Category Archives: Media Streaming

Sky Go app gets live and on demand Sky Movies, 3G streaming coming soon

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Chris Wiser

BSkyB (“Sky”), the UK’s largest pay-TV broadcaster, has announced that its rolling-out movies-on-demand streaming to its Sky Go mobile service. The service allows subscribers to watch both live and ‘on-demand’ video content on a computer, mobile device or Xbox 360. At present the Sky … Continue reading →

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HMV launches movie-on-demand service in the UK

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Chris Wiser

The service will be known as hmvon-demand, offering movies from more than 30 film distributors – including the major Hollywood studios, and is soft-launching today. The new service will be available on PCs, though there are plans to extend it to … Continue reading →

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Download PS3 Media Server 1.50.0 Final Now

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Chris Wiser

The PS3 Media Server developers announced yesterday, November 20th, the immediate availability for download of the PS3 Media Server 1.50.0 application for Linux, OSX and Windows platforms. The PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant UPnP Media Server for the … Continue reading →

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SlingPlayer app lands on Boxee Box

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Chris Wiser

With the SlingPlayer app, Sling Solo or Pro-HD owners will be able to use the Boxee Box to: Control their cable box, satellite receiver, DVR, or DVD player from anywhere in the world Program their DVR and access DVR content Stream programming in 1080i … Continue reading →

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Disney videos on You Tube

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Chris Wiser

YouTube’s official blog sugests that “Cars” and “Pirates” already available for American users to rent right now, and are priced at $1.99 and that it won't be long before it's rolled out in the UK.

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Boxee Live TV is coming. Time to cut the cord.

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Chris Wiser

Boxee Box, in January will be bringing out a Live TV dongle that lets you connect an antenna to your Box to watch channels like ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC in HD with no monthly fee. You can pre-order the Live TV stick … Continue reading →

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Netflix Changes UI for Android Tablets

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Chris Wiser

Owners of tablet PCs running under Google's Android operating system who are accessing the Netflix service from their devices now have a new flavor of the Netflix mobile client available for download. The new app flavor comes along with a series … Continue reading →

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Free TV satellite channels in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Chris Wiser

Tv Soft is a handy and reliable application designed to enable you to watch online TV. Tired of TV software where most of the channels don't work? This is the software for you! The supported languages are: French, English, Spanish, Italian … Continue reading →

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iPlayer may soon be covered by TV licence fee

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Chris Wiser

The BBC iPlayer and other catch-up on-demand services may soon be covered by the TV licence fee, if plans being mulled over by the UK government come to fruition. Although all the UK's television channels are covered by the £145 … Continue reading →

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iPad Becomes a Portable TV with DirectTV 1.3.1

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Chris Wiser

According to the developers, you can now “turn your iPad into a portable TV and watch your favorite shows in any room of your home”. The 1.3.1 update adds the ability to scroll through a list of channels available to watch on your iPad with a … Continue reading →

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