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Disney announced that it will launch its own streaming services. This comes as a result of an acquisition and may affect some of the Disney-owned content that is available on Netflix. The Walt Disney Company announced today that it has agreed to acquire majority ownership of BAMTech, LLC and will launch its ESPN-branded multi-sport streaming service in early 2018, followed by
If you aren't familiar with PlayOn, It is a portal to over 100 streaming websites, allowing you watch multiple shows. And the Cloud acts as a DVR, allowing you to download shows and then watch, even offline. Now that Cloud capability comes to the Android platform. This includes shows on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, Yahoo View, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, HBO NOW,
NewTek and Wowza Media Systems announced the immediate availability of MediaDS, a revolutionary real-time encoding and live streaming video delivery system. MediaDS is a hardware and software solution merging NewTek's industry-leading live production technology with the powerful, proven Wowza streaming software in an IRU footprint. The result is the industry's first end-to-end streaming solution to allow producers to launch their own multi-channel content networks
Fasetto are making good on their promises from last year's CES with the announcement of the Fasetto Link, a palm-sized pocket NAS and communications hotspot. Building on the Fasetto's cross-platform cloud storage, the Link is a 2" by 1" cuboid, packing in a maximum of 2 TB of storage and a range of communication technologies, including WiFi, Bluetooth and LTE.
When it comes to media streaming via hardware, it's a four way fight for your eyeballs between Roku, Apple TV, Amazon's Fire TV and Google's Chromecast. The most recent entrant, Amazon and the Fire TV, came to the UK in October 2014 and I reviewed one of the boxes back in January 2015. Over eighteen months later, Amazon's Instant Video
Roku have announced an almost total revamp of their streaming player range with new products filling five of the six slots in their line-up. The new models are the Roku Express, Express+, Premiere, Premiere+ and Ultra, with only the recently updated (April) Roku Streaming Stick keeping its place. The new entry level, the Roku Express, costs only US$29.99 while providing 1080p
Streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Sky's Now TV might have overtaken DVRs, DVDs and Blu-ray but I've discovered that physical discs have one major advantage.....no-one can take away the film until you're finished watching (excepting small children and drunken relatives). Our family subscribes to a streaming service, and while I normally watch a film or episode in a