The biggest players in the streaming entertainment programming arena continue to look to original content as a means to vie for subscribers. Hulu is hoping its original content will differentiate its service from Amazon and Netflix, Mashable reports—the burgeoning company recently announced plans to launch several new original shows, including “Quick Draw,” a quirky, comedic Western, [...]
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Streaming Services, Mobile Apps Changing the Way We Watch TV
Posted by Mark Holland on May 15th, 2013
Netflix UK Adds Disney Content To Its Line-up
Posted by Mark Holland on May 13th, 2013
Netflix has announced it has agreed with Disney to purchase to a range of its animated and live-action movies to the streaming service in the UK and Ireland. Films initially available include Pixar’s Ratatouille and Wall-E, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, The Chronicles of Narnia and several animated movies, such as [...]
Netflix Has Almost Covered Its $100 Million Investment In House Of Cards
Posted by Rob Gordon on April 24th, 2013
Netflix the movie and television streaming service recently broke new ground when it commissioned its own TV series House Of Cards – which was to be exclusively available via the streaming service. The series was high quality, with household names like Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright starring, and received overwhelmingly positive feedback. But was the [...]
Update To Virgin Media’s New Speed Throttling Measures
Posted by Rob Gordon on April 18th, 2013
I posted on Tuesday about the new bandwidth throttling (restricting) measure that Virgin Media has implemented, and after a chat with Virgin media just wanted to clarify some points. To recap, Virgin Media have implemented new bandwidth restrictions on “heavy” downloaders and uploaders that reduced their available speed when they cross a given threshold in [...]
Posted in All, Mobile Electronics, Social 
Tags: iplayer, lovefilm, netflix, streaming, virginmedia 
Keeping Up With Technology: Blockbuster Given Another Chance
Posted by Admin on April 17th, 2013
The fall of Blockbuster in January of this year signalled the end of an era. The iconic rental chain for films and computer games joined the list of many high street shops specialising in technology that were particularly hard-hit by the retail boom on the Internet. However, light at the end of the tunnel came [...]
Posted in All, Android, iPhone / iPad, Mobile Electronics, Social, Windows Phone Tags: amazon, blockbuster, lovefilm, netflix, streaming Virgin Media Introducing Bandwidth Throttling – Netflix HD Users Will Be Hit
Posted by Rob Gordon on April 16th, 2013
Virgin Media are today altering their “traffic management policy” in an effort to manage high downloaders volume users. Varying by your selected broadband tariff your speeds will be monitored, and once a certain level is reached within a given hour, you will be throttled back to a reduced speed. You’ll still have service, but with [...]
Posted in All, Mobile Electronics, Social Tags: iplayer, lovefilm, netflix, streaming, virginmedia New Mobile Music Service Bloom.fm Launches
Posted by Rob Gordon on January 8th, 2013
A new mobile music service has entered the fray, in an already cramped market filled with Deezer, Spotify, Last.fm and more is there room for the new Bloom.fm service? Bloom.fm offers mobile only (web based streaming is coming) music streaming to iOS and Android (Beta at time of writing) devices with tiered plans allowing increasing [...]
