Archive for September, 2009


Catch Up TV Growing In Popularity In Europe

It has been a runaway success in the US especially with Hulu, but now catch up tv is really taking off in Europe. There has been a massive growth in catch up tv streams in the United Kingdom with services like the BBC iPlayer attracting millions of viewers across the web, allowing users to view [...]

Intel Chips And Widgets Are The Future Of TV

Intel have revealed that they think the future of our television set integrating with the web is vital to their future success. The annual Intel Developer Forum which happened this week and also the unveiling of its system on a chip Atom processor which is designed solely for internet enabled TV sets. Intel have previously [...]

Hulu Free Status Attacked By CBS Executive

Yet another attack on free internet tv by a greedy tv exec. Quincy Smith of CBS in a leaked email has stuck the knife into free tv website Hulu – In the email he says :- “We should think about how hard it would be to prove that some ratings declines are a result of [...]

Comcast Giving Advertising Blitz To Fancast Online TV Portal

Lets be honest, when it comes to watching TV shows on the internet, there is really only one choice and that is Hulu. They became so popular not just because of the top quality content, but also thanks to its big advertising campaign during the Super Bowl which saw a 33% jump in viewers. Now, [...]

BBC Should Charge For iPlayer Says Television Exec

The greed of the TV companies rears its ugly head yet again, this time a chief executive of a TV production company says iPlayer viewers should have to pay “micro payments” for using the BBC’s catch up television service. Lorraine Heggessey of Talkback Thames made the startling announcement at a BBC event this week. Nearly [...]

PC And Television Sets Merge into a Super TV

It has been slowly happening in front of our eyes. The marrying of the television set and the pc has been tried a few times but is now set to explode into our living rooms. Due to technological advancements in television sets they are now fully equipped to run Webpages and apps within the tv [...]