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SyncTV | Is It The Viable Alternative To Apple iTunes and Amazon Unbox That We Hoped?

The online television market is growing daily, and new companies are entering the fray regularly, some of which are copycats, and...
Michael Garrett
2 min read

NBC Shifts Video Content To Amazon Unbox

NBC recently announced that it has chosen Amazon over the almighty Apple and will be migrating their digital video content to...
Tanya
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Stripping DRM From BBC iPlayer, Amazon Unbox, Zune, Walmart Downloads

Over at the doom9 forums they are discussing the program Fairuse4WM program that strips any media file that plays on Microsoft’s...
Brent Evans
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Amazon Unbox | Now Delivering Directly to your TiVo Box

Internet TV and web based video streaming is gaining popularity daily, and you know it’s closer to mainstream take-off when big...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

LoveFilm Becomes Amazon Prime Instant Video In The UK, With £79 Adding A Raft Of Extras

LoveFilm is no more, being rebranded as Amazon Prime Instant Video and being folded into the existing Amazon Prime service. Most...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Amazon Developing Zombieland TV Series | Do We Even Need Television Networks Any More?

Amazon has taken on the episodic version of Zombieland in order to add to its Instant Video lineup. Which further cements...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Amazon Studios Chooses First Four Television Shows For Series Development Slate

Amazon Studios has selected the first four shows it wants to develop further as part of its quest to create original...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Amazon Producing Original Content | Amazon Studios Seeking Show Ideas For Instant Video

Amazon is the latest streaming media company to pledge its desire to begin producing its own original content. I can’t help...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Amazon Adds Viacom To Prime Instant Video But Isn’t Planning Standalone Netflix Rival

Watch out, Netflix, you have (more) competition. And this time it’s in the shape of Amazon. Offering streaming video as part...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

New Kindle Fire Tablet Will Do Wonders For Amazon Instant Video And Content Consumption

With the unveiling of its first tablet, the Kindle Fire, Amazon has done more than just deal a serious blow to...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Amazon Adds Fox Content To Amazon Prime Streaming Service As Netflix Rivalry Hots Up

With Netflix still recovering from its recent woes, there is a window of opportunity open and waiting for a serious competitor...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Amazon Instant Video Boasts Of 100k Streaming Titles But It Can’t Rival Netflix… Just Yet

Amazon Instant Video now boasts 100,000 titles to rent. But that makes it more of a threat to iTunes than Netflix,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Spotify May Add Movies To The Music | Is Hollywood Starting To Accept Streaming Video?

Spotify has indirectly denied reports it’s planning to launch a movie streaming service to go with its music streaming service. But...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Amazon Confirms Free Streaming Movies For Prime Members – Should Netflix Be Worried?

As predicted last month, Amazon has entered the streaming video business with an offering exclusively to Amazon Prime members. The question...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Redbox Confirms Online Video Streaming Subscription Plans, But When & With Who?

Redbox is planning to launch its own online video streaming subscription service. Definitely. But the details, the when and the who...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Amazon Prime Members Gain Free Unlimited Streaming Of 5,000 VOD Movies & TV Shows

Netflix has seen incredible growth in its business over the past couple of years as it evolves from a DVD-by-mail company...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Google Starts Google TV Promotional Push

Google TV is almost upon us, with the first hardware due in the U.S. in time for the holiday season. Thankfully,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Best Buy Launches CinemaNow Online Video Store Against iTunes, Amazon, Wal-Mart

By the end of May, Best Buy will be offering movies for sale and rental over the Internet under the CinemaNow...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

One In Eight Americans To Cut The Cord In 2010 As Web Video Replaces Need For Pay TV

The number of people cutting the cord in the U.S. this year is set to increase massively thanks to the emergence...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Video Rentals Store Opens For Business | Mainstream Films Join Indie Flicks

YouTube has now officially opened its video rental store, with mainstream offerings joining the independent, documentary, and Bollywood films already available....
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Cord Cutters Increasing In Number | 800,000 U.S. Households Now Only Watching Online TV

In the U.S. at least, online video offers a viable enough alternative to broadcast television that people are cutting the cord...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

TiVo Premiere Combines TV With Online Video Content From Blockbuster, Netflix, YouTube

The TiVo Premiere is being released this weekend, promising to bring TiVo bang up-to-date and integrate Internet TV programming to a...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Video Rentals Service Expanded | More Content Providers Join Google’s Beta

YouTube looks to be expanding its video rental service despite only mild success with the experiment with Sundance film festival offerings...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Amazon Disc+ On Demand – Free Streaming Movie With Every DVD Could Be The Future

Amazon Disc+ On Demand could be a key weapon in the movie industry’s fight to stop everyone switching from physical to...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

MovieClips Beta Launches | 12,000 Short, Free, Legal Movie Clips But Still Only In America

Hollywood continues to be bullish about its approach to online video. MovieClips has managed to license content from six major Hollywood...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Joss Whedon Talks ‘Dr. Horrible 2’ | Sing-Along Blog Success Shows Future Of Web Video

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is a Web series turned short film that has turned heads by being a truly phenomenal success....
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Analyst: YouTube Movie Rentals To Be $1 Billion Business | Google To Outdo iTunes?

If Google started streaming movies on YouTube for a fee, could it make money, serious money at that? A financial analyst...
Dave Parrack
1 min read