Verizon to Offer Vice Mobile Content to Internet TV Users 17 July 2015

  For better promotion of its upcoming Internet TV platform, Verizon Communications Inc. has signed a multi-year content licensing agreement with Vice Media for a range of Vice digital content, including its original domestic and international programming produced exclusively for Verizon. … Continue reading

TV Streamer Gets Huge Victory on Road to Compulsory License to Broadcast Networks 17 July 2015

  The major television networks were hit with a legal earthquake on Thursday when a federal judge issued a shocking ruling by declaring that the video on demand streaming  company FilmOn was potentially entitled to a compulsory license of broadcasters’ … Continue reading

Star TV and Eros lead race to head off Netflix threat in India 17 July 2015

  Rupert Murdoch’s Star TV and Bollywood studio Eros International are leading a race to become the “Netflix of India” by pushing to launch new video on demand streaming services, in a bid to head off the expected entry of … Continue reading

TV’s Detour: Waves of Disruption 16 July 2015

  The TV industry is constantly going through change. Focusing just on the last 20 years or so, we’ve seen several waves of disruption: Boxes: TiVo, Slingbox and others allowed viewers to take the content they traditionally had to consume … Continue reading

Netflix’s CEO just revealed the most important issue for Internet TV 16 July 2015

  Netflix executives dished insights on the company, and the emerging internet TV industry during a post-earnings call. Netflix has no immediate plans to raise prices for U.S. subscribers, and will instead seek to lift profits by encouraging customers to … Continue reading

BBC Looks The Other Way While Internet Takes Over 16 July 2015

  This fear of change is nothing new. The BBC has a long history of invoking the national interest when its entitlement is challenged, only to awake later, and find that it has been reinvigorated by adaptation. Today, the BBC … Continue reading

Comcast, EA games partner for streaming video experience on your TV 16 July 2015

  The cable conglomerate announced on Tuesday “Xfinity Games” — the company’s latest online video on demand feature for its X1 set-top box platform. It will allow customers to stream certain Electronic Arts (EA, Tech30) titles directly to their TV … Continue reading

Cable TV Disconnect, Smart TV and Consumer Choice 16 July 2015

  Cable television systems thumbed noses at Senator John McCain’s call a couple of years ago for unbundled content options, but consumers have responded to a wider marketplace of real-time choices and technologies. Live streaming server remain one of the main … Continue reading