"TV Everywhere" articles

Cox Communications has officially launched its TV Everywhere service,  TV Online . TV Online offers free shows, movies and other video content from broadcast, cable and networks to Cox's video subscribers via the company's online Web portal. The TV Online content requires no additional equipment but does need a Flash-supported browser, a Cox user ID and password, and a broadband connection for viewing content anywhere across the United States. TV Online features shows from...

Warner Bros. home entertainment announced that it has agreed to buy Flixster . Warner Bros. is hoping this acquisition will help consumers organize and discover their favorite movies with the applications on their computers, phones and other devices. The acquisition also includes Rotten Tomatoes, a popular movie review and news site. Warner Bros. is seeing DVD sales shrink annually as movie fans start to seek out their favorite movies on digital services. To help stop the...

According to Parks Associates’ new report TV Everywhere: Growth, Solutions, and Strategies ,  TV Everywhere services will be available to 81% of U.S. and Canadian pay-TV subscribers through their current service provider by mid-2011. U.S. TV service providers in particular have moved aggressively as consumer data show multiscreen services can help reduce churn and attract younger subscribers. Nearly 40% of U.S. broadband consumers ages 18-34 find TV Everywhere...

Parks Associates announced a new design for its company website www.parksassociates.com and its hosted events. The new site features improved navigation, better search functionality, and an integrated Newsroom with convenient access to white papers, Webcasts, newsletters, analyst blogs, and industry reports. This new website streamlines access to current industry data and analyst insight on such topics as social gaming, digital music, and TV Everywhere,” said Tricia Parks,...

Although our report Television Services: Global Outlook (2nd Edition) cited a few international examples of "TV Everywhere" services incorporating live streams (CJ HelloVision in South Korea is the most prominent), we hadn't found one U.S. operator deploying such a service. However, Time Warner Cable yesterday launched TWCable, an app for the iPad that allows subscribers to stream a number of live cable channels to the tablet computer. Our research - including the...

More significant headlines from this week: Hulu considers a strategy shift - becomes an online cable company? The Wall Street Journal had a very good article yesterday on the internal workings at Hulu. Among some of the inside conversations taking place: News Corp. (Fox) and Disney (ABC) are considering pulling free content from the site and offering more fee-based on-demand programming to other sites. Also, some at Hulu are considering turning the site into a "virtual...

It's the Monday after CES, so in addition to resting our sore feet, we're now starting to pull our thoughts together about some of the key takeaways from the show. From what I saw, I think that there were several items worth noting: More Connected TV Manufacturers Opening Up Apps to Third Parties: LG (Smart TV) and Panasonic (VIERA Connect) joined Samsung in supporting third-party application development for their connected TVs. We know that access to premium video such...

For Comcast customers, the concept of TV Everywhere took another step towards reality as Comcast announced the release of its Xfinity TV app for the iPad. The current app will allow you to use your iPad to search TV listings, change channels, and remotely schedule your DVR. By December, iPadders (or is it iPaddies?) will be able to watch pre-recorded video content on the iPad. Moves such as this one reinforce the opinion of many TV service providers that the iPad is the next...