If content is king, then Comcast’s upcoming internet-delivered TV service will have a somewhat-less royal amount of programming.
When it arrives at the end of this summer, Comcast’s internet TV service Stream will let subscribers stream live, on-demand and recorded shows from… [Read more on AdAge]
A new industry group, the Streaming Video Alliance (SVA), has formed to work on industry-wide standards and best practices in internet video. There’s 17 members of the group but the problem is, YouTube and Netflix aren’t among them.
The founding members of the SVA do include some big names such as… [Read more on The Next Web]
A top Comcast Corp. executive took aim at HBO over its planned streaming-video service, saying it could cannibalize a lucrative pay-TV business, highlighting… [Read more on The Wall Street Journal]
Google and Netflix make it easy for customers to come and go as they please. Comcast and Apple make it difficult to leave the company’s ecosystem. The open-door policy is obviously the more consumer-friendly option, but which strategy serves shareholders best?… [Read more on Nasdaq]
CBS, Fox (FOXA) and the other TV broadcasters are delivering more shows on demand through pay-TV services to wean audiences off digital video recorders, which let viewers skip through commercials.
More ads mean more revenue for the TV industry. Comcast Corp. (CMCSA), owner of NBC and the largest U.S. pay-TV service, is offering the 100 most popular shows on demand in the new… [Read more on Bloomberg]
Netflix has called on US regulators to free up cities and local governments to build out their own high-speed internet services. The move is the latest in a series of challenges Netflix has made to policies… [Read more on The Guardian]
We’ve already heard Netflix executives explain why they signed an Internet deal with Comcast, even though they say they didn’t want to: They say they had to pay Comcast for access to its broadband pipes because their… [Read more on Re/Code]
The service — supporting laptops, tablets and smartphones — which is included with room and board for students living in on-campus housing, will be available this autumn at Bridgewater College, Drexel University, Emerson College, Lasell College and the University of Delaware. In addition, several schools, including… [Read more on Rapid TV News]
The number of people viewing streamed content on their mobile TV apps has grown dramatically, seeing a 57 percent gain over the same time last year.
According to… [Read more on UPI]
Google has put broadband companies on notice. If you stream YouTube videos poorly, we will call you out.
YouTube‘s parent company has created a tool for people to see how well — and how poorly — internet service providers (ISPs) deliver YouTube video streams. Google’s Video… [Read more on AdvertisingAge]
Google and Netflix are teaming up against Internet service providers such as Comcast, which are charging extra fees to content companies to provide faster Internet service. Google stated that they would never enforce fees for direct connection to its fiber network. The advertising and search company allows… [Read more on Liberty Voice]
Netflix is now paying Comcast for a direct connection to the internet service provider, as it seeks to ensure that Comcast customers experience fewer hiccups when using its video streaming service. And it’s doing much the same with Verizon, another major internet provider. But Google believes this kind of… [Read more on Wired]
AT&T’s $67 billion debt-and-equity offer for DirectTV, along with Comcast’s pending $45 billion deal for TimeWarner Cable, make clear that the market for digital entertainment delivered over the web has moved from a high-growth phase to a growth-and-consolidation phase.With telecom networks… [Read more on USA Today]
If you noticed more buffering and sputtering when streaming video from Netflix a few months ago, you weren’t alone. But who was really to blame? Your broadband provider or Netflix?
Netflix, which earlier this year reluctantly agreed to pay interconnection fees to broadband providers, has suggested that Comcast is to blame because it’s violating principles of Net neutrality, which are all about keeping the Internet free and open.
Comcast has vigorously denied these assertions. Still, questions remain and confusion abounds over… [Read more on C|Net]
Advertisers have always hated DVR and video on demand (VOD) because they give people a way to watch the stuff they like (TV shows) without any of the stuff they don’t (commercials). Networks complain they make ad spots harder to sell, since advertisers can’t be sure when people would actually watch their programs—a day later? A week later? If a movie studio wants to advertise an upcoming film, how can it be sure people will see its trailers before opening weekend?
