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TV.com Goes iPhone Friendly, While HULU Pulls Back

By
Steve Park
on February 27, 2009 12:02 PM |
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CBS, the owners of TV.com who are currently in a content battle with HULU have recently upped their stake to grab more eyeballs by syndicating their content to iPhone users. Via their new TV.com iPhone application (not available in Canada), they are offering access to a library of content from the CBS network of properties (The CW, Showcase, CNET TV, etc...). 

Full episodes of mainstream network content ranging from Star Trek to C.S.I. can be accessed to users but apparently a lot of shows still aren't available in their entirety, but hopefully that will change over time. Regardless, this is a great first set and will no doubt put pressure on the others content players to follow suit, so bravo to CBS for taking the first step! Now what about us up here in the north?? CBC, CTV, CanWest?? 

Oh and I almost forgot...screw you HULU!  [via NYTimes]

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CBS VS HULU

By
Steve Park
on February 20, 2009 1:19 PM |
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So it looks like a web war is brewing between CBS corp, who owns TV.com, and Hulu. Here's the breakdown of events. Hulu announces that they are going to be pulling their content from TV.com and Boxee earlier this week. Boxee complied, but CBS has released a statement "CBS Interactive is well within its rights to stream Hulu video content on TV.com under its agreement with Hulu. We are evaluating next steps at this time".

The interesting legal angle here is that Hulu and TV.com negotiated a content distribution deal prior to the CBS acquisition of CNET, who is the parent company of TV.com. So can Hulu just breach that deal because they don't want to play nice nice with the competition? As reported by TechCrunch, TV.com's traffic is growing very fast and has surpassed Hulu in total monthly unique visitors (5.9 million vs. 4.5 million according to Nielsen). That would definitely explain the spiteful regression. Neither side is commenting at this point as I'm sure their men in black are suiting up for battle. [via WSJ]

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Hulu Removes Content From Boxee

By
Steve Park
on February 19, 2009 5:49 PM |
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Hulu has decided to pull content from BoxeeTV??! It seems to me that Hulu's content providers got really high on bad shrooms, got paranoid, and decided it's not a good idea to have their shows streamed to your TV through Boxee. A blog posting on the Hulu's website explains in more detail about the decision. CEO Jason Kilar says "While we stubbornly believe in this brave new world of media convergence -- bumps and all -- we are also steadfast in our belief that the best way to achieve our ambitious, never-ending mission of making media easier for users is to work hand in hand with content owners." I applaud their sincerity and understand this can't be fun for him right now.

It really saddens me to think that the media players who can make a difference are choosing to hinder progress and continue to make the same old mistakes. Boxee was a move in the right direction. Do they fear that Boxee will replace cable? Whether its Boxee or another application, internet television will be an option. So why fight progress when they could be benefiting from the initiative of companies like Boxee. Did they not learn from the mistakes of the music industry and a little application called Napster? Well, Apple did and created something called iTunes. 

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Boxee.TV - Change is Here

By
Steve Park
on January 17, 2009 12:35 PM |
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After reading an article about Boxee in The New York Times this past weekend, I decided to download the software and try it out for myself. Wow, was I ever pleasantly surprised, in fact I spent the majority of the weekend streaming videos and music on my TV. I've had my Mac mini  connected to my 40" LCD TV for a while now but using a wireless mouse and keyboard just doesn't allow for a smooth experience. Boxee does away with browsers and makes accessing media from the internet seamless.

Boxee is a startup trying to break new ground in the way you will consume digital media. I think they are definitely on the right path. Once you install the software (50mb download), currently only available for Mac, Linux, and Apple TV (though a PC version is being tested), it allows you to access, as well as stream media from multiple sources, such as your computer, LAN, and the internet (Hulu, Youtube, Netflix, CBS, Last.FM, Flikr, etc).

What makes Boxee great and stand out from the rest is that you can navigate through this media center using the apple remote control that comes with your Macbook. The interface is so easy and well thought out. Within minutes I was a pro user. 
 
I've never been more excited about an application. Go download this NOW! 

By the way, for those of you that want to set up your own internet TV but don't know how I will be posting a video tutorial in the coming weeks.

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