Posts Tagged with ‘Tivo’

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 [...]

I have to admit my prejudice against WiiBrowser that started when I first read what they did; without a big, pretty HDTV, I find any and all web browsing from my kids' Nintendo Wii to be kludgy, ugly, and painful. The Wii uses Opera, which only adds to my pain, because the one thing I WOULD allow the kids to do with it online is visit sites like Webkinz World, but the Wii Opera browser doesn't support the latest Flash [...]

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 [...]

The year is almost through. Eggnog’s running low. The once fresh-cut Douglas-firs placed inside millions of homes over the holidays are running dry and approaching their final demise. Bottles of bubbly are being prepped and placed on standby for the global celebration to happen next week for the new calendar’s arrival.
So I think it’s only fitting to follow convention here and offer up a few wise words in anticipation of suspected things to come in the wide world of Web [...]

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 [...]

An interesting yet thoroughly predictable finding resulting from a survey taken by the website Broadbandchoices.co.uk, as reported by the BBC today, is the overwhelming demand for fast and high-quality digital downloads of feature-length films.
Why interesting? Why predictable?
Well, clearly consumers wish to have their Web connections and cloud-based services provide easy access to great catalogues of titles of all genres, a la Netflix (albeit operated entirely over the Internet), as it would require one to perform fewer functions to enjoy items [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

What was originally generally known as Microsoft IPTV has had its label altered. It is now to be referred to as Mediaroom. Yep. Big news, huh?
In all seriousness, the announcement of Mediaroom is quite weighty, if only because Microsoft’s ties to content providers and distributors in the realm of IPTV are relationships with considerable value. Plus, with the name change come a few software updates, which include “in-home personal music and video sharing, dynamic picture-in-picture capabilities and digital terrestrial [...]