A new round of objections is emerging to Charter’s proposed merger with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, which would form New Charter. USTelecom, a lobby representing AT&T and Verizon, is asking the FCC to place limits on New Charter’s ability to coordinate with other cable providers, according to Bloomberg. The lobby also asked […]
Time Warner Reportedly Buying Into Hulu, Valuing Service at $5 Billion
Time Warner could be joining Comcast, Disney and Fox as part-owner of popular streaming service Hulu. According to the Wall Street Journal, Time Warner is pursuing a stake in Hulu as part of a deal that would value the service at more than $5 billion. In order to allow four companies to hold an equal […]
Playstation Vue Finally Works on Something Other Than a Playstation or an iPad
Sony Playstation has been busy inking content deals for its cloud-based TV service Vue and now the company is expanding device compatibility as well. Sony today announced that Vue is now available for the Amazon Fire TV and Fire Stick, and that Google Chromecast support is coming soon too. This is the first time the […]
Comcast, Time Warner Invest in Virtual Reality Broadcast Company
Comcast and Time Warner are among the investors chipping in on a $30.5 million funding round for NextVR, a company that specializes in broadcasting live events in virtual reality. According to the Wall Street Journal, this isn’t Comcast’s first bet on VR: the operator joined a $10 million funding round for AltspaceVR earlier this year. […]
Cox Signs Licensing Deal for Comcast’s X1 Platform
Cox Communications today deployed a new version of its Contour video service, built around Comcast’s X1 video platform, to its customers in San Diego. The official launch follows successful customer and employee trials of new Contour features including revised user interface, predictive search, mobile apps and the voice-activated remote control. The trials took place in […]
Comcast’s Stream TV Now Available After Delay
Better late than never. Comcast today confirmed that Stream TV, its OTT linear TV product for Xfinity broadband-only subscribers, is finally launching in the Boston area. When Comcast initially announced Stream in July, the operator said it would roll out in Boston by the end of summer 2015, followed shortly after by Chicago and Seattle. […]
T-Mobile Will Allow Unlimited Video Streaming
T-Mobile today confirmed that it will no longer count video streaming against its customers’ data plans. Beginning Nov. 15, 24 popular streaming services will be eligible for Binge On, including Netflix, Hulu, WatchESPN, Sling TV, HBO Now and Showtime. The carrier has said that other services could be added in the future. In addition to […]
Watch Netflix on a 1950s Philco Predicta TV
As part of its annual hackday, a team of Netflix engineers rigged up their service’s content to display on an ancient Philco Predicta TV. The group somehow found a way to navigate Netflix using just two knobs on the end of the TV. A considerable amount of aluminum foil was used in the process and […]
Zayo Buying Viatel’s European Fiber Network
The Zayo Group today announced it is buying Viatel, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dublin-based managed services operator Digiweb Group, for about $102 million. The transaction will give Zayo, a bandwidth and connectivity provider, access to a 5,220 mile fiber network across eight countries. Zayo will get 12 new metro networks, seven data centers and […]
Dish Lost 178K Satellite Subscribers in 3Q, Analyst Says
Dish Network today reported a net loss of 23,000 pay-TV subscribers, a figure that factors in both its core satellite TV product and Sling TV, its OTT linear video offering. Initially, analyst firm MoffettNathanson figured the split came out to about 47,000 subscribers lost from Dish’s satellite TV business and 24,000 subscribers added to its […]