Boxee Totally Removes PC Software From Site, Here Are Some Alternatives
Boxee had already announced that they were going to to stop supporting the computer application, available for PC, Mac and Linux, they had made. But they never mentioned they were going to completely remove it from their site, yet, that is exactly what they've now done. Boxee is now focusing solely on the Boxee Box ...
LG Hedging Its Bets With Two Connected TV Platforms
LG would not be where they are if they had always placed all their eggs in one basket and that was never more evident than it was when I visited with them at CES. Aside from a stunning, and I mean stunning OLED TV they're working on, they also had not one, but two, connected TV ...
Greed & The Crumbling Dream Of A Video Promised Land
Danny Sullivan is a pretty smart dude. If you're not familiar with him, it probably means you haven't dabbled much in SEO. And when he wrote yesterday about paying Rupert Murdoch three times for the same piece of content, it really got me fired up. Because he's right--seriously, you should go read his rant at ...
The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Web Series Edition
This week's online video news was dominated by web series talk. For instance, we have a retrospective on the BMW web series, The Hire, which was way ahead of its time. We also have some articles about a new Tom Hanks web series, the future of branded video content from Coke, and a story about ...
Sony CES 2012 Press Conference: New Video Related Product Lineup
It's CES people and time to bring the RAIN! As in a downpour of awesome announcements on cool new tech, services and everything connected. What's been the big thing so far for me? Well the Sony press conference promised one login for everything and that my friends, is the holy grail of attention getters in ...
Cord Cutting Is Real? 20% Of Consumers Have Cut Cable Or Are Considering
Cord cutting is dead some say. Others think it a passing fad and that there's no staying power. Yet in the annual State of the Media Democracy report, Deloitte reports that some 20% of consumers have or are thinking about it. With the upswell of connected TVs I expect to see at CES, I bet ...
Google TV Marketplace Turns YouTube Into TV - The Reel Web #21
This week on the Reel Web we cover a story about a patent that Google recently updated about a marketplace for Google TV. The Google TV Marketplace will feature channel apps, possibly from YouTube, and may even be bundled together as a network for a premium fee. We share some of the implications of this ...
Preview of Google TV Hardware Partners at CES 2012
So I will be away at CES next week (if you are going, drop me an email to meet up) and I have been putting some predictions together on what would be shown and one of those was an explosion of new species in the Google TV arena. Lo' and behold, the Google TV itself ...
Google TV To Get Channel Marketplace & Compete With Cable Providers?
Google TV looks to be on the verge of creating an app marketplace specifically for video channels much like Boxee and Roku have. In a recently updated patent (20110321072) they describe a system that, "...allows content providers to create channels of video content and make them available to users in a marketplace. Users can search ...
Motorola Mobility Acquires TV & Film Directory Service SetJam
Motorola Mobility, who is still being picked up by Google, is picking up SetJam. It's like one of those Matroyshka Doll sets right now. The Google deal with Motorola Mobility is still in review by everyone involved but that's not stopping them from grabbing up some complimentary services.
Google TV Tips And Tricks To Get The Most Out Of The Experience
I just saw a post called 10 Tips and Tricks for Google TV that I thought held some interesting stuff in it and I wanted to share it. They are calling some of it 'pro tips' but I'm guessing it might be more to it than that. I'm already 90% certain that there will be massive ...
The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - The Sucky Edition
Well, YouTube can't redesign every week, and they did that last week... so this week's online video news cycle belonged to some of the other players for once. We had several bits of rumor and speculation on the future of Netflix, Google Plus' beefed up Hangouts capabilities, Twitter's redesign which leaves a prominent place for ...
The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - The 'Even More YouTube News' Edition
Just over a week ago, YouTube completely and radically changed their layout and overall site design. But if you thought the big changes and announcements were done for a while, you were wrong, because YouTube spent this week pushing out several more changes like a brand new Video Manager, new premium content channels, and the ...
Video Gadget Gift Giving Guide - The Chris Edition
It fell to me to do a video gadgetry gift guide. Since I dabble in all things consumer electronics, I figured, why not? I'm going to break it up into price ranges because some of us aren't millionaires but we all have video gadget needs, right? Heck, I'd probably be happy to receive most of ...
The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Thanksgiving Edition
Plenty of news in the world of online video this past week, though many of us probably found ourselves distracted by things like family interaction, football games, and turkey. Because we were all a little more distracted than normal, it's an even better idea to catch up on the latest news, opinions, articles, and tips ...
