While Comcast is busy herding online video behind its TV Everywhere walls, rival Cablevision plans to help viewers watch streaming video in the wild -- via the new PC to TV Media Relay hookup. Cablevision says the service allows customers to transfer anything (their italics) that displays on their PC monitors to that widescreen TV. "We are … [Read more...]
Wal-mart gets Vudu, online HD provider
Wal-Mart confirmed that it's buying Vudu, the online video pay-per-view service. The move puts the retail giant on the cutting edge of the streaming video space, where it'll compete with Amazon's Video on Demand and the iTunes Store. Wal-Mart also could choose to challenge Netflix, with its "free" Watch Instantly service, which comes with … [Read more...]
Olympics: the online agony of defeat
NBC remains in full retreat from live online coverage of the Winter Games from Vancouver, slashing the number of hours offered during the 2008 Summer Games by something like four-fifths. Meanwhile, Canadian broadcasters are boasting "every second of every competition" live on two web sites. Computer stuck here in the U.S.? Hope you're into … [Read more...]
YouTube brings in a new Net nanny
YouTube has managed to stay relatively family friendly, but it's no trouble finding a bad neighborhood or two. And so we have Safety Mode, just rolled out to users. Most nanny filters turn out lame -- blocking things like the name "Dick." (Yep, saw that one ****'d elsewhere today.) YouTube passed the Dick test, so perhaps this censor system has … [Read more...]
Watch Instantly reels in 300 indie titles
Netflix's streaming video service goes arthouse with the addition of 300 new indie and foreign titles, from the likes of the Criterion Collection and Kino Lorber. Other distributors announced as part of the Watch Instantly expansion into the indie arena include Gravitas Ventures, Music Box Films, Oscilloscope Laboratories and Regent … [Read more...]
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