The two sides have hit on a potential solution called dynamic ad insertion. That’s… [Read more on BusinessWeek]
(Reuters) – Comcast Corp may soon allow customers using its cloud-connected X1 cable box system to buy games from Electronic Arts Inc through their televisions, according to five sources briefed on the plans.
Such a partnership would… [Read more on Reuters]
If the deal goes through many rightfully worry about the power the new company would wield. It would control 40% of the United States’ Internet services along with 19 of the nation’s largest cable markets. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), YouTube, CBS Corporation (NYSE:CBS) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) along with Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) to name a few all have a large stake in the outcome of the merger. Outside of Netflix, many are worried what might happen if… [Read more on ValueWalk]
Television was certainly worth watching last week, and not just the latest episode of “Mad Men.”
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Aereo, a company that transmits broadcast TV over the Internet without paying broadcasters for the privilege. If the high court rules that this is legal, it could devastate traditional TV companies.
On Wednesday, the premium cable network Home Box Office struck a deal with online retailer Amazon.com that means you won’t need a cable TV subscription to watch HBO programs on the Internet. And on Thursday Netflix,… [Read more on The Boston Globe]
It’s been a busy week for the companies in the business of trying to revolutionize how we watch television.
Netflix struck a deal to make its video streaming service available through set-top boxes offered by three cable companies; said it would raise its prices for new customers; and publicly objected to a planned merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable. HBO struck a deal to offer its shows on a formidable Netflix competitor, Amazon Prime. Oh, and while we’re at it,… [Read more on The New York Times]
In its earnings release for the first quarter of its 2014 fiscal year, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX ) announced better-than-anticipated earnings and revenue that fell in line with analyst estimates. However, there was one tidbit the company mentioned that some investors might have overlooked. On pages 5 and 6 of its release, the company provided its opinion of the pending merger to take place between Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA ) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC ) . Needless to say, its thoughts were nothing less than candid… [Read more on The Motley Fool]
The war between Netflix and Comcast is entering surreal territory, with both companies accusing the other of conspiring against them.
In a blog post published Thursday by Jennifer Khoury, a Senior Vice President of Corporate and Digital Communication at Comcast, the company claimed that Netflix had purposefully slowed its customers’ streaming speed and signal strength in the past in what Comcast believes was an attempt to… [Read more on The Huffington Post]
In the months since announcing a “mutually beneficial” interconnection agreement, Netflix and Comcast have seen eye to eye on very little. Throw in Comcast’s attempt to swallow up Time Warner Cable and grow even larger, and you have a battleground for the two to air their disagreements. Netflix put its opposition to the merger in writing with its most recent earnings report earlier this week, spurring a response from Comcast, and now a pair of more detailed rebuttals from the streaming company… [Read more on Engadget]
Senator Al Franken has asked Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to testify to Congress regarding the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. Franken is one of the chief opponents to the merger. In a letter to Hastings, Franken says… [Read more on Business Insider]
In addition to news on possible price increases, Netflix on Monday also officially took a stance against the proposed $45 billion merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable. In its letter to shareholders released Monday, Netflix said that a combined Comcast and TWC would “possess even more anticompetitive leverage to charge arbitrary interconnection tolls for access to their customers.” To back up its reasoning, Netflix said that… [Read more on BGR]
This week, the Washington Post endorsed Comcast’s takeover of Time Warner Cable, the largest taking over the second-largest. The Post said the deal was OK, but regulators should keep a “watchful eye” on it and be prepared to act “if big industry players begin to violate basic principles of market fairness.”
That’s like telling someone it’s OK to step on a rattlesnake but to be careful not to get bitten. It’s also a little late. Those principles are long dead, killed in large part by a compliant Congress and weak regulators. If the deal must go through, the FCC should… [Read more on Wired]
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