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Published by Horrid on Wednesday, 1st September 2010
Napster 10m tracks among first Samsung TV apps
It was back in January that Samsung and Napster teamed up to tell us about offering Napster through internet connected TVs, at CES. Now they have got around to delivering it, only in the US for now. Virtually all new Samsung TVs in the US above 40 inches...
Published by Horrid on Friday, 27th August 2010
Netflix has movies, TV streamed for the iPhone – ahead of Apple
It’s been a long time coming but the Netflix App for the iPhone, out this week is bound to cause something of a stir in the US. The UK equivalent of Netflix, LoveFiLM might do well to copy it as soon as possible. First off it’s free, secondly...
Published by Horrid on Wednesday, 25th August 2010
DishOnline in Hulu tie-up, uses TV Everywhere placeshifting
Dish Network in the US has come out with something it calls DishOnline which is in fact more like three services all from one web page, maybe more if you count setting your DVR remotely. The first is that you can watch some programming online. The service...
Published by Horrid on Tuesday, 24th August 2010
TiVo side slider remote control goes on sales this weekend in the US
All you TiVo lovers out there, which right now means only people in the US, don’t forget to go out this week and buy your new TiVo remote control. It’s probably the last remote you will buy that has buttons on it, but what a plethora of...
Published by Horrid on Friday, 20th August 2010
Verizon has iPad TV app as dry run for the real thing
Verizon in the US has followed its AT&T rival with an iPad application that allows its FiOS TV programming to be seen on an iPad. The idea is that it is streamed in the home from the set top, and so the TV programs cannot be taken on the road. Of...
Published by Horrid on Thursday, 19th August 2010
UK youth culture squeezes 9 hours of media into 7 hours of the day
The UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) which regulates more or less all communications in the UK has put together a 379 page report, its largest to date, on the habits of UK consumers. It has automatically gone for the headlines by talking about the...
Published by Horrid on Wednesday, 18th August 2010
Apple iTV drum beating returns, but TV strategy remains unclear
Yet again a New York city financial analyst is beating the drum about the arrival of a new and better TV service from Apple, which he says is bound to be coming, called iTV (which we assume is short for iTunes TV). He is Gene Munster, analyst at financial...
Published by Horrid on Monday, 16th August 2010
Yahoo! UK soccer rights means you never miss a game, or its goals
It seems that Yahoo! in the UK is going to give online access to the highlights all of the soccer games in the Barclays Premier League. It has already signed up new advertisers in the shape of Adidas, Heineken, BT and Sony Pictures as a result and will...
Published by Horrid on Tuesday, 10th August 2010
U-Verse customers can get pay TV service on iPhone – sort of
It has always been just a matter of time before AT&T took its U-Verse content and brought it to the iPhone and of course the Apple iPad, and that has finally happened this week launching its U-Verse App on the App Store. For those who don’t know...
Published by Horrid on Monday, 9th August 2010
Sezmi jumps from LA launch to half US states with $5 a month cable service
US over the top TV service Sezmi signaled this week that it is ready for prime time business, and has been launched in 36 US TV markets for just $4.99 a month. Sezmi combines live TV, on-demand movies, Internet video, and DVR capabilities and is geared...














