Posts Tagged with ‘nbc’

Earlier today at its “Let’s Rock” event Apple has made a few announcements about the new iTunes version 8. The announcements include a new feature called Genius to automatically build playing lists for you and availability of HD content in iTunes priced at $2.99 apiece.
And this brings me to the most intriguing part for me: NBC content is back in iTunes store with a range of new HD shows, including The Office, Monk, Battlestar Galactica, 30 Rock. HD shows will [...]

Associated Press reports today about how the Olympic Games influence the way people use new technology heavier than ever before. What’s more important, for some of the people the Oplympics serve as an incentive to actually try some new technologies for the first time. For example, half of all the people who used their mobile devices to consume video content actually made it for the first time in their lives.
NBC Universal with its broad online video coverage of the Olympics [...]

I've been keeping my eye on Red Lasso since November 2007 when it first hit the social media news scene.  It had been in various stages of closed beta and development for a while before then.  The content wrangling site found rapid success and several early adopters, but quickly started to hit snags.
The premise behind Red Lasso is that users of the service can find, select and share multi media content. It is geared toward video and audio content, [...]

With News Corp. and NBC offering up such oldies as The A-Team, Kojak, Partridge Family, and S.W.A.T. (among many others) to their online audience at Hulu and other NBC sites, it only seems logical that other television networks would follow suit in offering former fan favorite shows for viewing via the internet.
Today, CBS has become the latest network to join the online old-school bandwagon, as the company's CBS Interactive division has announced that some of their classic televisions shows [...]

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 [...]

NBC has now officially launched the download service for its television programming, known as NBC Direct, although initial plans had called for an October launch. Now, at no cost, anyone can download full episodes of a wide variety of NBC programs including Heroes, The Office, Bionic Woman, and Las Vegas among others.
The service is available as a public beta and requires Windows Media Player as well as Internet Explorer in order to watch videos in the service's custom player.
What I [...]

Today's launch of Hulu (and its partnership with Comcast) reminded me of Fancast, which is a hybrid entertainment portal from the cable service provider.
Back in August when I reviewed Fancast, I admired it and described it as “web 2.0 meets IMDB meets TV Guide” for its comprehensive database of movies and television shows that also provided viewers with TV listings in an effort to help visitors decide what to watch each day on television.
Just as expected, my visit to [...]

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 [...]

When NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker took time Wednesday to stand atop his company’s soapbox, he said something quite true: that copyright owners are in fact “losing the battle” against the world’s digital pirates.
What he failed to follow his statement up with, however, is that it’s really no use fighting the copyright violators (which, I might add, he said most certainly should be done, and perhaps exponentially more forcefully), and that it’d be far more effective and financially beneficial for [...]