Tag: Hulu
DirecTV could be in the bidding war for Hulu
It seems there is a lot of interest in Hulu the second time around, with Yahoo, Amazon, Apple and Google all possible bidders for the media streaming service. DirecTV is the newest bidder, after previously failing to capture Hulu, they have reportedly put in a second bid in the hopes of claiming the giant, currently [...]
Yahoo reportedly makes bid for Hulu
Yahoo has been in preliminary talks with Hulu over a possible acquisition and Marissa Mayer is currently in informal meetings with the company about content deals and how Hulu would work with Yahoo. The possibility of an acquisition could be very possible, according to AllThingsD, even though Hulu is wanted by more than one buyer. Former News [...]
HP Introduces The Pocket Playlist
HP has announced a new portable media device called the Pocket Playlist. The Pocket Playlist streams unencrypted content such as audio, video, and photo files to smartphones and tablets through a Wi-Fi connection. Its internal hard disk, which has a capacity of 32GB, can save up to 7,600 music files, 10,000 images, or 16 full-length movies, [...]
Hulu Plus To Select Android Tablets
If you’re using Hulu Plus to stay up to date with all your favorite tv programs you may be pleased to know that the Hulu+ app is now available for select Android tablets. Like Netflix, Hulu needs to make sure that the viewing experience is at it’s optimum performance for each of the nearly 1,000 [...]
Turn Any Browser Into A Smart TV With Clik TV For Android
A new TV platform and application has surfaced and it has some huge power behind it. Clik TV is the brain child of the original founders at Kik Messenger. If you’re not familiar with Kik Messenger it’s a cross-platform messenger with tens of millions of users. They made some big noise last year in a [...]
Netflix First Produced Show Lilyhammer Now Available
Last year Netflix announced that they were going to add their own Netflix produced content to the thousands and thousands of shows and movies available on the Netflix platform. Their first show, Lilyhammer, is now available. Lilyhammer is a story about a former mob guy, played by Steve Van Zandt, from Sopranos and Bruce Springsteen’s [...]
Netflix Now Supporting All Android Devices 2.2 And Higher
A lot was supposed to change come September 1st for Netflix users. That was the date that the DVD and streaming programs were split apart and now customers need to pay more if they want the ease of Netflix streaming service along with the DVD at home service. Netflix is trying to get customers to [...]
Netflix Starts Enforcing One Stream At A Time Rule
A couple of months ago Netflx announced some major restructuring, for the most part affecting customers on DVD plans. These changes went in effect on September 1st. It seems that same day Netflix started enforcing their one stream at a time policy. Although Netflix rules always called for one stream at a time, many customers [...]
Hulu Plus Coming To Vizio Tablet First
NetFlix is starting to show up all over the place in the world of Android. We’ve also gotten word that Hulu Plus is working with select Android phones. As far as officially endorsed Android tablets, Hulu Plus is headed to the Vizio tablet first. Vizio’s 8″ tablet comes with Android 2.3, Gingerbread, instead of Android [...]
HBO Releases Max Go For Cinemax Subscribers
After a successful spring launch of HBO’s signature app, HBO Go, the fine folks at HBO are back at it again. This time they are expanding the Go concept to Cinemax subscribers. HBO Go actually made it to Android before NetFlix did and allowed a superior streaming performance to any HBO subscriber who accessed the [...]
Droid TV Fixed For Prime Time Subscribers, Now Available To New Subscribers Too
The developers at PVRcom LLC had come up with a great DVR type tv app for Android. It was simple and easy to use. Droid TV gave you a tv guide of shows that you could select and you could record the episodes that you want or elect to record the whole season and as [...]
Hulu Plus Now Playing On More Android Devices
Back on June 23, Hulu Plus came to Android in a limited release. For launch Hulu Plus was supported by the Nexus One, Nexus S, HTC Inspire 4G, Motorola Droid II, Droid X and the Motorola Atrix. Hulu, like Netflix, chose this route to make sure the initial Android app worked well on each device [...]
Hulu Adds Blackberry Playbook To Blacklist
While Android users have been waiting for the opportunity to use Hulu on their devices, the Blackberry Playbook was able to stream shows and movies but only for a short time. Since then Hulu has blocked their site from being viewable in the Playbook’s native browser.
