Thursday, January 02, 2014
An In-Depth Look At OTT And Live TV For 2014
Roku, for its part, managed to add a Time Warner Cable TV app, YouTube on Roku 3, WatchESPN (live access to ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, ESPN Deportes and ESPNEWS), and WATCH Disney Channel, WATCH Disney Junior and WATCH Disney XD. However, some of those require authentication (proof that you get those channels through a pay-TV subscription). Roku currently supports over 1,000 channels and back in August was the most used OTT set-top device (according to Parks Associates, vs. Appl ...read more
Monday, August 29, 2011
Cable Companies Lose Customers To Online Video, But Cord Cutting Still A Long Way Off
Parks Associates reported that 13% of consumers have done some cord pruning, snipping off branch services and overall monthly bills in lieu of online services, with another 9% ready to do so. They say around 3.9 million Internet viewers are in the mix there.
The Parks Associates report stated that providers should improve their on demand offerings. Frankly, Time Warner Cable has a pretty good one. Much of what I can watch on Hulu shows up there as well, but not all of it. So ...read more