March 06, 2009
This is a case where no definitely means no. Hulu’s content is once again gone from Boxee. To recap: In October, Boxee integrated Hulu content into its media platform, creating an elegant way for users to experience Hulu video on televisions. Last month, under pressure from its content partner...
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March 02, 2009
Cartman & Co. are headed for Netflix, as the movie rental company has signed a deal to stream the first nine seasons of South Park through its Watch Instantly service, reports The New York Times today. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have already shown their show is a hit online a...
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February 16, 2009
Hard to believe that the NCAA Mens’ Basketball March Madness Tournament is just around the corner — but it is, and this year CBS Sports is adding a high-quality viewing option to its March Madness On Demand (MMOD) video player. The new player uses Microsoft’s Silverlight (CBS has a...
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February 11, 2009
Zunavision is an ad startup that has been on our radar for a while. It looks like we will be keeping tabs on them for a long time, now that they have snagged an early round of funding and launched a commercial product. The funding came from Stanford professor David Cheriton, who hooked up GoogleR...
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Turner Sports will provide live video coverage of this weekend’s NBA All-Star game online and via an iPhone app (streamable over 3G!). While the video will be live, it is not a webcast of the televised game, Turner still wants you to watch the action on oldteevee (along with all those ads). In...
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Turns out there was some NewTeeVee-ish news that came out of the New York Comic-Con last weekend. Our sister publication The Apple Blog (via TechRadar) writes that Marvel is getting further into the motion comics game, selling the slightly animated versions of their books on iTunes — sometimes...
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February 10, 2009
VUDU, the little set-top box that couldn’t, said today it’s slashed the price of its HD movie rental device in half, to $149. And it credits the ability to enact such a deep discount to strong holiday sales and content revenue flow, as well as lower component costs — not because th...
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The Grammys found gold on Twitter last night, with nearly 27,500 people buzzing about winners and losers. Heck, the official Grammy site had its own Twitter feed going (a poor stand-in for not live-streaming the event). As has been the case for a few weeks with our Top Twittered Broadcast TV Shows f...
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February 09, 2009
Just about every news channel is covering President Obama’s press conference this evening. That’s a lot of coverage for what is essentially a Q&A session. All this attention could be because the world is going to hell in a handbasket and this is Obama’s first formal press outin...
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February 05, 2009
Between over-the-top video delivery, widgets and remote-less TV controls, what a television does will go through dramatic changes in 2009. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. According to two new research reports, people are looking for their TVs to get social, and the way we purchase TV s...
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