Netflix Tip – Get Alerted When New Titles are Released
If you want to make certain you are aware of all of the new uploads on Netflix and don't want something more personal than InstantWatcher.com there is an option you can add to your home setup. Think of it as a different type of home automation. Using RSS and your favorite feedreader you can now [...]
Apple May Have Blown It When It Decided to Discontinue TV Show Rentals via iTunes
After reading the news that Apple decided to "pull the plug" on TV show rentals in iTunes, it left me wondering if this was a brilliant or dumb move on Apple's part. You can say that Apple made a smart move financially by dropping the low margin 99¢ TV show rental offerings that, apparently, people [...]
WD TV Live Plus & WD TV Live Hub Gain Hulu Plus Access
Starting today WD TV Live Plus ($129.99) and WD TV Live Hub ($199.99 w/ 1TB of network storage) owners will now be able to access Hulu Plus (at $7.99/mo) alongside Netflix, Blockbuster, Cinema Now, Pandora, YouTube, Facebook, and other services with the company's latest firmware update. Like other devices of this kind, however, free access [...]
Who Knew Adding a Share Button Would Get You Sued? Rovi Claims Hulu Is Infringing on Their Interactive TV Patents
Unfortunately the details are scarce at this time, but it has just hit the wire that Rovi (formerly Macrovision and Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc.) has set its lawyers on Hulu for what appears to be its latest Facebook integration. If you remember earlier this month, Hulu introduced the ability to share and discover videos with friends on [...]
Hulu Plus May Go Ad-free for a Price
Good catch by our friends at GigaOm. @hulu_support just tweeted that they are considering an ad-free version of Hulu Plus. Currently, Hulu Plus costs $7.99/mo, but its larger archive of movies and TV shows is sprinkled with ads. No word, of course, when the option may become available, but it begs the question: How much [...]
Nielsen Survey Reveals How People Prefer to Use Hulu vs. Netflix
Kudos to Nielsen. The company has conducted a survey which reveals how people actually use Hulu and Netflix. Not surprisingly, people like watching TV shows on Hulu (73%) and movies primarily via Netflix (53%), which makes sense since Hulu is made up of TV network content (well, at least a majority of it is) and Netflix [...]
YouTube is King of Online Video; Netflix Leads in Paid Viewership?
AllThingsD has posted a graph produced by Citi Investment Research and Analysis which shows that YouTube is the king of online video when it comes to the number of eyeballs it gets on a daily basis (also just recently confirmed by comScore). Surprisingly, Facebook came in second to YouTube in the Citi survey — thanks to users [...]
Episode Tracker Add-in for Windows Media Center Brings Users the Latest Video Content from the ‘Net
If you're a "cord cutter" and want to recreate that channel flipping experience, you may want to download Episode Tracker by CordChoppers. The Windows Media Center add-in aggregates all the latest content available across Hulu, Comedy Central, YouTube, and other video sites. It's pretty simple in concept, but it provides a constant stream of "what's [...]






