Comcast, the largest US cable are to beef up their iPad streaming app presence and compete with rival apps from Time Warner and Cablevision which let subscribers stream live cable TV to the Apple iPad. The app which will not be a rebranded Xfinity TV app, but will run alongside it is said to be [...]

Cable company Time Warner have announced the aquisition of Insight Communications Inc., and the company revealed that the web and broadband is becoming  the anchor service The $3 billion deal will help TW gain new customers in the Midwest US and cut costs on staff and infrastructure. The deal would add 700,000 TV subscribers and [...]

Disney’s attitude toward Netflix seems to be changing. Don’t expect to watch premium programming on subscription VOD services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime soon. Talking to investors about Disney’s 3rd quarter results, CEO Bob Iger said “the studio is in discussions with Netflix and other SVOD players about licensing largely library catalog compared to [...]

NetUP from Moscow has developed an Android-based IPTV solution, which is the next generation of IPTV Middleware. This solution gives users a whole new level of performance & functionality. Those of you with Android based set top boxes can experience IPTV for themselves with NetUP’s NetUP.tv, that allows users to enjoy all the IPTV features [...]

The amount of online streaming thats out there has caused some to fear for the future of traditional linear TV. When people can watch their favorite shows on Netflix or Hulu, what’s the point of paying for cable? Cord cutting definately remains a big threat to the pay TV businesses, but new research shows they [...]

Cable giant Comcast are claiming that they have made a record income for the second quarter of the year, despite suffering the setback of losing many of their cable TV subscribers. A key proponent of this increase in income is thought to be the deal made by Comcast half a year ago to purchase production company NBC Universal, [...]