Archive for October, 2010


YouView Would Welcome Sky Onboard

While Sky was originaly against the YouView platform, YouView now say they would be delighted if Sky came onboard and launched its own Sky Player VOD service on the BBC backed IPTV project.

Youtube Finds Time Traveller In Charlie Chaplin Video

Although many think of Youtube as a place to watch people falling over and other useless material, it may have now be responsible for something quite profound. Do you believe that time travel is possible? What if a video of someone on a mobile phone was found fifty years before mobiles existed?

Sony And Yahoo!7 Expand Catch Up TV Service

Australian Catch Up TV service Yahoo!7 have agreed a deal with Sony Pictures TV which will allow the srvice to offer an extra 100 hours of premium tv shows and content for internet tv viewers.

YouView Brings 2012 Olympics And Local TV News On Board

Kip Meek, YouView’s chairman has announced that the London 2012 Olympics and local TV news services are two of the areas where the BBC backed VOD service expects to excel after launch date. Meek also announced that YouView was in “very early stage discussions” with main US TV studios over the possibility of providing content [...]

TV Networks Closing The Pitches

As the development cycle for TV shows comes to an end for the year, it will be bad news to potential new show projects that the major networks, which have the power to make their creative ideas a reality, are now in the processes of shutting down their buying of new projects until the start of the next development season.

Boxee Gets Ready To Launch By Adding Vudu On Demand Movies

The long awaited Boxee internet set-top tv box will come with the latest movies to watch on demand. Manufactured by D-Link, the Boxee will give users access to the Walmart owned Vudu movie rental content, offering movie viewing on the same day as the DVD is released.