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How Much Will You Have to Pay for Hulu? Nothing. How Much Will You Pay for...
Is Hulu putting up a pay wall around its Web TV site? Nope. Does Hulu want to charge people to watch Web TV? Yes. Confused? Don’t be. It’s pretty straightforward: Hulu, the joint venture between News...
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Exclusive Xbox 360-Netflix Partnership Not So Exclusive Anymore
“This exclusive partnership offers you the ability to instantly stream movies and TV episodes from Netflix to the television via Xbox 360. Xbox 360 will be the only game console to offer this...
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Comcast Won't Talk About NBCU, Will Talk About Internet Video
Wall Street has been displeased with Comcast (CMCSA) since news of its interest in NBC Universal broke in late September, and the company didn’t do much to mollify investors today: Executives refused...
View ArticleDigital Video Recorders, Microsoft Money on the Mac and Droid
Twenty years ago I could buy a VCR to record TV programs off the airwaves. Is there an analogous device, using digital recording instead of videotape, that doesn’t require a subscription, monthly fees...
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The Jay Leno Effect: Eyeballs Bail on Broadcast for Cable
When you sit down to watch TV at night (which you are still doing an awful lot of, no matter how much Web time you’re logging), you don’t distinguish between shows that are on broadcast TV and those on...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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...
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