ZillionTV is hoping to do for the set-top box market what Hulu has done for the PC. The startup, backed with content and investments from ABC/Disney, Fox, NBC/Universal, Sony and Warner Bros., has announced plans to offer ISPs a set-top box that will stream content to subscriber’s TVs. Customers will have the option to rent […]
Walt Disney Co was considering moves like creating a subscription-based online video club to capture online consumers as well as revenue that is being lost to piracy, Chief Executive Robert Iger said. Iger told analysts at the Deutsche Bank conference “We’ve also seen a pretty dramatic shift in how people consume entertainment with computers and […]
French telco Alice has expanded its AliceBox offering to include 70 new channels for the IPTV service ‘Alice TV’. The new channels include a greater number of news, local and foreign channels, and brings the total number of channels available on the service up to 140. Alice has also started offering 32 channels in MPEG-4 […]
Reuters is preparing to launch a multi-million-dollar online video platform, in an attempt to differentiate its multimedia offering to professional traders and investors by integrating it with the group's existing editorial output and financial data. The service will both showcase an expanded video offering from Reuters News and provide a platform for partners such as […]
Time Warner is developing an initiative dubbed TV Everywhere that will allow viewers to watch networks such as CNN, Cartoon Network and TNT online – as long as they can prove they subscribe to cable, satellite or a telecom TV service. “If you want to watch your favourite TV network or shows through broadband on […]
The Nielsen Company has reported that viewing of video on television, Internet and mobile devices continues to increase and has reached new heights. In its fourth quarter "Three Screen Report", Nielsen said that the average American watches more than 151 hours of TV per month, an all-time high. Meanwhile, Americans who watch video over the […]
Almost half of web users have used illegal file sharing sites, with Limewire (34 per cent) and BitTorrent (25 per cent) the most popular, according to research from Tiscali. In a survey of over 1,000 consumers, 46 per cent have used a peer-to-peer site (P2P), but 53 per cent have never knowingly downloaded music illegally, […]
The BBC's plans to create a "next-generation Freeview" – along with ITV and BT – the so-called Project Canvas – will face regulators' scrutiny as they will seek to establish it isn't the recently banned Project Kangaroo by another name. As well as high-definition Freeview broadcasts, Canvas will bring on-demand viewing to the television, via […]
This week, FilmOn.com, a leading video-on-demand provider Launches www.filmon.tv, a new online video portal. FilmOn.tv. Television channels from across the world will be available live with just a basic Internet broadband connection (1 Megabyte per second) using simple players such as Windows Media Player. Content currently available through the site includes Sky News, the BBC […]
Hulu is bowing to the demands of its content masters and has asked to be removed from Boxee's media centre platform. Boxee had no formal relationship with Hulu and was just gaining some traction with users. Up to this point, Boxee had provided access to Hulu, Netflix, ABC, CBS, MTV and more for free. Hulu […]