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TV Is Changing Before Our Eyes
TV image copyright antpkr It’s finally happening. The Internet is taking over TV. It’s just happening differently than many of us imagined. There are two major transformations under way: The Rise of...
View ArticleComcast Bringing Live TV to Your iPad (In Your House)
Here’s a logical, and cool, marriage between your iPad and your TV, brokered by Comcast: The cable company says it will let subscribers stream live TV to their tablets later this year. The catch here...
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Does the FCC Want to Kill Hulu?
One of Washington’s proposed conditions on the Comcast-NBC U deal will force the merged company to offer NBC’s shows to any Web competitor. So what does that mean for Hulu, which has already locked up...
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Apple to Dominate Tablet Market Until 2012–At Least
In 2011 tablet revenues will rise to $24.9 billion, and by 2012 they’ll reach $34.1 billion. And Apple will claim the lion’s share of both, according to J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz. Which isn’t...
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Netflix Adds More Disney/ABC Shows–But Not the Ones You Missed Last Night
Here’s the latest addition to the Netflix streaming video catalog: More TV shows from Disney and its ABC network. But don’t expect to use Netflix to watch shows that aired last night, or even in the...
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Google's 42nd Acquisition of the Year: Widevine
Back in January, Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicted the company would make one acquisition a month. Now with the year nearly finished, the company has made 41–including Phonetic Arts, whose purchase it...
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Cablevision Complains (Very Quietly) About News Corp.'s Web Blackout
Over the weekend, News Corp. briefly pulled down Fox shows from Cablevision customers’ Web browsers. That’s an unprecedented move in the ongoing fight between cable providers, broadcasters and networks...
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News Corp. Shuts Off Hulu Access to Cablevision Customers–And Turns It Back...
UPDATE: That was fast. People familiar with the situation say that News Corp. is changing tactics and will turn on access to Fox.com and Fox programming on Hulu for Cablevision’s customers. This could...
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Hulu's "Modern Family" Problem
Hulu’s pitch to viewers: We have all the great network TV shows you want to watch, for free. The pitch for Hulu Plus: Pay us $9.95 a month and you can watch even more episodes of those same shows. But...
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Hulu's Subscription Service Could Come Next Week–For Some of You
Some of you may finally get a chance to pay for Hulu. The video Web site is finalizing plans to launch its subscription service, and people familiar with the company say a beta test of “Hulu Plus”...
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The TV Guide Is Dead, Right? Not at the Los Angeles Times.
Two articles of faith among the digerati: Print editions of newspapers are going, going, gone. TV may not be going anywhere. But it will get a lot better when we can use the Web to find our favorite...
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Sure, the iPad Is Cool. But Have You Played With Dell's "Streak"?
Has Apple’s iPad (AAPL) won the tablet wars before they even started? Maybe. But before you leap to that conclusion, best to see what everyone else has to offer, too. I’ve heard anecdotal reports from...
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The iPad Will Be Great for Free and Cheap TV Shows. But Not This Weekend.
So now we know what to expect when the iPad appears Saturday: A really cool device that will be great for watching TV shows. Here’s one thing you shouldn’t look for: Lots of cheap or free TV shows–at...
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New TiVo Mixes TV and Internet, but Falls Short
TiVo is the most famous third-party set-top box for your TV. The company popularized the idea of digital video recording and, in recent years, also has added to its devices the ability to deliver some...
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YouTube and Viacom Find Lots of Emails, but No Smoking Gun
The YouTube-Viacom documents released today are chock full of interesting morsels. Feel free to ignore most of them. Because if you’re trying to handicap the way the copyright lawsuit pans out, today’s...
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Want to Chatter About Chatter About the Oscars?
Who’s going to clean up at the Oscars on Sunday? If you’re the kind of person who is frantic with anticipation…you’re probably not reading this. But you may still end up watching the awards or find...
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Vudu Convinces Walmart to Pay Up: Why an Also-Ran Web Movie Service Sold for...
As I wrote in January, Walmart is indeed interested in buying Vudu, the online movie service. I was off about one thing, though–the price. Walmart (WMT) will be paying more than $100 million for the...
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Apple to Test Dollar TV Show Downloads
As Apple prepares for the official launch of the iPad, the company is pushing television networks to lower the price of TV episodes. People familiar with the talks tell the Financial Times that the...
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How to Cram Most of the Web Into One Super Bowl Ad–And Not Sell TVs
Yep, Google did indeed take out its first Super Bowl ad last night–a tweaked version of the “Search Stories” clip it has been showing on the Web for several months. But Google also got a second...
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Stern Ditching Sirius for Terrestrial?
Is Howard Stern going to return to terrestrial radio? That seems highly unlikely given his obvious affinity for the…permissiveness of satellite. But the radio show host isn’t above threatening to...
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