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The Xbox 360 division at Microsoft does not feel in any way threatened by the rise of cloud-based computers like the recently revealed OnLive and Gaikai, believing that the current distribution model, focused on disk-based releases and downloadable content, will be central for the coming years.Jerry Johnson, who is t... |
2 November 2009
13:11 GMT |
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PS3 Media Server is, as its name suggests, a multimedia server that is designed to interface with the PlayStation 3 gaming console. You install it on a computer that is on the same network with the PS3 and, thanks to the Digital Living Network Alliance-compliant Universal Plug and Play support in both the console and... |
30 October 2009
11:05 GMT |
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After a year of rumors related to both the Nintendo Wii and the PlayStation 3, it was finally confirmed that the Netflix streaming service would be launched on the Sony home console. And, now, Steve Swasey, who is the vice president for corporate communication at Netflix, has described in some more detail how the ser... |
28 October 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Akamai Technologies has confirmed it will be the exclusive live video streaming provider to Turner Sports for the official PGA Championship application available on the App Store. Held between August 13-16, the 91st PGA Championship will have 18 hours of television coverage on TNT complemented by four video streams o... |
10 August 2009
11:00 GMT |
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VLC Media Player is one of the most popular applications that have been recently updated to the 1.0 version, and now a new flavor has been released to users. VLC Media Player 1.0.1 comes with a series of improvements and bug fixes, including translation updates, fixes for Qt and MacOS interface or codec updates for M... |
29 July 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Microsoft seems to be committed to releasing a new music streaming service and one of the targeted platforms is said to be the Xbox 360 home gaming console. The company has begun to talk about the new service and the planned launch date is somewhere in late July.Peter Bale, who is an executive producer for the softwa... |
16 July 2009
02:52 GMT |
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A new survey from The Leading Question research firm has revealed that more young people are purchasing music downloads rather than procuring them from illegal sites. For the first time 19 percent of music fans are purchasing music legally compared to the 17 percent that download it from illegal file sharing sites. T... |
13 July 2009
06:07 GMT |
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Netflix was hugely successful when it arrived on the Xbox 360 gaming consoles from Microsoft as part of the New Xbox Experience updated. Until now, more than 1 million subscribers have used it to watch at least one rental movie on a console initially designed to focus on videogames. And it seems that Netflix is activ... |
26 June 2009
16:41 GMT |
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OTOY, the ready-to-come server-side rendering service, which comes as a powerful solution that can stream complex 3D games to a personal computer via any browser will soon become available on any browser-enabled device, meaning that smartphone users will also be able to enjoy its capabilities. According to the compan... |
23 June 2009
10:24 GMT |
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Hulu Labs has released Hulu Desktop, a "lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer," as the developers explain. The software features a sleek interface that has been optimized for use with Apple or Windows Media Center remote controls, "allowing you to navigate Hulu's entire library with just six bu... |
29 May 2009
08:17 GMT |
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Kirk Kelsey, the developer of Understudy, has updated his Google code page with a tiny, but exciting piece of information. The Front Row plug-in that is Understudy now ensures that preferences load properly for first time users, but best of all, is in line to get YouTube support this month.The Google code page where ... |
2 March 2009
10:08 GMT |
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Developer Kirk Kelsey has released a cool plug-in for Mac users and Front Row fans, enabling them to stream video from the likes of Hulu and Netflix through the Front Row interface of Mac OS X Leopard.According to the official description over at Google code (Google is simply doing the hosting), Understudy allows acc... |
19 February 2009
06:52 GMT |
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Sad news for boxee users – the folks delivering this wonderful piece of software to you have announced that support for Hulu has been discontinued. boxee is touted as an application able to provide a true entertainment experience delivering TV shows, movies, music and photos, as well as streaming content from v... |
19 February 2009
03:58 GMT |
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Jailbroken users rejoice! Developer Nick Z has set up this site that allows you to stream movies and TV shows to your iPhone for free! The site also features an upload section, where folks can upload their own movies and TV shows.“Introducing LuckyVidz! A new site that allows you to stream movies and tv shows t... |
10 February 2009
09:40 GMT |
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Microsoft, as the maker of the Xbox 360, and Netflix, one of the biggest providers of video on demand on a variety of platforms, are announcing that the Netflix Xbox Live application, which allows those who bought the console to watch movies streamed directly to the gaming device, has been downloaded, installed and a... |
6 February 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Netflix announced last month the release of its long-awaited media player for the Macintosh. Until recently, only a select number of users have been able to test out the benefits of the service. From now on, however, Netflix is finally allowing Mac owners everywhere to access its “Watch Instantly&rdqu... |
3 November 2008
09:27 GMT |
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A Blu-ray player that can, at the same time, stream movies from an online movie-rental service? Now that's an expensive device, one might think, which won't arrive on the market anytime soon. Well, actually, it would seem that the cost of such a product won't be that exaggerated. As a matter of fact, y... |
23 October 2008
04:03 GMT |
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Skinners has released a cool TV and Radio streaming app for Max OS X simply called Livestation. The application is free to download and install on your Intel-based Mac. As soon as you've fired it up, just create an account (e-mail address required) and you're good to go.The Livestation player can receive a ... |
29 August 2008
09:48 GMT |
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The concept of streaming HD signals (both audio and video) without using any wires is not exactly a very new one, since several of the most important manufacturers of various connectivity solutions have come up with such products over the past couple of years. And the latest such announcement comes from Belkin, which... |
