Posts Tagged with ‘amazon-unbox’

So Hulu launched to a combination of hype and cynicism and Michael Eisner is convinced that Internet content will equal television in the next five years. Eisner is already producing his second digital-only series to prove his point. But what's the reality of Internet video content?
Dan Frommer at Sillicon Alley Insider says he got rid of his cable subscription, figuring he can save money in the long run by downloading content instead. But as he notes, with Time Warner testing [...]

Before I begin detailing the latest travesty in high-speed highway robbery, I need to disclose that I have been a Time Warner high-speed customer since they first did a beta program in my area. I remained loyal even when DSL arrived, for far less money than what I pay for my high-speed cable connection. And I've encouraged countless others to ditch their dial-up to move to Time Warner's services.
Hopefully, my long history as an evangelist of their services will explain [...]

Although online video and television programming offerings have surged over the past year, one particular aspect of the experience, the pricing scheme, can turn out quite costly if viewers are paying $2 to $3 per episode of a show. Not to mention the fact that, as we have seen with Google, purchased videos may not be yours to keep forever.
Now, aiming to keep its pricing strategy more in line with traditional television, SyncTV is a new TV download service running [...]

Apparently, NBC Universal cannot wait for the launch of Hulu (its joint venture with News Corp.) to offer its full episodes online to viewers.
Via a press release, NBC has announced that it will be offering its top television shows for users to download up to a week after broadcast. The videos will be ad-supported, which will allow NBC to provide the shows for free. Confirmed shows for the launch include Heroes, The Office, Life, Bionic Woman, 30 Rock, Friday Night [...]

The Web is abuzz with talk over who in the Apple-NBC debacle is the worst off for the planned severance to come next week, when The Peacock’s fall programming has its public debut. Profy’s very own Cyndy Aleo-Carreira covered the news soon after it broke, and now we receive word that, following its exit from the iTunes shop, NBC has tapped Amazon for the distribution of its content for the season ahead. So we figured we’d pick the story apart [...]

Slowly but surely, IPTV is making way into more and more avenues of the consumer market. The latest news to push that point further along is an Amazon-TiVo joint announcement stating movies available in Amazon’s Unbox department will be accessible to all Series 2 and Series 3 TiVo set top box owners/users – directly through interaction with said TiVo boxes - starting today.
Okay, so it’s not technically IPTV if we’re talking “Internet Protocol Television”. Same diff, though, [...]

Plenty of services and programs out there for sale and for download on the Web promise superior quality to that of rivals, but now, as we enter the largest phase of the video wars to come in years, we get to see who?s besting whom - real-time.
Amazon Unbox just announced its partnership with TiVO to deliver Unbox content to your living room, without the hassle of networking a computer to a set top box. The content, ranging from television shows [...]

We bring up items like YouTube and Myspace as poster children of the Web 2.0 “movement.” Yes? No? I think it’s safe to say so. But the push to further technological advances to bring us closer together doesn’t stop at everyman’s creation of graphic-saturated profiles or uploading stuff that one would rather get exposed to millions in an online community than get a crack at the $10,000 prize on the timeless US-based television series, AFV. It’s reaching… well, a lot further. [...]