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Have you been using a HBO Go password that’s not yours? It’s okay, you don’t have to feel shady about it any more. HBO is totally down with you sharing your password. In fact, they seem to like the idea. HBO CEO Richard Plepler, sounding like your normal run-of-the mill meth dealer stated, “We’re in…
HBO just posted the first trailer for the highly anticipated Game of Thrones Season 4, and took to Snapchat to announce that the media giant will make the Season 3 Girls premiere available to view on YouTube. That’s pretty awesome news after the cold, dark winter we’ve all been suffering through. The Game of Thrones…
While we didn’t see a new Apple TV at Apple’s WWDC last year, Apple is by no means writing the platform off. A number of channels have been added to Apple TV today, keeping the streaming media box competitive against the likes of Roku and Google TV enabled streaming boxes. Apple added the ability to…
Last night’s Breaking Bad series finale was something for the history books, clocking 500,000 pirated downloads just 12 hours after the first copy appeared online. Most users who pirate shows and movies do so because of availability issues, which is common outside of the U.S. But the numbers do show the other side of downloading,…
Two of the largest carriers in Canada, Rogers and Bell, are bringing additional live TV content to their customers’ devices. Actually, the two are not only adding new but also swapping existing channels to provide even more choices o the users. For instance, Rogers expanded its portfolio with the addition of TSN and TSN2, as…
In its latest study, Juniper Research is looking at prospects of mobile TV and video services. The research firm forecasts that by 2017, revenues from these services on mobile and tablet devices will reach $9.5 billion, up from $4.5 billion this year. According to their findings, this growth will come as a result of the…
Hulu has made some radical changes to its Hulu Plus app for the iPad today, bringing a visual redesign and features that make discovering new content easier than ever. Here’s the full changelog of what’s new in Hulu Plus 3.0 for iOS: Minimize a video during playback by tapping the minimize icon or “pinching” the…
DirecTV subscribers who own Android tablets now have a new way to manage their viewing experience. The DirecTV Android app had been previously released for smartphones, but has now been optimized and released for Android tablets. The app will allow users to view programming from any room in their home, and will include the AUDIENCE…
SPB TV is unveiling it next-gen multi-screen TV solution, SPB TV Media Platform 5.0, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that includes improved mobile apps for all major platforms as well an over-the-top web-based interface that works on all Internet-connected devices. Each mobile app version is “perfectly tailored” for its mobile OS’ look and feel…
VIZIO once again issued a press release on the VIZIO Co-Star Stream Player, reminding the world about its Google TV product which was initially introduced at this year’s CES in Las Vegas. The compact device comes with a dual-faced universal remote that has standard numeric keys and a trackpad on one end, and full QWERTY…