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Amazon Prime Instant Video adds Warner TV shows

, Jul 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

Amazon has signed a deal with Warner Brothers Television that will see the online retailer gaining access to televisions shows such as Fringe, The West Wing, and Alcatraz for its Prime Instant Video service. Anyone who subscribes to Amazon Prime gains access to on-demand movies and TV shows that can be accessed via a multitude of devices, and now Warner’s TV catalogue will be added to the list of available content. Read The Full Story

Hulu expands international wings, deals with BBC

, Jul 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

Not too long after announcing that it secured the American rights to a popular Israeli drama, Hulu has now partnered up with the BBC to bridge the Atlantic Ocean and bring the UK comedy The Thick of It to American shores as well. The difference with this latest deal, though, is that Hulu will actually help with the production of the show. According to the official details, season four of The Thick of It is still produced by the BBC, but now it carries the footnote "in association with Hulu." Read The Full Story

Sky launches Now TV streaming movie service

, Jul 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you want to enjoy streaming movies in the UK, currently you have to rely on either Netflix or Lovefilm. Neither are ideal, with missing titles and long waits before new movies show up on either service. Sky has decided to throw its hat into the ring, today announcing Now TV. The service, which launches tomorrow, will offer two methods for watching movies: pay as you go, or via a monthly subscription. Read The Full Story

XMBC Windows Media Center alternative launches on Android

, Jul 14th 2012 Discuss [0]

XMBC, a leading open-source platform for Internet-enabled media playback, has just announced that it is now available for Android. As the consortium makes clear in its blog post describing the launch, this is not a remote player; it's isn't a dumbed-down mobile version of the client. It is in fact the exact same XMBC experience that you would get on a computer, TV set-top box, etc. Read The Full Story

Netflix streamed a billion hours of content in June

, Jul 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

If you watched anything on Netflix last month, then you helped the digital streaming giant reach a new milestone - a billion hours of streamed video served to users in one month. Company CEO Reed Hastings made the announcement in a Facebook post. It's unclear how far over the billion-hour mark the site went last month, but it probably just barely crossed the finish line. Read The Full Story

Google Nexus Q hacked to run games

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google unveiled the Nexus Q streaming device yesterday alongside the Nexus 7. Taking a look at the specs, you might see an all too familiar processor, with the device featuring a dual-core OMAP4460 CPU - the same chip that's inside the Galaxy Nexus - along with PowerVR SGX540 graphics and 1GB of RAM. Google also hinted at the Q's hackability thanks to the inclusion of a microUSB port, and it looks like developers are starting to see what the device can really do. Read The Full Story

YouTube makes it easier to have a party in Google+ Hangouts

, Jun 15th 2012 Discuss [0]

YouTube has made it easier to share videos with a group of people using Google+ Hangouts. The video giant says the idea is something along the lines of when you go to a party with your friends, and you end up showing each other your favorite YouTube videos. Yesterday marked the launch of the new YouTube app in Google+ Hangouts. Read The Full Story

TiVo Stream and IP set for Fall launch

, May 21st 2012 Discuss [0]

Two new devices / services are being launched this year by the folks who brought you TiVo - one of them working with your iPhone, the other being an extension of TiVo's Preview services, this time getting rid of its integrated CableCARD tuner. With TiVo Stream you'll be setting a small box on your home network, it able to access content via your TiVo Premiere DVR hardware and streams it to devices you've got around the house such as your iPhone or iPad. The TiVo "IP-STB" on the other hand is a TiVo IP set-top box acts as an extra hand for your TiVo Premiere hardware to other televisions. Read The Full Story

Game of Thrones could be the most pirated show of the year

, May 14th 2012 Discuss [5]

Few things get movie and television studios angrier than pirates. HBO can't be happy about the fact that its series Game of Thrones is on track to become the most pirated show of 2012. The show has been increasingly popular this year, and according to analytics firm Big Champagne piracy via BitTorrent is up considerably. Read The Full Story

Xbox 360 is the most popular video player in the country

, May 11th 2012 Discuss [9]

I'll admit that I'm still among the masses that think video games first when I hear the name Xbox 360. After all, the Xbox 360 is a game console. Over the years, the Xbox 360 has transformed from something meant solely for video games into a device that has a myriad of uses. One of the most common uses for the Xbox 360 other than gaming is playing video. Read The Full Story

Amazon to produce original TV shows for Prime Instant Video

, May 3rd 2012 Discuss [1]

Streaming video has become big business and competition seems to be increasing all the time. The big companies in the video streaming market are Netflix and Hulu, but these two firms will have competition from Amazon soon. Amazon has announced that it intends to create its own original programming for its Amazon Prime Instant Video service. Read The Full Story

Netflix believed to be hurting Nickelodeon

, Apr 26th 2012 Discuss [2]

Despite Viacom's assertions that streaming video site Netflix is doing nothing to hurt its Nickelodeon cable channel, the firm Bernstein Research says it has "hard data" to show otherwise. There is no argument that streaming media has had an impact on traditional video distribution channels. There have been studies to show significant numbers of people are actually cutting the cord for Hulu and Netflix. Read The Full Story
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