PlayOn the online TV and media player has announced an online DVR service to compliment it. Called PlayLater, the company are calling it “the world’s first DVR for online video.” The PlayLater service records and plays back online video from TV shows to movies from a range of over 25 streaming services. The recording can [...]
British secretary of culture Jeremy Hunt is set to approve American media company News Corporation’s full takeover of satellite broadcasting service Sky (officially known as British Sky Broadcasting), following several months of key negotiations between the relevant companies and the regulatory bodies overseeing the move. Hunt added that as part of this arrangement, News Corp are advised to carry on with their plans use news channel Sky News as an [...]
Long before the launches of Google TV and Samsung’s Smart TV system there was a pioneering company quietly bringing internet connectivity to the television set. That company was Yahoo! and far from being dead as many suspect, they have just announced that their connected-TV platform is now running on 8 million plus devices. Far from [...]
Parental Controls for Streaming Video Streaming video online is a wonderful and convenient way to watch all your favorite shows and movies – and it’s far less expensive than cable. Unfortunately, if you’re a parent, these services don’t often provide safeguard measures to block certain content from your children. To help you determine which services [...]
After being given an opportunity of a lifetime against all the odds but not working out in the end, most people might just be naturally disappointed, but in hindsight happy for their 15 minutes (or in this case, a month) of fame Stateside, eager to get back to what they know best (England and the UK X Factor), and certainly not giving the [...]
Cinema and theater owners have taken a leaf out of Netflix style subscription services by offering their own unique service you cannot watch online. A new service called MoviePass, costing $50 monthly lets subscribers walk in to theaters and watch as many movies as they like. The subscription service runs on users smartphones via a [...]
