Streaming Services Archive

  • Shazam Rolls Out New “Shazam Friends” Feature in Apple iOS and Android Apps

    Posted on March 22, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Netflix goes with Microsoft PlayReady DRM for upcoming streaming devices

    Netflix goes with Microsoft PlayReady DRM for upcoming streaming devices

    Posted on May 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
    Looks like Netflix has decided to go with Microsoft's PlayReady DRM for all upcoming Netflix-ready devices. If all goes according to plan you shouldn't even notice the DRM being there, but we all know how well DRM has worked in the past.

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  • Seagate adds Netflix, YouTube and more to the FreeAgent Theater+ media device

    Seagate adds Netflix, YouTube and more to the FreeAgent Theater+ media device

    Posted on April 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Seagate just made the already-potent FreeAgent Theater+ a bit more powerful. A firmware is now available that adds Netflix, YouTube, Medifly, and vTuner along with a host of small user-interface changes to the player. All users need to do is run the automated update if the device is connected to the Internet or download it from Seagate. Easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy.

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  • Charter Communications: All your streams are belong to us

    Charter Communications: All your streams are belong to us

    Posted on March 17, 2010 | No Comments
    A young man rang Charter Cable to cancel his cable TV connection and maintain his Internet connection. Why? Because cable TV is an anathema to this generation's vision of media consumption and/or it sucks. So he calls Charter and Charter informs him that he has to pay a $10 no-cable fee and he is told that soon Charter and the rest of the cable companies will control all streaming, thereby rendering all streaming media unusable after "May 1."

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  • TiVo will be offered by Virgin Media in UK later this year

    TiVo will be offered by Virgin Media in UK later this year

    Posted on March 11, 2010 | No Comments
    One of the three points I laid out as TiVo's keys to survival was to partner with more content providers. And just like that, Virigin Media announced it will be offering TiVo set-top boxes to its 3.8 million subscribers sometime this year. This move, along with the Conax partnership, makes TiVo a major player in the European DVR market. See, I told you the company didn't deserve the deathwatch label.

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  • Boxee to launch payment system

    Boxee to launch payment system

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Boxee has just announced their new Payment Platform, a system to offer pay-per-view and subscription content to paying customers. Boxee expects to take a small percentage of the payment – under 30% – for the service. This would in turn enable services like PayTV and a la carte media downloads, an important part of Boxee’s monetization [...]

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  • Qik Bumps Up The Recording Resolution For The Droid

    Qik Bumps Up The Recording Resolution For The Droid

    Posted on November 10, 2009 | No Comments
    As the number of Android-powered handsets on the market continues to expand, so do the technical capabilities of the applications that run on the platform. The Droid, for example, is the first handset to introduce video recording at a resolution 720x480 (more than double that of the 320x240 recording found on most other handsets), and app makers are already swooping in to take advantage of it. The first off the bat is the mobile video broadcasting service Qik, who will later tonight be announcing beta support for the increased resolution.

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  • Livestation partners with weComm to deliver live TV news on all smartphones

    Livestation partners with weComm to deliver live TV news on all smartphones

    Posted on August 7, 2009 | No Comments
    LONDON, 7th August 2009 – weComm, the leader in interactive mobile data solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Livestation to deliver live TV news to mobile handsets including Android and BlackBerry devices. Livestation already delivers high quality live TV streaming services on iPhone for...

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