March 4th, 2012

2012: The Year For Change In Online Sports Streaming

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2012 needs to be the year sports teams around the world wake up and start realizing that their multi-billion dollar licensing deals with networks are about to become worthless. My company designs and manufactures TVs, and we see a gigantic spike in sales any time there is a big sporting event — the Soccer World Cup, the Olympics, etc. It’s clear that loving sport is an almost universal trait… → Read More

March 12th, 2009

Lionsgate exec says Wii to stream content this year

We’ve been having a rousing discussion in the CG chatroom about whether or not the Wii, in its current incarnation, could handle HD streaming. As is, you can’t officially watch DVDs on it, but like most things these days, it’s been hacked to playback DVDs. Nintendo says it needs more than a firmware update, but the guts of the Wii are powerful enough to do so with a software flash or so we… → Read More

March 6th, 2009

PlayOn moves to rule the streaming content roost, adds Amazon VoD and Revision3 content

If you haven’t heard about PlayOn, MediaMall’s PC-to-console video streaming software, you will soon. Moving to become a major player in the streaming content world, PlayOn has grabbed some major wins lately, and it doesn’t look like they’re planning on slowing down. In a software update hitting today, PlayOn has added streaming support for Amazon’s Video on Demand service along with content from… → Read More

October 2nd, 2008

Netflix to begin streaming on Macs this year

Wahoo! Lost amongst the shuffle yesterday with the Starz announcement was this tidbit of news from the Netflix Blog. Netflix will finally support streaming on Macs by year’s end. And, for all of you Mac users (of which I am one) we’ve been busy working getting a solution that will allow you to watch instantly on your Mac. So hang in there – we’ll have something for you by the end… → Read More

July 9th, 2008

D-Link networked DivX media player now available

DLink’s DSM-330 is now available for $299. It connects to your home networks via Wi-Fi or Ethernet and can play back high definition DivX content on your TV using DivX Connected functionality, which basically streams DivX, Xvid, WMV, DV, MPEG-1, and MJPEG video content (various audio formats too) from your computer and also harnesses your CPU’s horsepower to make all the pretty menus. → Read More