Sony’s video on demand service was turned on in Australia Tuesday morning, letting users of connected Bravia TVs, Sony home theatre systems and Blu-ray players stream movies for $5. And to bizarrely prove the point that devices like its new Blu-ray 3D player with Wi-Fi will let even old TVs connect to the internet, Sony went retro. More »
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Sony’s Internet TVs are here, and we are live at their debut with hands on. So how does it feel to use the world’s first Google TV-powered HDTV? More »
Boxee just confirmed that their upcoming Boxee Box made in conjunction with D-Link will have NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipset. They also mentioned that the Boxee Beta is free for the world to download. Rejoice! More »
Television is in the middle of a revolution. A revolution brought about by a little thing known as the internet. Where traditionally the broadcast technology that made beaming video programming from one place to many different homes was a passive form of entertainment, the rise of technologies like DVRs and the Internet has allowed us to be more actively engaged in where, when and how we want to watch TV. And thanks to the web, IPTV is going to take that shift to the next level. More »
Just in case you missed it buried underneath the upgrade to Netflix Watch Instantly the other day, Microsoft has gone live with Internet TV on Windows 7 Media Center, offering content (of rather poor picture quality) from the following providers: More »
Vizio is readying TVs that bring some of the most popular websites including Facebook, Twitter, and eBay to new sets equipped with 802.11n Wi-Fi (on top of already announced offerings). [Vizio] More »
Boxee, the free media centre software that you can easily install on your Apple TV via a USB patch stick (as well as any other recent OS X machine), now supports Hulu streaming, as well as CBS and Comedy Central (for South Park and Daily Show/Colbert). It’s an alpha release, so you’ll need an invitation to download the app (use this special hookup for Giz readers) to get streaming. It will also play videos of myriad codecs stored on networked drives, and lots of other tastiness. A quick try on my Intel Mac yielded a nice stream of the most recent episode of the Office–not bad at all. Ahem, Apple–third parties are now not just walking, but dancing circles around you with these unofficial add-ons. [Boxee]
The ABC (that’s our ABC, not the US one) has followed in the footsteps of the BBC’s iPlayer and launched its own Internet television streaming service.
Called ABC Playback, the service will offer three streaming Internet channels:
- ABC Catch-up, which will have a range of programming culled from both of the network’s free-to-air TV channels (ABC1 and the digital-only ABC2). - ABC Real, which will show documentaries and natural history programming - ABC Shop, a paid download service from which you will be able to both buy and rent programming. Initially, programs will be roughly $3 to rent for a week, and pay-to-own services will come later.
