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As Chill Adds Hulu To Social Viewing Line-Up, How Important Is It To Watch TV With Others?

We all remember Sunday afternoons spent vegging out watching television, with the channel being viewed being chosen by the holder of...
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Netflix Adding Content For Impending U.K. Launch | Lionsgate and Miramax Deals Signed

Content is king, as we know all too well. Netflix knows this better than most, and is trying to secure a...
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Roku Heading For U.K. and Canada In 2012 | Low-Cost Streaming Set-Top Boxes On Way

Roku is heading international, with its set-top boxes becoming available to buy outside of the U.S. for the first time in...
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Netflix Saves ‘Arrested Development’ | Streaming Service Develops New Series For 2013

Arrested Development has a new home. At Netflix. The critically-acclaimed, award-winning show is returning for a new series of episodes in...
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Sony Considering Internet TV Offering To Rival Cable, But Will Media Companies Take The Bait

They way we consume media, be it television, movies, music, games, or news is changing. Rapidly. All thanks to the Internet....
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New YouTube Redesign Strengthens Google+ Integration, Slightly Tweaks Everything Else

YouTube is getting a makeover. Yes, another one. I know it only feels like a few months since the last one,...
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Tablets Top For Video Viewing As iPad Beats Android | Amazon Kindle Fire Could Disrupt

Tablets are growing in popularity, and with good reason. The Apple iPad is king right now, but Amazon is ready to...
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Logitech Bails On Google TV, Cites Failure Of Revue Set-Top Box As Reason For Profit Drop

Google TV is still waiting in the wings trying to find its market. Google will hang in there waiting for consumers...
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Games Consoles Most Popular Platform For Online Video Viewing On Television Sets In U.S.

In the U.S., and probably elsewhere in the world in the territories where gaming is popular, games consoles are the primary...
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Britain In A Day On Nov. 12 | BBC Documentary Will Use Video Clips Uploaded To YouTube

Life In A Day was a spectacularly well-made look at how different people around the world lived their lives on one...
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Hot XXX Action On Google TV | HTML5-Powered Streaming Vivid Entertainment Porn App

It’s a well-known fact that porn can make or break a platform. It’s why VHS succeeded over Betamax in the days...
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YouTube and Disney To Create Original Content

YouTube has managed to add another big name to its line-up of partners for its new channels full of original content....
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Glenn Beck Vs. The Young Turks | The Online Video Battle Of Political Commentators

The world of online video has become something of a political battleground, with Glenn Beck on one side and The Young...
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YouTube Leading The Way In Globalizing Online Video – 60% Of Views From Non-English Speakers

Good ol’ YouTube. You may be filled with one or two (million) more funny animal videos than is necessary but you’re...
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Zediva Is Dead After MPAA Gets Its Way | Hollywood Kills Another Internet Innovation

Another day, another innovative use of the Internet to deliver content to paying customers is killed by Hollywood. Because piracy is...
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Feature-Length YouTube Movie ‘Life In A Day’ Now Available To Watch For Free On YouTube

Life In A Day was always an ambitious project: to capture one day in the life of thousands of people. Did...
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SeeSaw Shuts After Criterion Funding Fails To Materialize | U.K. Streaming TV Service Dies

SeeSaw is no more, with the website now displaying a simple message saying, “Thanks for your support but SeeSaw is no...
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Hulu Adds The CW To Channel Line-Up | Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural

Hulu is busy expanding to new international markets and acquiring more content for its viewers. You wouldn’t think that until a...
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Original Programming Coming To YouTube | 100 Premium Channels With Big Budgets On Way

Not content with offering an alternative to broadcast television and cable channels, the Web is starting to mimic its longtime brother-in-arms....
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MPA Wins Legal Blockade Of Newzbin2 As Hollywood Once Again Wastes Time and Money

The MPA, Hollywood, and the entertainment industry as a whole have scored a victory of sorts over illegal file-sharing in the...
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Netflix Has A Bad Day & The Future Looks Dire

Wow. That is what you call a bad day at the stock exchange. Not for the traders who have probably still...
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Netflix Coming To UK and Ireland In 2012 | Going Head-To-Head With Amazon’s Lovefilm

Netflix is coming to the U.K. and Ireland. Finally. But it’ll face tough competition in what has become the gateway to...
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Steve Jobs Eyeing Apple Television Set Before Death | Integrated iCloud Apple TV Possible

Steve Jobs revealed some vague future plans for Apple before he passed away from pancreatic cancer earlier this month. Including a...
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Online Video Translastion Site ViKi Funded To The Tune Of $20 Million As Investors Pile In

When investors start stepping over each other to put their money into a company you know it’s on the way up....
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Mysterious Vdio Confirmed, But Is It Serious Competition For Netflix Or Just Another Joost?

Netflix appears to have a new competitor waiting in the wings ready to strike while the U.S. DVD and streaming giant...
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Sesame Street’s YouTube Channel Hacked To Show Hardcore Porn As The Muppets Go Bad

When a channel aimed entirely at young children is hacked to show wall-to-wall porn something has gone seriously awry. And I...
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The Top 10 Most Pirated Movies On BitTorrent Suggest Hollywood and MPAA Sorely Mistaken

Movie piracy is all bad, right? No good can come from it, right? If a movie makes it onto BitTorrent (as...
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Hulu Is No Longer For Sale As Disney, News Corps., Comcast, and Providence Backtrack

Were you hoping to buy Hulu and had a spare $2 billion plus lying around the house not doing anything? Then...
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Universal Cancels ‘Tower Heist’ Premium VOD Experiment After Boycott By Movie Theaters

Under pressure from exhibitors Universal Pictures has backed away from its plans to release Tower Heist as a VOD stream just...
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Hollywood Rolls Out ‘UltraViolet’ | A DRM Cloud Solution To Rival Apple iTunes and Save DVDs

Hollywood has finally realized the Internet is here to stay, digital content is here to stay, and piracy is here to...
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