While it’s still unclear how many consumers will take a shine to new Ultra HD TVs, Sony is getting ready to launch the industry’s first 4K streaming service this summer using an encoding system from startup Eye IO to squeeze the video down for broadband delivery.
Owners of Sony’s Ultra HDTVs will soon be able to access 4K movies delivered to their sets via a Sony 4K media player (pictured above), which was first previewed at CES and launches this summer. To help make this possible, Sony Pictures is working with eyeIO.
upLynk, a streaming technology platform, was selected as one of four vendors essential for all digital media businesses in the 2013 Gartner Cool Vendors report. Gartner recognized upLynk for finding a practical solution to help broadcasters monetize their content with a simple workflow for streaming video online.
Disney’s ABC network will become the first broadcast network to stream its shows live online through an ongoing service, starting with viewers of its TV stations in New York and Philadelphia on May 14 and expanding to its other stations by the end of the summer.
Just in time for Tuesday’s fall-schedule announcement, ABC is introducing its long-rumored Watch ABC app for live-streaming TV shows. Viewers in New York and Philadelphia will be the first to have access to the service
This week, ABC is taking the fight against Aereo to the New York-based startup’s home turf: the network will start streaming its entire programming schedule in real-time to viewers in New York and Philadelphia. This marks the first time one of the major broadcasters has streamed a 24-hour live feed online.
This week, ABC is taking the fight against Aereo to the New York-based startup’s home turf: the network will start streaming its entire programming schedule in real-time to viewers in New York and Philadelphia.
ABC is debuting an app for viewers to watch live television on computers and mobile devices. ABC-owned and operated affiliates in New York and Philadelphia will begin live streaming of its shows and local programming on Tuesday
This week ABC will quietly revolutionize its app for iPhones and iPads with a button called “live.†Users around New York and Philadelphia will be able to live-stream all the programming from ABC’s local stations there, the first time that any major broadcaster has turned on such a technology.
It’s taken awhile, but Wall Street is now regarding Google’s deployment of Google Fiber in Kansas City with less animus and more admiration, predicting the new Internet and pay-TV play could be a headache for Time Warner Cable and AT&T U-verse, which both have irons in the K.C. fire, and even become “an economically attractive†[…]
Movieline, which started its life as a film and entertainment magazine popular with film critics before being relaunched as a website in 2009, is taking its digital presence a step further, kicking off a YouTube channel, featuring movie previews and reviews, as well as profiles of actors and breaking Hollywood news courtesy of partners Variety […]
I’m in the process of writing a check for my cable bill today, an ungodly large check for the service I get, and I’m including a note to whomever at Charter Communications reads these kinds of things. I’m unsubscribing. After three years on their books, I’m giving up on waiting for fast—as in consistently fast—Internet […]
More news this week that positions smart TVs as essential players in the over-the-top and multiscreen marketplace, as TDG released its report—The In-Home CE and Home Network Ecosystem – 2013—contending that one-quarter of U.S. households now own at least one smart TVs, up from just half of that in 2011. That news shouldn’t be too […]
So, whom do you know who doesn’t, at least occasionally, watch online video? After you call them in from the cave and introduce them to, oh, maybe Hulu and ABC.com, take a look at the findings from two reports for some insight into what it appears Madison Avenue finally is figuring out: online video is […]
These days, many want to suggest that cable TV offerings will be “killed†or “replaced†by content services being delivered over the Internet using content delivery networks.
