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Various sources have claimed that video game streaming service OnLive could also move into the movie space and challenge Netflix, forcing the leader of the company to set the record straight and say that his company was focusing on video games and does not currently have the resources to also take on the movie market... |
13 December 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Sony, the company which manufactures the PlayStation family of gaming devices and publishes video games for them, has launched a new and interesting bundle on the United Kingdom market, integrating a PlayStation 2 gaming console in a new 22 inch, 720p capable Bravia television set.
The Sony KDL22PX300 is said to b... |
6 December 2010
17:41 GMT |
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OnLive, the company which aims to introduce the idea of streaming to the video games world, has announced that it will be introducing, starting with January 14, a new plan named the PlayPack, which will cost just 9.99 dollars for one month and will allow gamers to buy access to all high profile titles that come to th... |
6 December 2010
15:11 GMT |
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According to a new study, people listen to as many streamed music as they do to their downloaded tracks in the US. The number of people streaming their music is on the rise and will overtake those listening to downloaded songs in the short-term future.The study by NPD Group shows that, while listening to downloads ha... |
12 November 2010
10:48 GMT |
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Ever since Intel released its WiDi technology, wireless video streaming become one of the hottest topics in the computer business, all sort of companies announcing similar technologies, Iogear being the latest to do so with its Wireless HD Computer to TV Kit.Much like its competitors before it Iogear uses the same ty... |
26 October 2010
08:32 GMT |
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Modern cars are evolving a lot faster that we might have expected a few years ago, the most advanced vehicles providing a very advanced level of connectivity and compliance with all sorts of third-party products, one of the coolest developments is this field we've come across lately being the Media Interface Plu... |
18 October 2010
02:03 GMT |
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The founder of games on demand service Gaikai has declared that he wants it to go live at some point during December of this year, with no beta period before the official launch date and with a host of partners that will deliver the most important title of the moment.Talking to VG247 at the GDC Online event in Austin... |
11 October 2010
15:01 GMT |
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OnLive, the cloud based, on demand video game service, has announced that it is renouncing membership fees for all users, making it cheaper to stream titles and potentially expanding the number of gamers who are interested in signing up.The official OnLive blog has a message from Steve Perlman, the founder, saying &l... |
6 October 2010
02:50 GMT |
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Coming to supply end-users with a set-top box capable of streaming all sorts of web videos and music, Oregan Networks has just announced the impending availability of the Onyx STB, whose feature set includes more than just TV service.Set-top boxes have been selling in droves, especially now that their array of capab... |
20 September 2010
09:20 GMT |
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NetworkGlobal Companies, a producer of online video, has announced that its NGB.tv video library can be streamed to Apple’s the iPhone and iPad, via the free NetworkGlobal app. The company has produced the first-ever official live mobile video stream of the 2010 UN General Assembly.The new service provides view... |
20 September 2010
08:35 GMT |
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With HDTVs gaining more and more PC-like capabilities, it was just a matter of time before they were granted the ability to stream from online sources, and Panasonic has just announced that, in addition to its Blu-ray players, its VIERA HDTVs now have access to Netflix.The range of electronics featuring the VIERA Ca... |
10 September 2010
08:58 GMT |
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In a move that may seriously affect Apple’s potential plans for a cloud-based iTunes, UK retailer PC World has launched an iPad Media Streaming service designed in collaboration with Livedrive, allowing iPad owners to store 100GB of data online. As simple as it sounds, after activating the iPad Media Streaming... |
6 September 2010
07:59 GMT |
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Plex Inc. has released Plex for iOS, a $5 app that allows users to effortlessly connect to their favorite local and online content including iTunes, iPhoto and Aperture, all updated and presented seamlessly on the screen of an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.Plex for iOS is a remote Plex client that connects to the Plex ... |
31 August 2010
07:18 GMT |
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Internet has begun to be integrated into many types of electronics, and set-top boxes have definitely evolved into hybrids by adopting such connectivity, to the point where analysts are actually predicting that these devices, as they bring a new set of services to TVs, will grow in popularity very quickly.The Intern... |
14 August 2010
07:14 GMT |
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Hulu Plus, a subscription based, iOS-version of Hulu’s service is now available for free download from the iTunes App Store. The Hulu Plus application is capable of streaming hundreds of current and classic TV shows to any iOS device. Subscription costs $9.99 a month.“Stream thousands of episodes from hun... |
