Best Buy has officially rolled out its “Insignia” house-brand line of TiVo-equipped TVs. These isn’t quite the same TiVo, though: This TiVo isn’t capable of recording anything. Sounds pretty dumb, right?
Dumb like a fox.
You’re basically getting a nicely-outfitted TV (LED backlighting, 1080p resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, two-year …
According to Hulu’s official customer support Twitter account, the online VoD company is considering augmenting its current ad-supported free and subscription models with “a higher priced ad-free option.”
As reported by GigaOM, @hulu_support repeatedly tweeted that the company was “currently an ad supported service but are looking …
Logitech is taking a beating for throwing early support behind Google TV. The company announced that it will cut the price of its Logitech Revue Google TV box to $99, which means each unit will be sold at a loss. And just in case there was any question of whether Google TV was a flop, Logitech offered an embarrassing statistic: The Revue …
When the Motion Picture Association of America filed a lawsuit against file-sharing website Hotfile earlier this year, it would’ve expected a defense. What it might not have expected was that the defense would claim that movie studios are using anti-piracy tools to remove content that they don’t even own.
Video is becoming more and more important to U.S. Internet users, with the use of video-sharing sites like YouTube and Vimeo up 5% compared with last year, according to a new study.
The study, from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life project, revealed that video-sharing site usage has risen to 71% of online Americans …
According to a letter to shareholders released yesterday, Netflix is finally going to launch an app to integrate itself with Facebook…in Latin America and Canada. Why is the U.S. missing out? That would be because of the Video Privacy Protection Act.
The VPPA – passed in 1988, following an alt-weekly’s publishing of Supreme Court …
Retail giant Walmart is putting its recent purchase of VUDU to work with the full integration of the service’s on-demand movie and TV show offerings on the Walmart.com website.
Aside from offering a 99-cent “Movie of the Day,” the service seems similar to on-demand offerings from the likes of Amazon and others. New-release rentals go …
It’s the report that, literally, people didn’t want you to see. A study on the effects of movie piracy sites on their users and the industry at large has been reportedly been locked away “in the poison cupboard” because it suggested that conventional wisdom had it all wrong—pirates actually ended up spending more money on movie …
As Netflix’s price rise continues to cause grumbling amongst subscribers, is Amazon about to try and become the new hub for Video on Demand content? The online giant today announced a new deal with CBS Corp. that makes 2,000 episodes of 18 different series – including Star Trek, Cheers and The Tudors – freely available to Amazon Prime …
For those who believe that using the BitTorrent protocol for piracy is a young person’s game, you might want to know about a San Francisco woman risking a potential $150,000 fine for torrenting porn.
She’s 70 years old, you see.
Of course, she claims to not even know what BitTorrent is, but who can believe the word of a thief? …
With Netflix’s subscription cost increases apparently pricing it outside of some people’s budget, the BBC must be hoping that more audiences plan to move their online viewing to Facebook.
Following Warner Bros.’ trials with renting movies through the social network, BBC Worldwide today begins offering episodes of Doctor Who for 48 …
Mad at Netflix over the recently-announced price hike? You’re not alone. To recap, here’s what’s happening:
On September 1, Netflix will do away with its combination DVD-by-mail and instant streaming offering, currently available for as low as $10 per month which includes one DVD out at a time and unlimited streaming.
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