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My wife has been asking me for some time now to dump cable in favor of Internet-based TV. Even though I’ve been using media extenders like the Apple TV to watch my own server-based video library and Internet-based TV for years, I’ve been reluctant to make the move. Why? Because, even now it’s a pain [...] When the rumor went around that Apple would be releasing a new iPhone-OS based Apple TV, there was a lot of excitement. I didn’t really buy into the new Apple TV hype. Now, we know it’s not coming, or if it is, it’s not going to amount to much. We know this because Steve Jobs [...] Whew! I was worried there. With Comcast buying NBC, I was afraid that Comcast might turn Hulu into a pay-for-view service Fortunately, that isn’t in the works. When asked directly if there would be a “Hulu premium” — a version of the site where viewers have to pay to watch shows — the response was [...] Neat news for Linux Internet TV watchers Hulu has just released a version of its Hulu Desktop for Linux. As a big Internet TV fan in general, and both a Hulu and Linux fan in specific, I really welcome this new addition to the Hulu family. Dan Rayburn on StreamingMedia reports that he’s heard from sources within Hulu “that Hulu is already beta testing a subscription based video service internally and is working out all of the technical details for the offering.” For more on what he’s been hearing read, Hulu Already Working On The Technical Requirements For Subscription Service Can’t get enough of Stargate? A report in Stargate fan publication, GateWorld, states that “New episodes of Stargate Universe will be available on Hulu each week after the show premieres on Friday, October 2.” U.S. viewers can already watch episodes of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis on Hulu. For more details on watching this next volume in [...] Mark Walsh of Online Media Daily reports that, “If analyst Laura Martin is right, Hulu is the demon seed that will wipe out the network television business as we know it. In a new report, the Soleil Securities analyst estimates that the online video hub will cost TV networks $920 per viewer in advertising if [...] Google quietly announced yesterday that it was buying On2 Technologies. For $106.5 million dollars, Google gets On2, a leading developer of video compression, publishing and encoding technology. Could Google be getting poised to jump into Internet TV? |
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