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Sky NOW TV on-demand revealed as Anytime+ drops ISP limit

Chris Davies, Mar 21st 2012 Discuss [0]

Sky UK has branded up its internet TV service, NOW TV, offering on-demand access to streaming movies, sport and other content on smart TVs, tablets, phones and other devices. NOW TV is still on track for a launch later this year. Meanwhile, Sky's existing "Anytime+" video on demand service has quietly opened up to non-Sky broadband subscribers in the UK, with a mixture of SD and HD content from the company's channels. Read The Full Story

Apple television in telecoms testing tip sources: Siri, gestures, more

Chris Davies, Feb 7th 2012 Discuss [2]

Apple's much-anticipated Siri-powered television is already in testing at Canadian telecoms firms Rogers and Bell, sources claim, offering a combination of voice, gesture and on-screen keyboard control. The company is chasing deals with telecommunications firms with fingers in both broadcast and broadband pies, insiders tell The Globe and Mail, Apple hoping to capitalize on live and on-demand content with a naturalistic interface using the voice control system. Read The Full Story

Verizon and Redbox partner on Netflix streaming rival for 2H 2012

Chris Davies, Feb 6th 2012 Discuss [8]

Verizon and Redbox have announced plans to take on Netflix, with an on-demand video streaming service set to launch in the second half of 2012. The as-yet-unnamed service will accompany Redbox's existing DVD and Blu-ray rental kiosks, with subscription services "and more" for streamed video using Verizon's on-demand and download system. Read The Full Story

Sky reveals streaming TV plans for non-subscribers, plus Sky Go Android app

Chris Davies, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

Sky has revealed a new on-demand streaming TV service, offering subscription-based and pay-per-view content to those who haven't signed up to the network's satellite TV option. Set to launch in the UK in the first half of this year, the new Sky internet TV service will stream content to computers, tablets, mobile phones, games consoles and smart TVs. Meanwhile, there's also news on expansion to the Sky Go mobile app, including a version for Android. Read The Full Story

Microsoft’s online TV subscription plan on hold

Rue Liu, Jan 11th 2012 Discuss [2]

Microsoft's plans to attack cable TV with its own online TV subscription service may be on hold, according to sources familiar with the situation. According to Reuters, Microsoft has been in intense discussions with media companies, seeking potential program partners for over a year and hoping to launch its subscription service within the next few months. However, those plans are now on hold due to high licensing costs. Read The Full Story

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Xbox TV puts Microsoft ahead of Apple and Google

Chris Davies, Dec 5th 2011 Discuss [25]

Gaming has long been Microsoft’s wildcard: while the company struggles to find its feet with Windows Phone, and faces a difficult tablet market when its Windows 8 slates finally appear, the Xbox 360 continues to sell strongly. Now Xbox TV has arrived to not only reassure 360-owning gamers that they made the right console choice, but broaden the 360′s appeal to a whole new segment. It’s not entirely fashionable to praise Microsoft, especially when it’s over something that, buried in the company’s history books, they’ve tried and failed at before. Smart TV has suffered the usual ignominies and from the usual flaws: sluggish hardware, confusing interface, dawdling internet connections. Now, with Xbox LIVE TV, all the pieces seem finally to be coming together.

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Xbox 360′s LIVE cable TV attack detailed

Chris Davies, Dec 5th 2011 Discuss [12]

Microsoft has detailed its challenge to cable TV, with a roadmap of Xbox LIVE streaming content for the Xbox 360 including Hulu Plus, Netflix and the BBC, as well as the Kinect-powered voice control that will be used to bypass the traditional remote. Beginning as part of the Xbox LIVE Dashboard update for the 360 that rolls out tomorrow, the dozens of TV channels, streaming services and other content providers will join gaming and other internet services on the console. More details of content deals after the cut.

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Sony web TV plans could undercut cable

Chris Davies, Nov 16th 2011 Discuss [3]

Sony is reportedly scheming a web TV system intended to pull the rug out from under cable operators, delivering more affordable TV content via the internet to the PS3 and other Sony hardware. The company has opened talks with NBCUniversal, Discovery and News Corp, the WSJ‘s sources claim, though Sony’s apparent aim to license a smaller package of channels – to keep its own costs, and subsequent user fees, low – is said to not be going down well among content creators.

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Sears’ Alphaline digital download store closes down

Chris Davies, Oct 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

Another digital content provider has apparently gone quietly to the graveyard, with RoxioNow-powered Alphaline Entertainment no longer operational. The service - which launched back in December 2010 as a partnership between retailer Sears and platform provider Sonic Solutions - has been taken offline, with the company's site now suggesting that, as of September, Alphaline was no longer available. Read The Full Story

Roku 2 HD, XD and XS clear FCC with boosted SoC and new remote

Chris Davies, Jun 30th 2011 Discuss [5]

Three new Roku media streamers have been spotted passing through the FCC, ahead of a retail launch as the Roku 2 HD, XD and XS. The new models - 3000X, 3050X and 3100X - shed some physical bulk and the blunt edges of their predecessors, using a new, curvy design language (but still keeping the cute fabric tag) and slotting in an updated Broadcom 2835 SoC. Read The Full Story

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I Ditched Scheduled TV for On-Demand

Chris Davies, Jun 13th 2011 Discuss [5]

Sometimes the big changes creep up on you, and it’s only much later that you realize you’ve had your own little digital lifestyle epiphany. Having read about “the death of scheduled television” and the migration to on-demand content for years now, it still all seemed like a distant – unfeasible – dream. Yet somehow, without really intending to, I’ve been weened off broadcast TV and liberated from the schedules, without really trying.

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Microsoft Xbox LIVE Diamond subscription IPTV tipped for E3 2011

Chris Davies, Jun 3rd 2011 Discuss [10]

Details of Microsoft’s E3 2011 launch have leaked, and as expected it’s a new IPTV service baked into Xbox LIVE. The company is putting the finishing touches to Xbox LIVE Diamond, WinRumors‘ source claims, the official name for the much-rumored Project Orapa. The Diamond TV system will combine existing mediaroom IPTV services and Xbox LIVE, harnessing Kinect-based motion control along with various music and video offerings.