Just Found Online Content Plugin

Oct 1, 2010 by

The Green Button strikes again!  This time while taking a look around the other morning, I came across Macrotube.  As the name suggests, the application provides a way to pull YouTube content into Media Center.  Happily though, that’s not where the fun ends, but just begins. While the...

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Best Buy-CinemaNow announcement leaves more questions than answers

Nov 5, 2009 by

Best Buy and CinemaNow announced a wide-reaching partnership this week, but so far there's more questions than answers about how the service will work and just how wide the reach will be.

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Seen in HD Ep. 3 – FCC & your HDTV, I, Robot review and mor...

Sep 2, 2009 by

Welcome to September here on “Seen in HD”. Just a quick show note: there will be no new show for Sept. 9 (Labor Day Week) and we’ll be back with a new show the week of Sept. 14 when Brent Evans of Geek Tonic joins us for our 2009 Fall TV Season Extravaganza. In the news on this...

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Hulu May Start Charging for Access

Jul 23, 2009 by

These rumors have already been discussed but it looks like it’s more than just content geeks and enthusiasts doing the talking. Bob Iger, CEO of Walt Disney, stated recently at a technology conference held by Fortune Magazine: "We have ample evidence both in traditional media and in new...

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Hulu Set For UK Launch

May 21, 2009 by

Thanks to Media Center MVP Richard Miller we get news that Hulu is negotiating to open up it’s doors to UK viewers starting this September.  The Telegraph is reporting that the service could launch with over 3,000 hours of US content and have ITV and Channel 4 as content partners. From the...

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Online Content Watching up 58 Percent Per User

May 13, 2009 by

It seems that people are starting to enjoy watching content online.  Video Business has published the latest Nielson report which shows that online viewing jumped 58% per user in the last year.  Turns out that online viewers consumed an average of three hours of online content in April...

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Canadians Get Some Online Love

May 1, 2009 by

If you live in the Great White North, sites like Hulu and US networks which provide streaming video are off limits to you.  Unless you feel like going through the trouble of running through a proxy server that is.  Well now you don’t have to worry about taking those steps anymore. CTV...

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