Archive for November, 2011


Live TV Comes To Xbox Live With Verizon FiOS app

Xbox 360 users who subscribe to Verizon FiOs cable and web services can soon watch Xbox live TV using the Microsoft games console. The service will offer 26 live television channels and launches in December. box users will need to be Live Gold members and need to download the Verizon FiOS TV Xbox app to get [...]

YouTube Claim 21 Billion Hits In Latest Comscore Rankings

ComScore have revealed the latest installment of their monthly online video website ratings, with October’s records suggesting that 184m unique viewers in the USA saw an average of 21.1 hours of online content each during the period. This comes up as a total of over 3.8 billion cumulative hours, with around 42.6 billion videos viewed in the country, said [...]

Is Hulu Coming To Germany Next?

Catch up streaming website Hulu Plus are said to be in talks with German TV networks including RTL and ProSiebenSat.1, in preparation for a launch in the European Country says a news report. It seems like any launch would only be as a subscription based model though, rather than the free Hulu available in the [...]

Microsoft Break New Waves With Videosurf Buy-Out

Microsoft have revealed their latest company buy-out, with online video search engine provider VideoSurf having been purchased for a fee reported to be between $70m and $100m. However, Microsoft do not seem intent on implementing their expensive new ’video startup platform’ across all of their services, instead opting for a near-unanimous focus on the Xbox Live gaming platform (on the [...]

Sky Go Mobile App Adds On-Demand Movies

The Sky Go app from BSkyB has had an upgrade that gives viewers a choice from hundreds of movies on-demand. The app can be downloaded and used free for Sky subscribers or for a fee if your not. The new movies on demand service has a big choice of  movies that include the latest releases [...]

Apple Siri TV Could Get Some Movement

Apple’s planned development of an integrated TV set have stepped up a level in the past few days, with Japanese electronics company JVC reportedly signed up as producers of the proposed ‘iTV’ device, which is thought to be planned for a launch in 2012. It has been suggested for a long time that Apple were planning to make the next step [...]