By Sean P. Aune |
Amazon has given the greenlight to its first original children’s series pilot, Sara Solves It. It seems Amazon is wasting no time when it comes to getting its original shows into production. While six pilots are already in the casting phase, Amazon announced last month…
By Sean P. Aune |
Customers of Time Warner Cable got a huge reason to go out and pick up a Roku this week as the little black box will now act as a cable receiver for any TV. Roku announced on Tuesday that customers of Time Warner Cable can…
By Brandon Russell |
Reuters on Wednesday reported that Apple’s Tim Cook met with Beats CEO Jimmy Lovine about a potential music-streaming partnership. The two allegedly got together last month in Los Angeles to discuss Beats’ upcoming Project Daisy, which is yet another subscription-based service promising to change the…
By Sean P. Aune |
Fans of streaming media devices from Roku get ready, an all new experience has arrived in the form of Roku 3. Roku took to its company blog tonight to announce that the Roku 3 is ready to hit the market. The latest iteration of the…
By Brandon Russell |
Another report claims Google is readying a subscription-based music streaming service, but this one is a little different. According to Fortune, in addition to the service being tied to Google’s Android music platform, the company is also looking to capitalize on the popularity of YouTube by…
By Sean P. Aune |
Once again the future of Hulu is uncertain as Disney and News Corp. both look to the future and want to take different paths. While Hulu ended 2012 on a high note when it comes to subscribers and revenue, it seems that two of the three…
By Brandon Russell |
Pandora on Wednesday announced non-paying mobile users will get cut off at 40 hours because of apparent licensing costs. In a post on the company’s blog, Tim Westergren, Pandora founder, said the company will begin asking mobile users who exceed that 40 hour mark to…
By Sean P. Aune |
Amazon has struck once again and has scooped up the online streaming rights to two hit FX series, The Shield and Justified. It appears that Amazon is going a different route than say Netflix and instead of trying to secure the entire catalog of a…
By Sean P. Aune |
Nielsen, the company responsible for figuring out which TV shows are viewed the most, has confirmed it will begin monitoring non-traditional viewing mediums such as gaming consoles and smart TVs. Since 1950, Nielsen has been responsible for monitoring which TV shows are most popular in…
By Todd Haselton |
Netflix released a new version of its iOS application for the iPhone, iPod and iPad on Thursday that provides better content control. The company promises a better playback experience, in addition to a new ability to see the title of whatever you’re watching in the…
By Sean P. Aune |
Amazon and CBS announced today that the two companies will be expanding the existing relationship to encompass more content on Amazon’s streaming service. Following up news earlier in the week that Amazon would be the exclusive streaming home for the upcoming CBS mini-series Under the…
By Sean P. Aune |
Netflix is expanding its original programming offerings to include children’s shows beginning this december with Turbo F.A.S.T. Building off its streaming content deal announced back in Sept. 2011, Dreamworks Animation and Netflix announced today a new joint venture called Turbo: F.A.S.T. (Fast Action Stunt Team) based off…
By Brandon Russell |
As expected, you can now watch HBO content on your Apple TV, though you’ll need an iOS device to do so. HBO reached out to confirm that, during the All Things D: Dive Into Media conference today, Erik Kessler, President and COO of HBO, confirmed that…
By Brandon Russell |
Every single company wants to dominate the living room—smart TVs, set top boxes and video game consoles are all example of how one might achieve that—and Intel is seemingly no different. During an AllThingsD conference today, Intel’s media boss Erik Huggers confirmed the company will…
By Sean P. Aune |
Amazon has announced that it will be the exclusive streaming and download provider for the upcoming Stephen King television series, Under the Dome. In a bold move by Amazon, it has secured exclusive online video rights from CBS to the upcoming Under the Dome mini-series based…
By Sean P. Aune |
It appears that Amazon isn’t going to be pulling any punches with making the slew of upcoming pilots as appealing as possible to viewers. Amazon is sparing no expense when it comes to casting its upcoming comedy pilots. John Goodman, known for a slew of…
By Brandon Russell |
Redbox Instant hasn’t done all that much to position itself as a sure alternative to something like Netflix, but it’s still in early days. It’ll grow, it’ll get better. It’ll also join up with the Xbox 360 as the “exclusive console launch partner,” according to…
By Sean P. Aune |
Amazon has announced a line-up of five children’s shows that will be receiving pilots for the public to vote on. In Dec. of last year Amazon announced six pilots were being produced that would then be shown to the public to decide which ones would…
By Sean P. Aune |
Amazon announced today that it will be the exclusive home for Downton Abbey for some time to come. Chances are if you aren’t hooked on Downton Abbey that you’ve at least heard of it. The BBC series has taken the United States by storm and…
By Sean P. Aune |
House of Cards, a new Kevin Spacey series based on a British series of the same name, has finally made its debut on Netflix. Over a year since its original announcement in 2011, the first season of House of Cards has debuted on Netflix. As…
By Brandon Russell |
Bloomberg reports that Apple is in negotiations to bring HBO Go to to the Apple TV, further strengthening the company’s favorite hobby against the competition. If talks go well, the iPhone maker could introduce the service to its platform as soon as this summer. Currently…
By Roy Choi |
Apple usually has a certain process when it comes to upholding its “veil of secrecy” and usually files Federal Communications Commission (FCC) required material the day of major announcements. Which is why this FCC filing, published Tuesday, seems a bit of a deviation from standard…
By Todd Haselton |
It’s the model we wish cable providers would adopt: we want to watch TV, but we don’t see the need to pay for every single channel if we only watch a handful. YouTube clearly knows there’s interest in this form of content delivery and is…
By Sean P. Aune |
In the heels of iOS 6.1 being released, the Apple TV has also received a nifty update that brings a few new features with it. It had been rumored for some time that an update for the Apple TV was on its way, and it…
