"OTT" articles

In yesterday's Wall Street Journal , Christopher Lawton says that the television experience is about to take a cue from what's been happening with connected game consoles. Both Microsoft and Sony will be launching social networking features that can be accessed through their online gaming services. We tested a number of social-networking-at-the-TV-features in our TV 2.0: The Consumer Perspective report and found that the ability by users to share recorded content with friends and...

Our TV 2.0: The Consumer Perspective study found that certain social-networking-at-the-TV features have good appeal with consumers. Recall the post from earlier today, where I noted that sharing DVR content with and having "most-watched" lists available are two of the most-desired features. Verizon's FiOS TV service has now implemented a most-watched feature with the FiOS TV 1.6 IMG upgrade. Their "What's Hot on FiOS" feature that shows the top-five shows being...

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...

What we had written about in a March blog has apparently come to fruition. The streaming content from Netflix's Instant Queue online video service will be available to Xbox 360 users this fall, Netflix and Microsoft reported at the E3 show in Los Angeles. The service, expected to launch as a software upgrade for the Xbox 360, will be offered at no additional cost to Netflix subscribers who also hold Xbox 360 Live Gold memberships.

When you work with bleeding edge technologies, you tend to lose a lot of blood. Who of us hasn't had a frustrating experience with a new device that promised to make our life simpler (albeit via a very complicated path). Well today I wanted to share a good experience. I spent much of the past two weeks on the road which (predictably) included about 15 hours in flight delays. In my ill-prepared haste, I had left without a book, DVD, iPod or other means of mobile entertainment. As I...