Online retail giant Amazon has launched a new streaming video app for Sony’s PlayStation 3 game console, the company announced today.
As part of the agreement between Sony and Amazon, the Amazon Instant Video App will be prominently featured on …
Streaming video service Hulu has finally launched its Hulu Plus app on a handful of tablets that run Android OS, the company announced today on its blog.
The app is available for free in the Google Play store, but users …
Netflix has taken another drastic step in distinguishing its DVD-by-mail rental business from its unlimited streaming video service.
Some customers are reporting that they are no longer able to rate and review movies and DVD shows on the main Netflix …
Using Comcast’s Xfinity TV app on Xbox Live won’t count against data caps for those that subscribe to Comcast’s internet service, according to the company’s Frequently Asked Questions page.
The Comcast App, which launches today along with HBO Go, is …
Netflix customers will soon be able to stream high-definition versions of movies and TV shows on their iPad, the company said via Twitter yesterday.
Netflix subscribers have been waiting for an update ever since news broke about Apple’s third-generation iPad, …
Satellite television provider DirecTV today rolled out an iPad app update that allows subscribers to stream movies anywhere.
The company added streaming functionality to its iPad app last fall, but subscribers were restricted to watching their programs on the same …
Netflix has inked a deal with horror director Eli Roth to create Hemlock Grove, an original series about “murder, mystery, and monsters,” the company announced today.
Hemlock Grove will join other original content being created by Netflix to help …
Ever heard of Drama Fever? Cool, me neither. Turns out the New York startup has 1.5 million viewers, three times what they had in March of 2011. Each month these folks spend many hours and up to $10 a pop …
Hulu rolled out a huge update to its website user interface today, increasing the size of its video player by 55 percent.
The updated look makes a lot of sense since Hulu’s number one draw is current season TV shows …
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Streaming video content on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and several others have significantly grown over the past year, leaving people with a wide selection to choose from. Unfortunately, you have to sift through each service to find what’s available.
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Amazon has inked a licensing deal with Discovery Communications that will bring popular Discovery Channel, TLC, and Animal Planet titles to its Prime Instant Video service.
Prime Instant Video is a subset of the company’s video streaming, rental, and download …
I’m sitting in my office (by which I mean my kitchen) watching Rachel Ray on my iPad and Kathy Lee on my laptop. These aren’t clips or day or old episodes. It’s live programming that’s streaming to me via Aereo, …
Retail giant Walmart announced its exclusive in-store disk-to-digital service powered by Vudu today, which will allow people to play DVD movies they buy on more devices.
This is the first time a retailer is offering a way for people to …
Aereo, the New York startup that is building a new system for streaming and recoding live TV, is countersuing the big TV networks that filed a lawsuit against it at the beginning of this month. The company, which is backed …
The largest cable TV and Internet service provider Comcast said it has no interest in partnering with video rental service Netflix, the company told trade publication Fierce Cable yesterday.
It’s hardly surprising that Comcast isn’t interested in an alliance with …
Amazon may soon jump head first into creating its own original TV series content, that will presumably be exclusive to the company’s Prime streaming video service.
The reason for the speculation comes from the job title of new executive Joe …
Incumbent industries have a history of challenging new technologies that disrupt the established way they do business. For example, AT&T sued to keep everything from the answering machine to the Hush-A-Phone out of the market. Yesterday’s news that all the …
Apple has big plans to launch a streaming TV service by Christmas, and of course the rumor mill is already running wild on when it will sell an actual TV. But first Apple will need to clear a hurdle: Getting …
HBO has added support for its HBO Go streaming service to Xbox 360, giving gamers yet another reason not to turn off their console to watch television shows.
The news was announced last night at an Xbox 360 event by …
When streaming video service Vimeo launched brand-new Android and Windows Phone applications in early January, the company teased that it was also working on a major update for iOS so it could support the iPad. Now that wait is finally …
