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BBC Challenging iTunes This Autumn With Online Pay TV Service 28 July 2015
The new VoD service, BBC Store, will let you buy and download individual shows or BBC series like Doctor Who. Facing the most hostile media landscape in recent memory, with the rise of Netflix, falling numbers of licence fee … Continue reading
Netflix’s TV Box Designs By TESTGARAGE Are Insane 27 July 2015
If you ask Netflix-founder Reed Hastings about the future of television, he’s got some marked answers for you: NBC and CBS are useless, classic television with its predetermined time slots has had its day. And the rising number of … Continue reading
Studios Sue MovieTube Websites For Illegal Streaming And Downloads 27 July 2015
The six major studios have gone after a group of nearly 30 or more online video on demand streaming and download sites operated under the name MovieTube. Disney, Paramount, Sony/Columbia, Universal, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros on Friday … Continue reading
Verizon’s Upcoming Video Service Has A Truly Terrible Name 27 July 2015
Verizon seems to be nearing the launch of its long-in-the-works internet video on demand streaming service, and now Variety has given us the name: it’ll be called Go90. That’s some absolutely horrid, nonsensical branding, but the actual product doesn’t sound … Continue reading
YouTube Video Subscriptions: Why They’re Going to Be a Very Hard Sell 27 July 2015
Google’s YouTube, looking to squeeze new coin from the millions of free videos on the service, aims to launch a subscription-based VOD service later in 2015 that will strip out all ads. But there are many reasons to be skeptical … Continue reading
Cisco Selling TV Set-Top Business For $600 Million 24 July 2015
Cisco is selling its TV set-top business for about $600 million, essentially unwinding one of its biggest acquisitions, and taking another step away from consumer products. The San Jose networking company announced late Wednesday night that Technicolor is buying its … Continue reading
Netflix Poised to Capture More TV Viewing Time 24 July 2015
Netflix has fundamentally changed how some people watch television, and that may eventually allow the company to raise its prices. By releasing shows a season at a time instead of doling them out week by week, the streaming leader … Continue reading
EU Opens Antitrust Case Against Major U.S. Studios and Sky UK 24 July 2015
Along with the proliferation of online video on demand services and pressure to make movies available for download sooner, Hollywood studios are facing a new challenge to decades-old business practices: European regulators. The European Union’s top antitrust authority on Thursday charged … Continue reading
New government report shows the state of Australian piracy 23 July 2015
A report conducted by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s office, in conjunction with the UK Government, has revealed the staggering scope of Australia’s online piracy. The survey of 2630 people found that 26 per cent of all Australians had consumed … Continue reading
Twitter And Video-On-Demand – Shifting The TV Balance of Power? 23 July 2015
In April, David Lynch took to Twitter to announce that he was not going to direct the new Twin Peaks TV series. He couldn’t negotiate the right money with Showtime, the network funding its production. Fans were in uproar. … Continue reading
