Why Online TV Is Blowing Away Cable And Rental Companies

It was a bit of a milestone when it was announced that Netflix had more subscribers than the mighty cable giant Comcast. With a Q1 finish of 22.80 million for Netflix and 22.76 million for Comcast. That’s pretty impressive for a streaming company, but it’s not where the surprise lies. That happens when you look [...]

Comcast Blocking The Pirate Bay Saga Revealed

News was coming in from the grapevine that some ISP’s including Comcast, were blocking the file-sharing website known as the Pirate Bay. The news came from TorrentFreak who revealed that as of Thursday morning, Comcast users in the US were blocked from accessing the site. The Pirate Bay is probably the most popular BitTorrent file [...]

Cox Enters The TV Everywhere Market

When Cox subscribers login to their account at www.cox.com/tv they will soon gain access to 15000 plus TV shows from cable and broadcast networks, as Cox Communications enters the internet TV market. With their new service, Cox is joining a number of operators and programmers that are offering authenticated access to TV on demand and [...]

Comcast Xfinity Comes To TiVo Premiere

DVR manufacturer TiVo have revealed that Comcast subscribers who own a Premiere model can soon start watching the Xfinity video-on-demand service. In the past, Comcast users with a TiVo had to change over to the Comcast box in order to view the cable companies video-on-demand. The news is all good for TiVo owning Comcast subscribers, [...]

Data Capping Could Mean Online Streaming Costs Rising

The dream of free and low cost streaming across the web has been coming to fruition lately. However could data capping being introduced by internet service providers, end the dream? As more and more streaming services pop up, the data consumption is turning from huge, to ginormous. In reply, providers are starting to introduce capping [...]

Comcast Adds Fox And ABC To On-Demand Service

Cable giant Comcast have announced a deal that will set them as the only on-demand video presence (Comcast On-Demand), which shows content from all of the four major American broadcast networks (ABC, Fox, NBC and CBS). This equates to an addition of over 20 network TV shows added to their roster of on-demand content. As part of Comcast’s [...]