by John Jorgensen on December 2, 2008
- Blockbuster is planning to utilize Microsoft’s Live Mesh to deliver movies to PCs and mobile phones, with the ability to start watching a movie on one device and then pick up where you left off on another.
- Live Mesh is Microsoft’s software/service that allows for synchronization across desktops and mobile devices.
- No word on release date.
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by Jason Wilk on November 25, 2008
- Sling Media
, the company behind the popular Slingbox TV-streaming hardware devices, has finally launched its widely anticipated streaming video portal much like Hulu on Sling.com
- Sling offers content from most of the major networks and studios including Warner, Sony, and MGM.
- Arrested Development in on board, but unfortunately The Daily Show and Colbert Report aren’t available such as on Hulu.
- Sling’s leg up in the space is due to it’s DVR hardware device that let’s you stream any content saved to the box on any computer or your TV. This isn’t much of a plus for those with HDMI cable’s and right now streaming is only available for Window’s users that have downloaded the plug-in.
- More importantly, Hulu has Sling by the balls, because most of the content on Sling is being licensed from Hulu (better yet, NBC/Universal). This will certainly hold them back from being a head-to-head competitor as most are trying to hype it to be.
- It’s going to be pretty tough to knock Hulu off it’s high horse right now, especially for players like FanCast (what happened there Comcast?)
TC
by John Jorgensen on November 25, 2008
- YouTube has officially announced its switch to a widescreen aspect ratio video player.
- New player is 960 pixels wide. 4:3 aspect ratio videos are displayed in letterbox.
- Widescreen could be enabled previously on YouTube videos by using a manual URL, but now the widescreen player is the default.
- Recently, YouTube announced they will stream select full length MGM films. No doubt they will take advantage of the widescreen view.
- Hulu, are you scared? (probably not)
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Yahoo Cuts Cord To It’s Live Streaming Baby – Yahoo Live Shuts Down
by glu on December 3, 2008
Dramatis Personae:
Yahoo – Long time interweb giant and parent of Yahoo Live
Interweb Chorus – bloggers, diggers, twitheads, comment whores
ACT I – February 2008
“Check it out interweb people. Yahoo Live! is just like ustream.tv, justin.tv, and all those other awesome live video streaming sites” – Yahoo
“meh” – Interweb Chorus
ACT II – Between Then And Now
“Don’t forget to check out Yahoo Live. It’s gonna be our best kid ever” - Yahoo
“meh” - Interweb Chorus
ACT III – December 3rd, 2008
“Has it been nine months already?” - Interweb Chorus
“Yup” – Yahoo
“You must be so proud of your baby” – Interweb Chorus
“Actually gonna kill it today. Adoption wasn’t really an option and we’re pretty tired as it is. So yah…” – Yahoo
“Welp…see ya later” – Interweb Chorus
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