ATT launches Homezone TV and Internet service
U.S. phone company AT&T Inc. said on Wednesday it began marketing its AT&T Homezone, a long-awaited service that combines high-speed Internet and satellite television in one set-top box.
Homezone, which offers digital video recording, movies on demand, photo- and music-sharing, and Web-based remote access, is initially available in Ohio and San Antonio, Texas, ahead of a [...]
CBS News to sell vintage clips on Web
CBS News for the first time is opening its decades of archives to the public through a deal with online retailers CustomFlix and Amazon.com.
The deal initially will offer access to dozens of full-length reports and segments from the “CBS Evening News” and “60 Minutes” that have aired since 2000. But in the future, CBS News [...]
The Dude Tube
Will a gaming league lure boys back to TV? By the second day of the tournament the playing field at the Anaheim Convention Center is littered with pizza boxes and crushed Red Bull cans. Fans in baggy pants and baseball caps cluster around monitors for XBox and Nintendo consoles for Round 2 of the Boost [...]
Gadget uses Skype to send TV anywhere
Fancy turning your copy of Skype into a watch-anywhere TV viewer? Now you can, courtesy of Japanese company Novac, which today announced a box that turns any suitably-specified PC into a machine for beaming TV shows to anyone on the internet.
The key is in the software. The box itself is an analogue TV tuner – [...]
It’s TV, but not as we know it
The European Commission and the UK are once again set on a collision course. Forget constitutions, euros or Maastricht. This time it’s about something you care about: television, and particularly the future of TV and new media over the internet. The complex row between the UK government, the Confederation of British Industries (CBI), UK technology [...]
MTV Offers More Shows Through iTunes
Despite having a digital-music service that competes directly with iTunes, MTV Networks has decided to offer several more of its TV shows through Apple’s music store. The MTV programming includes shows from Spike TV, Nick at Nite, TV Land, and The N.
Spicing up the menu of choices available on iTunes are programs that include MTV’s [...]
AT&T launches TV service
On Monday the company made its U-verse TV service commercially available to 5,000 homes in San Antonio.
Until this week AT&T’s TV service was available to only a handful of consumers in that city, the first of many on the list of U-verse prospects. AT&T expects to offer the service to a total of 15 to [...]
Niche TV growing quickly online
If you have a hobby or interest you are passionate about, the chances are that you have already found a website or a blog dedicated to it.
But with the spread of high speed broadband there is an increasing possibility that you just might find a whole TV channel, not just on the internet, but through [...]
Research boost for ads in TV downloads
US audiences appear far more eager to download television programmes that contain advertising than to pay for versions of those same shows without it, according to network executives.
The findings are amongthe first examining viewers’habits since networks broke with tradition last year and began making their programmesavailable to consumers over a variety of emerging digital platforms, [...]
YouTube ‘bigger than TV’ for advertisers
One of the world’s biggest advertising agencies has urged marketers to learn from consumer-created content on websites such as YouTube.com, which now has greater reach among some US audiences than MTV, the music broadcaster.
The Leo Burnett agency, whose clients include McDonald’s, General Motors, Heinz and Samsung, said commercials would work on YouTube, which publishes video [...]
