Posts Tagged with ‘nbc-universal’

Since its launch at the end of October, Hulu has changed the opinions of many of its negative critics with outstanding features implemented into a clean and easy-to-navigate interface.
Not only that, but the private beta testing phase that the service has been under since going live also appears to be receiving all of the attention and updates necessary to provide a successful public launch, whenever that may be planned for. 
The way I see it, online video [...]

The wait is over (at least for me), and now I have finally received a chance to test out Hulu, the recently launched video service that had me scratching my head just a few short months ago.
Early on in the development process of Hulu, there seemed to be no clear focus on what exactly the service would provide or even what name it would assume upon launch, which left more than a few journalists and bloggers wary of what NBC [...]

Just to freshen your memories in case anyone forgot about Hulu, it is the joint venture between News Corp. and NBC Universal that was announced in March, unnamed until the end of August, and delayed from a September private beta launch until now, the end of October. As expected, the online video service launched today to a limited crowd of private beta testers, and dare I say it actually looks promising.
Ok… So I haven't actually tested the service or even [...]

You may remember my recent post about how the joint venture between News Corporation and NBC Universal had earned a valuation of $1 billion, even though it had yet to be named since it's March announcement.
Well, now a decision has been reached. In news that is well overdue, NBC and News Corp. have now announced an official name for their joint venture.
Hulu. It's four letters that took five months to create. It sounds a little funny, but I think that [...]

It's interesting what ideas you'll find in the strangest of places. Yesterday's online Variety, for example, was where I found the first mention I've seen of Didja, a site being launched next year by NBC Universal .
The plan for Didja is a niche social/video site, with the focus being on commercials, including TV spots, trailers, and, in this Utopian product ideal, spots created especially for Didja. The site is allegedly scheduled to launch early next year, with USA-SciFi President Bonnie [...]

The plot thickens every day in the battle between various entities and the tag team of Google and YouTube. The yesterday's news is that NBC Universal has taken sides with Viacom in their piracy lawsuit. This lawsuit, and the most recent one by the English Premier Soccer League we reported on a couple of days ago, may signal the end for "questionably" legal content submission not only on YouTube but anywhere the U.S court has jurisdiction or influence. The weighing in of [...]

Networks playing together? Online? Together? It can’t be. But it is.
They don’t wanna hang out on YouTube, they wanna live in their own house, a web space yet to be named that will be high in professional, multi-million-dollar television programming and low in sleepy puppies and shopping cart antics.
“They” are NBC Universal and FOX (the latter is owned by News Corp), and they’re the first media houses to give Google the cold shoulder by announcing a vague plan for their [...]

(Reuters) January 16, 2007 - According to this news release via Yahoo! News, Netflix is offering its long awaited instant movie delivery service online. The service allows users to view nearly 1000 movies and TV shows on their PC's at no additional charge. The new product is scheduled to be demonstrated by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings at the National Retail Federation convention in New York. Netflix will be receiving an award today for their innovation in retail business. Hastings said [...]