Xbox Users Clocking More Hours Gobbling Media Than Gaming Online
Microsoft’s Xbox is no longer just for hardcore gamers, but rather is beginning to attract a more general audience looking to consume movies, TV and music online. The Redmond, Wash.-based company said...
View ArticleReed Hastings Is Just Like You -- He Complains About the Cable Guys on Facebook
Last fall, Reed Hastings took to Facebook to field his customers’ complaints. Now he’s using Facebook to complain to Comcast. Here’s a screenshot of the Netflix CEO’s most recent post, where he gripes...
View ArticleReed Hastings Goes After Comcast, Again, on Facebook. Again.
Two weeks after Reed Hastings called out Comcast, using his personal Facebook account to vent at the cable company, the Netflix CEO is at it again. Today’s blast is similar to last month’s in both form...
View ArticleHBO Ignores Internet Geniuses, Sells More HBO
We all agree that it would be awesome if HBO would let us subscribe to the pay-TV service without paying for TV, via the Web. And many of us agree that HBO will eventually do that, one day. Maybe. For...
View ArticleWhy You Can't Watch the Best Show on HBO on HBO Go
“Hard Knocks” doesn’t have dwarves or dragons or naked (female) breasts. But it’s one of HBO’s best shows: If you love football, you know this already. If you don’t, you may be surprised to learn it’s...
View ArticleExclusive: Synacor to Offer TV Everywhere Authentication Via Social IDs
Synacor, the behind-the-scenes tech company that provides authentication services to television companies, will be launching a new identification platform for pay-TV services that will allow users to...
View ArticleTop HBO Digital Exec Alison Moore Hired to Run NBCU's DailyCandy
NBCUniversal’s digital unit has hired well-regarded HBO exec Alison Moore to be EVP and GM for its women-focused online property DailyCandy. The move is an interesting one for Moore, who has been a...
View ArticleNetflix Has Plenty of Competitors, and None of Them Are Close
Netflix has plenty of competitors selling streaming video on the Web. So far, none of them are remotely close to challenging Reed Hastings and company. That’s a reasonable conclusion to draw from a new...
View ArticleAll I Want for Christmas Is My Apple TV
Coming into 2012, with rumors and theories running wild, we all hoped for a new Apple TV in time for Christmas. While we did get spades of new tablets from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Samsung and...
View ArticleSunday's Super Bowl Means Lena Dunham Today
Attention, fans of Colin Kaepernick and Lena Dunham!* Now you don’t have to fret on Sunday, when the Super Bowl and the newest episode of “Girls” were set to collide: A clever stunt from HBO will let...
View ArticleHBO Go Is Coming to Apple TV. Why Isn't Everything Coming to Apple TV?
As Bloomberg reports, sometime this year, Apple TV users will be able to watch HBO shows — if they’re already subscribing to HBO via a pay-cable provider. In other words, HBO will port its popular HBO...
View ArticleHBO to Finally Let Subscribers Stream HBO Go to TV Over AirPlay
HBO said on Tuesday that, at long last, its subscribers will be able to stream programming from an iPhone or iPad onto their television via AirPlay. Speaking at our D: Dive Into Media conference on...
View ArticleFor HBO, a la Carte Programming Is Still a Ways Off, Says Eric Kessler
Eric Kessler has worked at HBO for more than two decades in various capacities, overseeing everything from program licensing to digital strategy and marketing. He’s been in the business a long time,...
View ArticleHBO's Berkes Restructures Digital Team (Memo)
About two weeks ago, I heard about a restructuring under HBO SVP of consumer technology Otto Berkes, who also takes over the job of CTO in March from longtime vet Bob Zitter. The former Microsoft exec...
View ArticleHBO Explains Why It's Not Going A La Carte Anytime Soon
Buy HBO without paying for cable TV? To a bunch of you, that sounds very exciting. But it’s not happening anytime soon. On Wednesday, HBO CEO Richard Plepler floated the notion of letting broadband...
View ArticleWhose HBO Go Account Do You Use?
College roommate’s boyfriend’s dad. (he knows) – No. 18 on a list of 32 answers to an informal survey of whose HBO Go accounts people in the BuzzFeed office use
View ArticleSorry, Cord-Cutters! Still No "Game of Thrones" for You.
Nope. You’re still not getting “Game of Thrones” — at least not the current season, at least not legally — without paying for cable. At least not in the U.S. Time Warner keeps getting asked about this,...
View ArticleNetflix Still Eats a Third of the Web Every Night; Amazon, HBO and Hulu Trail...
For the last three years, Netflix has accounted for a third of the Internet traffic zipping into North American homes every night. But Web video competitors like Amazon, HBO and Hulu all say they’re...
View ArticleWhy Microsoft's Xbox One Won't Kick the Cable Guy Out of Your House
Like everyone else, Microsoft wants to control your living room. The problem with that plan: The cable guy already controls your living room. He’s not leaving anytime soon. So, despite what you may...
View ArticleApple Adds iTunes Radio to Apple TV, but Not Much Else
New video for Apple hobbyists, obsessives and completists out today: Poorly lit footage of new Apple TV operating software, which will incorporate Apple’s iTunes Radio when that service shows up this...
View ArticleApple TV Gets a Bit Bigger, With HBO and ESPN Apps (For Most, but Not All of...
Apple’s TV hobby just got a bit bigger: Apple has added five new content providers to its sort-of set-top box, notably Time Warner’s HBO Go and Disney’s WatchESPN. Also available as of today: Satellite...
View ArticleIf I Could Have Just One Functionality From My Streaming Video Services, This...
I watch a lot of television. I see a lot of movies. I listen to a lot of music. Access to that content in a place-shifted and time-shifted world has only increased the amount of time I spend with...
View ArticleGoogle's Chromecast Lets You Watch TV on the Web on Your TV. Guess Who...
One of the cool features of Google’s new Chromecast device: It lets users move whatever they can see on their computer’s Chrome Web browser onto their TVs. One group of people who might not think...
View ArticleYou Might Be Able to Pay for HBO Without Paying for Cable. But You're Still...
Jeff Bewkes You say you love HBO — or the idea of HBO — but you don’t want to pay for other TV networks in order to watch it? Well, maybe, possibly, that could happen. One day. But you’re still going...
View ArticleChromecast Adds Hulu to Its Modest App Collection
Back in July, when Google introduced its Chromecast Web TV gadget, it said that the device would eventually support apps from services like Hulu. So here’s the Hulu app the company had talked about,...
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