Posts Tagged with ‘television’

Being able to watch television programming on the internet is a wonderful thing. Many of the big networks like ABC, NBC, Fox, etc. have already started uploading television content directly to the internet for users who don't mind watching programming on their computer screens. Of course, that puts cable providers in a bit of a pickle; if users can go directly to the source on the internet and cut out the middle men, what good will cable providers [...]

Last September I wrote about Livestation, a then newly launched online television service in private beta which followed in the footsteps of Joost and Babelgum, but had one clear difference in that it offered 'live' radio/TV streams from popular broadcasters such as BBC. Where all of the competition offers 'on-demand' content that can be paused and played back at any time, Livestation takes the old-school route (similar to traditional television) in providing live video and audio content for its users.
Now, [...]

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 [...]

Last November I wrote about an innovative service that was set to redefine the way consumers buy TV shows online. SyncTV allows users to "download any episode of any show on that channel any time you want," as SyncTV President John Gildred explained. "You will have a whole catalog of all the shows under that channel for a really small price of just a couple of dollars per month."
This week, after receiving an invite into the private beta, I have [...]

Not a week has passed since I assembled a list of predictions for 2008 for your amusement, and already we find two well-known corporate entities deliver an official press release proving one postulation to be quite on-target.
Indeed, both Netflix and LG have teamed together to form a sort of digital download alliance, giving something of a morsel of credence to the article published here in Profy last Saturday. The arrangement the two partners in cinematic deliverance [...]

We here at Profy have spoken before of Vuze. A video content distribution company built upon the P2P-based platform Azureus, Vuze is akin to the iTunes TV shop in that it provides easy access to professionally-produced material both new and old – albeit with one great distinction: most of the stuff’s free.
Fairly recently, Vuze made a few headlines through the issuance of a petition to the FCC to investigate and halt ISPs’ practices of throttling bandwidth and network access [...]

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 [...]

Alright, say you?re an Apple devotee. You may be, you may not be. But, just for kicks, let?s pretend there?s a bit of a love affair going on between you and Cupertino.
How then do you satiate your craving for Apple news? Presumably with a steady diet of blog posts, the produce of rumor mills, maybe even a subscription to a magazine or two. Yes? Okay, well, that?s good and fine, but what about the video angle? How do you [...]