"streaming" articles
My wife and I were both traveling over the past week - me internationally, her domestically. We both missed Chuck on Monday night, March 30. We've both become pretty addicted to this show.
Upon our return, we started playing the episode from the DVR. However, due to some unknown glitch, the program only recorded for 15 minutes. So, I booted up my laptop and we watched the episode from Hulu.
Only after the program finished online did I discover that Chuck has been added to the...
For background, the BBC in the U.K. gets the vast majority of its revenues from a mandatory £142 television license that citizens must pay annually. If you own a TV, you pay the license fee.
Apparently, however, the BBC Trust is very concerned that a large number of people who only watch BBC programming online (via the iPlayer) may be exempt from paying this fee. They want to close the loophole that allows this.
As I departed London yesterday, I picked up a copy of The Times and...
NCAA March Madness is underway, and while I’m not a sports fan, I am interested in digital media strategies of traditional media companies particularly from an ad-focused research perspective. And it looks like CBS is making a play for mobile.
In partnership with Apple, CBS has created an iPhone application featuring mobile video streams of NCAA March Madness basketball games. While AT&T and Verizon mobile customers have access to the March Madness games via a $15 per month...
If The Wall Street Journal starts running "Peanuts," it wouldn't shock me. After all, the paper has added a sports section , which is a pretty interesting read.
Today's paper discusses the 11-year, $6 billion deal that CBS made with the NCAA to air the men's basketball tournament, noting that CBS was smart enough to get the rights to air content on new media platforms such as mobile phones and the Internet (in addition to distribution deals wtih DirecTV and CBS College...
Verizon has released the Hub, which looks to be an enhancement to the 'Verizon One Communications Center' and a good example of fixed-mobile communications convergence in the telco space. The Wall Street Journal provided a write-up on this today.
The new home phone, called the Hub, aims to retain existing landline customers and attract other carriers' customers, the company said. The phone will deliver streaming video services and work with Verizon Wireless text messaging and...
Macrovision had several announcements from last week, including:
It introduced its next generation Interactive Program Guide (IPG) that can help consumers enable access to broadcast, personal and premium content from one screen. This next-generation IPG is being developed under the project name “Neon" and is aimed at the consumer electronics industry.
Neon features include:
* Rich program descriptors and cover art for TV shows
* A personalized TV...
In making a case for long-form online ad formats, Hulu released data showing that 88% of current Hulu viewers would opt-in to a long-form two-minute advertisement in order to avoid ads during the rest of the program. The study suggests that consumers don’t mind ads. They do however prefer being given a choice of ad content that is personally relevant. The findings also suggest that high opt-in rates are directly correlated to increased ad engagement.
While reflecting on Hulu’s...
Chalk up yet one more connected CE platform for Netflix Watch Insantly Internet video content. The two companies have announced that they're teaming up to provide TiVo® Series3, TiVo HD, and TiVo HD XL subscribers the ability to stream 12,000 movies and TV episodes.
If you're keeping track at home, here are the announced devices that support Watch Instantly features at the TV:
* Samsung BD-P2550 and BD-P2500 Blu-ray players;
* LG BD300 Network Blu-ray Disc Player;
*...
