"streaming" articles

TV-based Internet video receivers and connected consumer electronics platforms will drive transactional revenues for premium Internet video services past $6 billion -- U.S. consumers will spend over $6 billion for Internet video services by 2013, with direct-to-TV videos accounting for 75% of that revenue, according to Parks Associates’ Internet Video: Direct-to-Consumer Services (Second Edition). This new report finds that greater ownership of connected game consoles, networked...

Belkin is really leading the charge for cable replacement solutions. They were (I believe) the first company to put out a wireless USB hub for your desktop, intending to eliminate the cumbersome cabling between your PC and peripherals. This product uses the WiMedia ultra-wideband wireless solution. Belkin has unveiled its FlyWire wireless HDMI accessory . The company says that it will enable multi-room streaming of content from AV receivers, set-top boxes, game consoles, Blu-ray...

File this under "I'll believe it when I see it." Time Warner Cable's President and Chief Executive Officer Glenn Britt said yeterday at the Sanford C. Berstein & Co. Strategic Decisions Conference that we can expect to see cable operators offering wireless residential gateways (technically, Britt called them "wireless cable modems") that not only enable in the in-home networking features, but also allow for services like Web video to be streamed to TVs. I suppose...

Users of broadband connected TiVos will be able to download Disney movies directly to their PVRs using the CinemaNow service. This will be available later this year, apparently. Among the major studios, Disney has really led the way with electronic delivery of its movie content. It was the first studio to sign with Apple's iTunes, and CEO Robert Iger reported in March that Disney had sold four million movie movie downloads through iTunes since they started in 2006. By my rough...

And news today that Verizon will be offering a subscription Internet video service from Starz. The company plans to offer a video download service from Starz Entertainment that provides on-demand access to first-run movies, independent films and other original programming for a monthly subscription fee of $5.99.The Starz Play service offers a limited catalog of about 1,000 movies -- including "Spider-Man 3," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" and...

In late March, there was a rumor going around that Netflix was working with Microsoft to enable the Watch Now streaming video feature through the Xbox 360. Although that still remains a rumor, Netflix did make another public announcement today that continues its push to place broadband video at the TV. Today, Roku introduced the Netflix Player by Roku, a device that enables Netflix subscribers to instantly stream a growing library of movies and TV episodes from Netflix directly to...