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Hurrah - 4oD (4 on Demand) is now available on the Roku in the UK! It looks like this is breaking news as there's no mention of it on either Roku's or Channel 4's websites and I only happened to notice when I was checking for new channels. A few tweets are beginning to appear. Having a quick rummage, it
OTT, short for “over-the-top-television” is an up-and-coming acronym that we are all likely going to become familiar with in the near future, provided someone doesn’t come up with a different marketing name. The concept is simple – it’s TV that comes “over the top” of traditional channels on a cable system via the Internet delivered in digital packets. It can
Okay, it's been three days of watching the Tour de France online and my experience has been less than perfect. The audio has been fine, but the video has been, mostly, bad. The Prologue, on Saturday, froze continuously while we tried to watch the On-Demand version. Yesterday's Stage 1 was pretty close to prefect. Today's Stage 2 was great until
While the world is buzzing about the Soccer World Cup and the vuvuzela, I will be following the OTHER big European sport - cycling. Being a cycling fan in America isn't easy. While the big races are covered live on all of the big Euro TV networks, America has only sporadic coverage on Versus and Universal Sports. Now, since I
The once-king of movie rentals is now losing on market share big. Their online rental system is non-existent, thanks to a patent battle win by Netflix in 2006. So how can Blockbuster cure part of their problems? Maybe sell to Google? Back in 1985, David Cook put together the first Blockbuster store in Dallas, Texas. Scott Beck, John Melk and