Tag: TELEVISION

NewsClipper is a news aggregation service that brings together videos from popular news sites like CNN, the BBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, MSNBC, and ESPN. You can sort videos by network, category, most recent, or most viewed. Future upgrades will include a search box and the ability to rate the videos you watch. You can also add videos to a playlist and create your own virtual news channel with ...

Livestation is a new streaming television service from Skinkers, a British startup with support from Microsoft. While the service is still an invite-only beta, the company widened its beta this week with a promise to send out invites to pretty much anybody who signs up for one at the Livestation web site. So what exactly does Livestation offer? Unlike streaming video services such as Joost and ...

Like the idea of a single application that lets you find streaming television channels, but don't like having to watch them on your PC screen? MiraWorldTV is a plugin for Windows Vista Media Center that lets you find and watch dozens of television streams using a 10-foot interface. That means you can sit on your couch while you survive the writer's strike by watching brainless TV shows from ...

At some point we're going to stop calling all of these internet TV platforms "IPTV" and just start calling them TV. Of course, one of the main differences between live TV and Joost is that Joost isn't well... live. But it looks like that could change early next year. PaidContent:UK reports that Joost will start offering live streaming television programs to US customers during the first quarter ...

LiveStation is designed to bring live radio and television to your computer by using a peer-to-peer network. Think of it as a Slingbox, except without the box or Joost except live, or maybe a hybrid of the two. The LiveStation player is a free download. All the player needs to work is a broadband connection. There are several different broadcast channels available in the player and web streaming ...

If you want to rent a video, you can go to pretty much any video store and walk out with a movie of your choice. It doesn't matter what studio produced that film. But if you want to watch streaming video of network television programs, you either need to visit the network's website or find a site that streams pirated copies. It looks like that could be changing. Increasingly we're seeing networks ...

Pretty much every TV network and its sister offers up a way to watch popular shows for free online. Just hop on over to a network website and you'll find a way to watch recent episodes of everything from Heroes to Girlfriends. The episodes are typically free, but include advertising. And not an assortment of commercials like you get on broadcast TV. No, we're talking about a single ad which plays ...

Everyone knows its America's number one pastime, and now Google has announced their entrance into the TV ad market. There has been a lot of speculation recently surrounding the fact that Google's been nosing around the TV market to extend their offline ad experimentations, and it was just a matter of time before the news officially dropped. With this new TV Ad trial, Google hopes to improve user ...

Move over casting couch, welcome to the new generation of user generated TV. Kyte.tv is rumored to do what Blogger did for blogging, by taking standard TV channels into the hands of the people. Kyte.tv will enable any user the ability to create and publish their very own TV channels that can be accessible everywhere. The team behind the service, Decentral.tv, has raised capital from the likes of ...

MeeVee is all about personalized navigation and patented metadata generation technology, which results in a comprehensive personalized TV search. MeeVee helps users find the programming they are looking for from new services, like internet based broadcasts. Through the online service you can program alerts, create customized TV listings, and check out recommendations. We covered MeeVee last April, ...

Look out for some BBC shows like Doctor Who to be available for download through BBC on demand. This new program will also users to watch or download popular television shows on their computers through a special application. The shows will be available up to a week after their initial airing. After this initial launch, the BBC will be releasing a desktop application called iPlayer which allows ...

TVU Player is a free Windows app that lets you watch a variety of broadcast TV channels over the Internet. Unlike a number of web sites I've seen that promise free TV, TVU Player actually has some channels you might be interested in watching: ABC, Fox, CNN, Cartoon Network, ESPN. All told, about four dozen channels, including a number of foreign channels. It's live TV, meaning that you get exactly ...

Yahoo! Go is the next generation of Yahoo! properties. It includes Y! Go Mobile for cell phone users, Y! Go Desktop for PC users (yet to be released) and Y! Go TV for television and multimedia PC users. Y! Go TV (beta) was released a few months ago shortly following Y!'s acquisition of Meedio. The implementation was a stripped down version of Meedio's basic DVR product and was made available to ...

Friends, Babylon 5, MADtv, The Jetsons, and The Flintstones not only are some great tv favorites, but they are also set to be released by Warner Bros. onto Apple's iTunes Music Store for download. Warner Bros. and Apple are releasing these great television moments for the world to download on iTunes for $1.99 per episode. This is a great way to check out a favorite episode of Friends, and the rest ...

Google dropped its video ads in the UK, as well as dropped a little pressure on television networks. Outsiders see this move from Google both as a great step to more intuitive ads, and a pressured move towards the television networks space. The ads are currently being run in Canada, the US, and Japan, and have had great success in early testing. Since the ads are click to play, users have the ...