11 July 2008
01:49 GMT |
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iPhone / iPod touch owners definitely get to have it their way today, with another application aimed at users of Apple portables being released for download. OrbLive "plays live TV, Internet TV, and webcams on your iPhone or iPod Touch" using the Orb streaming application that you have to install on your computer. Tw... |
14 May 2008
06:32 GMT |
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Media server streaming devices have quite started to show up on the market recently, and each addition seems to bring more and more nifty features to the home-theater PC enthusiast. Most of the media servers are wired devices, that will add an extra layer of cables under the living-room rug, but this is where Mvix�... |
1 March 2008
06:25 GMT |
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The rumored and sometimes confirmed, sometimes laughed at, coming of live video on Google's video sharing service has finally had a pin stuck in it. It won't float around anymore, because there's no point in speculating about something everybody knows is going to happen.Live streaming has been a life-l... |
29 February 2008
13:46 GMT |
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Streaming media centers may seem a little too much for the average user, but a true home-theater PC enthusiast will surely appreciate the new offering from Conceptronic: the Media Giant media server. The system is a fully-featured network high-definition media player with a built-in hard-disk recorder.The Media Giant... |
29 February 2008
03:32 GMT |
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Sources on the Internet have revealed that the Mac version of BBC iPlayer will be launched this year. The new application will enable Mac users not only to stream, but also to download TV content from the Internet, and watch it at their leisure. BBC found that the iPlayer was having a significant effect on the web TV... |
8 February 2008
08:30 GMT |
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It's actually a wonder people not in the loop have heard of it. The beta launch was announced just briefly, in a post on Yahoo!'s Technology Development Group's head, Bradley Horowitz's blog that had… three words: 'Live is live,' he said, and nothing more. For those waiting for it, the n... |
8 February 2008
04:08 GMT |
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Almost 160 thousand downloads per day on average were recorded by the BBC site ever since it launched its video-on-demand service on Christmas day. Doing the math (22 days multiplied by 160 thousand downloads makes.. I need a calculator for this one… there it is, more than 3.5 million) you'll see that it was wil... |
16 January 2008
03:16 GMT |
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If you're going to watch the video I embedded (and you will or else you wouldn't be reading this), you're going to catch the tone of the answer Chad Hurley, one of the co-founders of YouTube, gave when asked whether his company was working on streaming video. "We're working on a lot of interesting... |
10 January 2008
17:06 GMT |
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The possibility of streaming TV programs from a signal source (satellite receiver, set-top cable receiver, DVR, etc.) to a computer is what made the Sling Media products famous, as they allow users to turn their computers (or just about any computer, for that matter) into an extension of their television set. However... |
7 January 2008
02:11 GMT |
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The possibility of streaming multimedia content from a computer running iTunes to a HDTV set is what made the Apple TV famous, but the design originating in the Cupertino labs has some very serious flaws, which have prevented it to enjoy a reasonably high level of success. However, it would seem that Archos has learn... |
4 January 2008
15:26 GMT |
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The Internet has become one of the world's most important means of delivering various types of multimedia content and this is the reason why a very large number of users tend to keep said content stored on their computers' HDDs. And in order to facilitate the playback of said files onto other devices from t... |
13 November 2007
07:31 GMT |
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Multimedia hubs are becoming increasingly popular nowadays, as the need to set up a centralized control unit for all the multimedia devices in one's home entertainment center becomes direr. And this is exactly the reason why the people over at Monsoon have come up with the HAVA Titanium HD, a device that support... |
8 November 2007
08:11 GMT |
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The world we live in is increasingly hooked on HD, but, unfortunately, we rarely have the time to watch our favorite TV shows exactly when they're aired, simply because we're not at home at the respective moment. Enter SlingMedia's Slingbox SOLO, a specially designed new Slingbox that can connect to a ... |
28 September 2007
10:06 GMT |
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As the methods of multimedia content delivery have diversified and multiplied quite a lot over the past few years, more and more consumers are looking for certain devices that are capable of taking advantage of all these sources and that's exactly what the people from D-Link and DivX are planning to do, since th... |
3 September 2007
13:16 GMT |
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A new type of protection for streaming digital content has just been developed by the Norway-based Secustream Technologies - it defends it from hackers, second by second.It's called SecuShow and it's being demonstrated this week in stand 1.529 in Amsterdam at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC20... |
30 August 2007
07:43 GMT |
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London-based company weComm announced it has come up with a new way of delivering full-scale applications on mobile handsets. Instead of the usual way of running applications by downloading a program on the mobile device, weComm's wave3 platform can stream entire applications, including content, on demand from a... |
30 July 2007
09:40 GMT |
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Well, the ever-lasting waiting for Apple TVs is approaching its end, the much-anticipated set top box should arrive any day now. This is probably the week the first Apple TV shipment will take place. Sing with joy, pre-ordering customers!This event has triggered a new wave of analysis and commenting, of course. The A... |
13 March 2007
10:54 GMT |
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Most deaf people from the US would prefer to communicate via sign language, and up until now this was impossible over the mobile networks, because the bandwidth that was available meant the video was too low as quality for someone to accurately depict the arm, finger or face movements. US researchers are now attempti... |
1 March 2007
10:04 GMT |
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