Posts Tagged with ‘online-television’

Yesterday marked the official launch of blinkx BBTV, which is aimed to provide “a high-quality television experience over the internet” by offering a large library of independent films and premium programming from existing partners of blinkx.
The new BBTV (BroadBand TeleVision) platform is now being offered as a free download and makes use of blinkx’s patented speech and visual recognition technology and hybrid P2P streaming to provide users with interactive internet television that will add “dimension and context to the [...]

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 [...]

It has been very apparent lately that many television networks are on a trial-and-error basis when it comes to providing content on the web.
Many are now providing full episodes online, but CBS seems to be paying closer attention than most, noticing the shorter attention span of its web audience when compared to television viewers.
In what seems like a step backward, CBS has now launched EyeLab, a service with a collection of short clips from several hit shows that air on [...]

Today, Microsoft announced the upcoming release of Internet TV, stating that “on the morning of Sept. 28, 2007, U.S. users of Windows Vista Home Premium edition and Windows Vista Ultimate edition will find a new feature inside Media Center: the beta release of Internet TV. This new feature will allow people to enjoy a range of television and video content on their PCs and TV sets without a TV tuner in their PC.”
The free service will be supported by advertising [...]

One of the deepest aspects of religion and spirituality is a sense of community. If you are lucky enough to live in a city like Los Angeles, chances are you have easy access to others of your faith and a place of worship to gather in. If you live in more rural areas, or if you are housebound, you may be missing that sense of community and the fellowship with other people who share your faith.
One CEO saw that [...]

It has been very apparent lately that television networks are diligently working on plans to embrace the internet and everything that it offers.
Viacom's MTV Networks has kept itself ahead of the pack, being one of the first networks to offer full episodes of its television programming online for free, through MTV Overdrive.
Now, the company has much broader plans as it prepares to launch two dozen new websites by the first quarter of 2008, with many shows getting their own exclusive [...]

Today, the British television network, BBC, launched its online television service (known as iPlayer), which will be competing with similar offerings that have already been available from Channel 4 and ITV. The service will not allow viewers to save programs, but instead will utilize a temporary-viewing period. Users will have a period of no longer than 30 days to view programming, after which the video content will be automatically deleted. Expect copy-protection solutions to be thrown into the mix too.
Initially, [...]