Tag: On Demand
Post-Kangaroo, 4oD gets a Flashy revamp
The Competition Commission may have put the kibosh on Kangaroo but that’s not stopping the individual broadcasters pushing ahead with their own TV-on-demand services.
Channel 4 isn’t letting the marsupial off the hook quite that easily, though, and is set to reuse some of the technology that would have been used in the joint project to beef up its own 4oD (Four on Demand) offering…
New Sky Player subscription service for non-Sky customers
Sky is looking to wires under the ground to provide TV programmes to customers – it is planning a new internet based subscription service for Sky Player, the iPlayer-esque clunky, bloated piece of crap you installed once and gave upon before successfully downloading any programmes to watch.
Tiscali launches its own PVR — is it "amazing"?
With visions of “that’s amazing” broadband adverts running around my head, I’m reporting on Tiscali’s venture into the world of PVR. The Tiscali+ PVR offers all the usual functionality, with a modest 160GB hard drive, access to on-demand films, BBC iPlayer and 4oD content, plus the possibility of catch-up content from ITV and Channel 5 in due course.
Joost to enter live-streaming market early 2008
Now that Joost has opened the floodgates and are allowing minions in willy-nilly, they’ve announced a huge incentive for people to join up. From early 2008, they’ll be live-streaming TV in the US, as well as their usual pre-packaged video fare.
Sadly it looks like it’ll start out streaming sports first, and then hopefully enter the full-blown television…
