Archive for July, 2009

MSN Launch Catch UP Online TV Service For The UK

PC users across the UK will soon be able to tune into a multitude of TV content courtesy of the new MSN Video Player.
Microsoft has decided that now is the time to join the online TV revolution and is launching a trial version of the MSN Video player within the next week. The player will [...]

BBC Deliver More Details About Project Canvas

The BBC Trust have released the latest report on the new Internet TV cooperation that is project Canvas.
The initiative led by the BBC and partnering with BT and ITV is an ambitious project aimed at defining a new standard for the delivery of streaming content to broadband fitted set-top boxes.
During the first phase of its [...]

Are You Willing To Pay For Quality? Disney Thinks So

Those cute and cuddly characters at Disney are turning all mean and nasty. Wanting to start charging for online TV.
The CEO of Walt Disney, Robert Iger revealed last week that it is developing a subscription website providing TV episodes and movies with a sweetner of games and other parathenalia to temp you to part with [...]

Cable TV Cannot Compete With Internet TV. So Its Joining It Instead.

With the huge popularity and prolifiration of Internet TV. The cable television industry has found a reposte to this increasing threat to revenue. Allow cable subscribers to watch cable on any internet enabled device.
Cable television giants, Time Warner and Comcast declared in June that they will launch a new service known as ‘TV Everywhere’. Trials [...]

Women Watching More Catch Up TV Than Men Do

Catch Up TV is watched by more women than men, according to a new study. TVNZ a New Zealand based Online TV content provider says that its On Demand television service is mainly being watched by women who need to catch up on the soaps they may have missed when broadcast.
Viewers are watching about 1.5 [...]

Hulu Kills PS3 Streaming TV at Request of Content Provider

Hulu inexplicably stopped allowing TV streams across the Sony PS3 Console recently. But now we have a reason why. A Hulu spokesperson has )at last) revealed why they blocked its free catch up tv streams on PS3.
The reason seems to boil down to Hulu having legal issues with one of the content providers who does [...]

Was Twitter to Blame For Bruno Losing Millions?

After the massive success of ‘Borat’, Sacha Baron Cohen and his film studio were confident that the new movie ‘Brüno’ would do it again with a predicted $50 million opening weekend takings.
But the promised and predicted millions didn’t come. Although it still had a good weekend with takings at a nice $30.4 million, a lot [...]

Online TV Viewers Will Pay For Online Content Says New Report

Contrary to popular belief that we will all be watching Ad supported Free TV online, it has been claimed that this year will see a major growth in viewers paying to watch online TV.
In a report published by Strategy Analytics, online viewers will happily pay to view, as they currently pay to listen with music [...]