30 June 2010
09:58 GMT |
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Industry watchers are expecting Apple to launch a web-based version of iTunes, following the acquisition, and now the closing of Lala.com, a service that enabled its subscribes to upload their music libraries and access the songs through a Web browser on an array of devices. Lala.com offered its subscribers the abil... |
2 June 2010
05:06 GMT |
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Hulu, the popular video-streaming service, is set to concentrate on a dedicated iPad app, not an optimized website, to deliver video to Apple iPad users, reports say. Hulu reportedly posted an article on its official blog on Thursday, in which the company’s Vice President of Product stated that Hulu was not emb... |
14 May 2010
06:16 GMT |
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It has been confirmed that Lala.com, an online music service acquired by Apple in 2009, is now shutting down, a move fueling speculation that the Mac maker is on track to launching its own web-based music-streaming service – iTunes.com. Lala itself has announced the closure on its website, saying it would shut ... |
4 May 2010
04:02 GMT |
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Gaikai is one of those services that see the future as being cloud computing-powered and tries to bring videogames into that future, the gamer being able to play any title without actually buying any physical media or installing any videogame on the local machine. Now, Dave Perry, the public face of Gaikai, showed ho... |
3 May 2010
17:51 GMT |
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Yesterday, April 12th, Andrew Gillis announced the launch of VortexBox 1.3, a Fedora-based operating system. The new release brings bugfixes and some features. VortexBox 1.3 includes a new version of the SqueezeBox Server app and the Subsonic graphical user interface, which allows users to manage their music collecti... |
13 April 2010
04:37 GMT |
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In a report by the New York Times posted on March 31, 2010, Hulu’s Chief Executive, Jason Kilar, is quoted on a couple of aspects regarding the company’s future content-distribution plans. Those, according to the report, include an iPad application, in what would be Hulu putting out feelers to see if the ... |
1 April 2010
06:07 GMT |
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Mobile-software developer VISIARC and the Symbian Foundation have recently announced the launch of a new software solution for the users of Symbian-based mobile phones, the Mobile Documents. The new solution comes as a unique, subscription-based, streaming email application for these handsets, and includes appealing ... |
25 March 2010
03:57 GMT |
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Simplify Media, the creator of several iPhone applications, has posted “an important announcement” on its blog, revealing the company’s plans to move in a new direction. Leaving the iPhone platform behind, the company has cleared its agenda of the applications it has developed for the iPhone OS and,... |
17 March 2010
10:59 GMT |
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OnLive, the cloud-based videogame streaming service that has been in development for more than one year, announced at a GDC press conference that it planned to have an official launch on June 17 in the United States, on both the PC and the Mac. Registrations for those interested are open now for a priority list that ... |
11 March 2010
13:01 GMT |
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The latest App Store tip from Apple concerns the use of the HTTP Live Streaming protocol in iPhone apps that access the cellular network to deliver video streaming. The Mac maker stresses that HTTP Live Streaming poses key benefits like the ability to dynamically adjust to varying network-bandwidth conditions. As suc... |
11 February 2010
03:38 GMT |
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The Knocking Live Video app is the first iPhone app capable of streaming live video over 3G and WiFi connections. It was personally approved by Apple’s CEO earlier this month, thanks to its innovative features. The app’s developers have just announced a major update, one that adds improvements in video qu... |
30 December 2009
04:15 GMT |
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Using the handy iPhone Dev Center section designated for developer news and announcements, the company behind the Mac operating system has posted a stub informing iPhone developers that HTTP Live Stream Technology is required for live TV streaming. The technology can be leveraged starting with iPhone OS 3.0. Currentl... |
15 December 2009
04:12 GMT |
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On some fronts, it is believed Apple spent as much as $80 million on the recently closed Lala deal. However, others firmly uphold Lala was, in fact, purchased for $17 million by Apple. With the music-streaming company holding around $14M in cash at the time of the acquisition, reports suggest, the Mac maker supposedl... |
8 December 2009
02:59 GMT |
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Reports have emerged this weekend with talk of Apple acquiring Palo Alto startup Lala. The service partially resembles iTunes (in the way users purchase music), but instead of downloading tracks, users stream them to their Internet-capable devices for just ten cents a track. The songs are stored on the “cloud&r... |
7 December 2009
06:06 GMT |
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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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