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Why Sling.com matters
It’s a question I’ve been getting from the press since Sling.com was first placed in private beta test. “Why is Sling trying to create a website when Hulu, Veoh, Joost and others have already cornered...
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VUDU creates open development platform for TV
They say if you ask, you shall receive. Last week, I asked. I said: So who is going to bring an open development platform to the TV in a commercially viable way? My money’s on Roku in the short run....
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I hacked my AppleTV…and I liked it
With obvious homage to Katie Perry, my title today refers to my escapades over the holiday dusting off my Apple TV (which I wrote about last week, confessing that it had remained unplugged since early...
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Samsung adds Yahoo Widgets to its TVs
In yet another Pre-CES announcement — eerily similar to the one I blogged about yesterday when LG pre-announced that it was putting Netflix into some of its HDTVs — Samsung late yesterday announced it...
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Sezmi opens the door to a new kind of set top box
I have written a lot over the past two years about the future of the set top box, both on the cable and satellite side as well as on the consumer retail side. On the consumer retail side, there are...
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Another case of disappearing content: Hulu cuts popular TV show
In an unusual — and very welcome — case of transparency, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar this week posted a frank blog entry apologizing for removing several seasons of episodes of It’s Always Sunny in...
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Why Hulu is clashing with potential partners
Two news items from last week are worth commenting on in the same post: Hulu insisted that Boxee pull its Hulu player from Boxee. For the un-nerdy, Boxee is the open-source media player software that I...
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Apple TV vs. Roku vs. SlingBox
NOTE: This post is nearly four years old but continues to get traffic, enjoy the read, though I shut down comments years ago because of spam, sorry. In the meantime, please check out my book, Digital...
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The mobile Web: The future of TV remote control
Hands up, anybody who has ever controlled their TV, DVR, game console, DVD player, or other fancy video gadget using the Web rather than a maze of slow clicks on an old infrared remote control....
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Disney/ABC joins Hulu: What it Means
Today Disney and Hulu confirmed the long-running rumor that Disney would join News Corp. and NBC Universal as equity partners in the most successful professional video content site. According to the...
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