"streaming" articles
TZero Technologies looks to be one company to watch in the UWB for consumer electronics space. The company fell of the UWB radar a couple of years ago when the former CEO decided to take the company's development toward "no-new-wires" solutions for the service provider space. However, in a market that is already heavily leaning toward HomePNA, MoCA, or powerline (mostly in Europe), this wasn't attainable. So, the company brought back Dr. Rajeev Krisnamoorthy as its CEO, got some...
Last week, Paramount Digital Entertainment (PDE) recruited two Hollywood producers, Alexandra Milchan and David van Eyssen, to create feature-length films for distribution on the internet and presumably mobile platforms.
Upon reading the news, the first question in my mind was: “What is Paramount thinking?” As if reading my thoughts, I found a quote from Thomas Lesinski, PDE’s president, discussing large amount of experimentation with content length online and how people flock...
Another good CNET article referencing Roku CEO Anthony Wood's comments that he'd like to allow the Roku box to bring streamed video to the TV from multiple sources and not just Netflix, as is the case today. Wired Magazine has a few more details on these comments. For $100, if I can access the Netflix Watch Instantly collection, plus get access to current and archived television shows (and I did get intrigued with old episodes of Battlestar Galactica on a recent trip when I...
Netflix announced today that its Instant Queue service will now feature select content from both CBS and Disney-ABC. The CBS content will include C SI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, NCIS , and Numb3rs . The Disney-ABC content will include Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place , and Disney Channel's newest original series, The Suite Life on Deck .
Netflix Instant Queue content is or will soon be available for direct view at the TV via the following devices:
The Netflix...
I'd written about both Comcast and Time Warner Cable's experiements with day-and-date video-on-demand in previous posts, so it was interesting to see a recent article with some more data from Time Warner. Executive Vice President and CFO John Martin said that their trials show that DVD sales aren't hurt and the VoD take-rates are significantly increased. Martin says that VoD buy rates were up more than 50 percent, while DVD sell-through increased 10 percent.
On September 3, Amazon announced that its Unbox video download service was being replaced with Amazon Video On Demand. A big difference between the two services is that Amazon Video on Demand now includes streaming ad-supported movies and TV shows (Unbox was purely a transactional business). Content can be viewed within a Web browser instead of just through the Unbox player (although downloaded content will still be viewed with this). The service has also expanded beyond PCs and TiVo...
It's been a banner year for networked TV introductions, and we have another manufacturer on the board. Mitsubishi has announced a Living Fit TV line that uses the Amimon WDHI solution to wirelessly link an HDTV receiver to an LCD panel. This product will be available in the Japanese market. This TV win is apparently the second for the WHDI technology, which will also be used in the Sharp X Series televisions, also available to the Japanese market.
With the Mitsubishi introduction, I...
Eric Kim from Intel's Digital Home Group today unveiled an application framework called the Widget Channel. It will bring structured Internet applications and content to the television, using widgets. The solution uses Yahoo's Widget Engine and core libraries, and brings many services to the TV, including content from Blockbuster, Disney-ABC, CBS Interactive, Cinequest, Joost, and Showtime.
Kim also unveiled the Intel Media Processor CE 3100 (formerly codenamed "Canmore"),...
