in a new report, Microsoft are claiming that within 4 years traditional TV could be dead and buried. Apparently the TV sitting in your front room will soon be obsolete, and will be [...]

Spiderman coming to Youtube

After a flurry of activity, Youtube is up to some more. It is now in talks with Sony Pictures to acquire licensing rights to show movies such as box office hit ‘SpiderMan’. This comes just days after Disney announced it had licensed streaming content to the video giant. These will however just be in the [...]

Youtube getting a makeover to show more internet TV

In a bid to get more advertising revenue, YouTube is having a makeover. The redesign is a bid to become a more attractive place for content owners to show their streams – case in point being Disney who just signed up to a deal with Youtube. See an example of the new style Youtube So [...]

Cash strapped Hulu ready for Disney deal

Whilst negotiations are still underway between Disney and Hulu ongoing (Hulu and Disney deal all but done). And the companies sweat over the fine print. Rumours are rife about Hulu running low on cash funds and needing the deal more than Disney. Hulu which started just over a year ago had $100M of finance put [...]

Hulu and Disney deal all but done.

We hear on the grapevine that negotiations between Hulu and Disney (ABC) will be concluded at any time. After our recent ABC TV coming to Hulu? post it appears that soon 3 out of the major 4 US networks will be showing on the one website and seal Hulu’s dominance in the online catch up [...]