Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said this week that he thinks Netflix could have up to three times as many U.S. customers as the premium cable network HBO. The remarks were made in a presentation about the company’s business opportunity, which interestingly doesn’t mention DVDs at all. Read More »
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TV Everywhere is giving people access to content they are not actually paying for. I know, because I’m one of them. The question is whether that is stealing — and if it is, is there anything that cable companies can actually do about it? Read More »
Almost two years after HBO launched its on-demand streaming service HBO Go, the premium cable network has finally gotten the last two major holdouts to agree to offer it to their subscribers. The service will soon be available to 98 percent of all HBO subscribers. Read More »
The media world is changing, due to new devices from which viewers can access content and the ease of finding content on-demand. As a result, big media companies can no longer rely solely on the strength of their content to win out against alternative viewing options. Read More »
There had been some concern that Hulu would see some of its audience disappear due to Fox’s requirement for TV Everywhere-type authentication. But Hulu’s audience over the first few months of the new TV season has remained largely intact, and was actually up in October. Read More »
How’s that for a deal: Roku’s new entry-level set-top box is selling for just $49. That’s half the price of an Apple TV – but the company insists it’s still making money on every unit sold. Roku also announced the launch of an HBO Go app. … Read More »
Turner is going to launch dedicated apps for Google TV that offer access to full episodes of TNT and TBS shows, as long as viewers authenticate themselves as pay TV subscribers. The apps were briefly on the Android market last week, but have since been removed. Read More »
NBC made its full-length TV episodes available for free on its iPad app last week, but that doesn’t mean it won’t roll out TV Everywhere-type authentication on its digital streams. Digital head Vivi Zigler told us the network is definitely looking at authentication as a possibility. Read More »
The summer of 2011 was accompanied by a great web video pullback, as content owners lengthened distribution windows and demanded more from digital licensees. That’s caused some concern about the viability of the industry, but is probably a small road bump for the booming business. Read More »
There’s been a rash of speculation about which of Netflix’s competitors will bid for the streaming rights of TVs and movies from Starz. The most likely outcome, however, probably has the network keeping those rights to itself and making them part of its TV Everywhere play. Read More »
It’s been just a week since Fox instituted an eight-day delay for its shows online, and already people are heading to BitTorrent instead. According to TorrentFreak, the number of viewers downloading shows like MasterChef and Hell’s Kitchen has surged over the past few days. Read More »
We tried (unsuccessfully) to access Fox shows using its new authentication system on Hulu, getting hung up by the pay TV login that only works for Dish subscribers. Since Dish is the only distributor on board, everyone else’s experience will probably be similar to our own. Read More »
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