Sky has unleashed a torrent of announcements for fans of streaming media in the UK. First up, the company is expanding the availability of their Sky Anytime+ VOD service to all Sky+HD subscribers. The service had previously only been available to Sky Broadband subscribers, but the expansion of the service means that Anytime+ will be available to Sky+HD subscribers regardless […]
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Netflix recently announced it had made a deal to offer BBC Worldwide’s content when Netflix launches in the UK and Ireland. It was, however, a non-exclusive deal as LOVEFiLM has demonstrated by jumping in and cutting a deal of their own. Amazon announced today that their LOVEFiLM service has secured a deal similar to Netflix’s for access to the BBC’s […]
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All right, guys! It’s time to take a detour into Apple rumor land. I’ve expressed my reservations before about devoting too much virtual ink to the rumors swirling around Apple’s plans to become a television manufacturer, but the USA Today has put together an extensive write-up based on claims made by a former employee and information from a wide variety […]
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In the wake of Steve Jobs’s death and the release of his biography, the Internet started to light up with rumors that Apple was in the process of building a genuine television. Such rumors were not new, so beyond reporting on the intriguing passage from Walter Isaacson’s biography that initially stirred things up, I have been generally reluctant to follow […]
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