TVSync's Open Platform Weds Social TV & E-Commerce
Social TV has a new player that's worth watching. Last month, Vobile launched TVSync, an open platform that introduces new broadcast and cable TV streaming options. TVSync could finally do what...
View ArticleCharlie Bites Finger, Nabs $500,000 & Fuels TV's Online Future
Web video is finally growing up. The family behind the wildly viral "Charlie Bit My Finger" YouTube video is getting its own professional Web series, according to PaidContent. The 2007 video spawned...
View ArticleBoxee's Anti-Cable Gamble Could One-Up Apple's TV Plans
Whatever Apple is planning to do in with TV, it had better get busy. Boxee is planning to launch the second generation of its streaming set-top box, replacing 2010's Boxee Box with a device that sports...
View ArticleMobile Election Coverage Still Can't Match TV
Call this the first Post-PC U.S. presidential election.Sure, in 2008 we had iPhones and Android was celebrating its first birthday, but the smartphone revolution was just beginning and the iPad was...
View ArticleAirPlaying Hurricane Sandy: How One Cord Cutter Fared
Miraculously, my block in northern Philadelphia was spared from Hurricane Sandy's worst. As word of nearby power outages spread on Twitter, I was certain I'd wake up to a dark, powerless house on...
View ArticleDrowning Cable Industry Grabs At Tech Lifeline = Big Mistake?
In a move that's sure to be considered as brilliant as slapping the plans for a Death Star into a small R2 droid to deliver them halfway across a galaxy far, far away, the U.S. cable industry is...
View ArticleDid Amazon Just Launch a Netflix Killer? Hardly.
Amazon is gunning for Netlix and Hulu. That's been the conventional wisdom anyway, with many expecting the ecommerce giant to launch a stand-alone video streaming service to compete with those...
View ArticleYouTube Weeds Its Shows As Google Cultivates TV Strategy
Don't think YouTube is any less serious about becoming your next favorite TV channel. Sure, it's slashing the number of Web shows it's funding, but that only means it's sharpening its focus. 2013 is...
View ArticleGoogle Mimics AirPlay, Apple TV's Best Feature
AirPlay - the wireless screen-mirroring feature that allows people to beam video from their iPhones and iPads to their televisions is by far the best feature of Apple TV. Google just borrowed the...
View ArticleReadWrite DeathWatch: Sharp
After 100 years of innovation, Sharp is the worst-performing company in the world. In the end, its lack of consumer focus sealed the deal.The Basics100 years ago, a metalworker and inventor named...
View ArticleYouTube On The Wii -- Another Step Toward The New World Of TV
Good news: If you're hoping to show your grandma that awesome cat video this holiday season, you probably won't have to huddle around a computer or tablet screen. As yet another confirmation of the...
View ArticleWeb Celebrity Toby Turner Fired From His Own Show: Has YouTube Gone Corporate?
Blame it on the rise of corporate YouTube: Web celebrity Toby Turner was fired from his own CuteWinFail show sometime last week. CuteWinFail - the show Turner created with YouTube businessman and...
View ArticleWho Needs Cable? 3 iPad Apps That Glue Me To My TV
The Internet may be changing TV, but it is nowhere close to completely disrupting it.Why's that? In a word, content.Web videos can rack up millions of views (and millions of dollars), but the Web isn't...
View Article5 Ways TV Will Evolve in 2013
If you were expecting the Internet to upend TV like it mangled the print media business, you may have noticed by now that things aren't so simple. The Web is very good at delivering text and static...
View ArticleWatch Out! New Video Law Lets Netflix Share What You're Viewing
It passed the House, the Senate, and just before the new year, the President signed it into law. In a significant shift in video privacy - online video rental companies can now share information about...
View Article6 Reasons This Could Be The Most Boring CES Ever
ReadWrite's Taylor Hatmaker is right about one thing: 2013 should indeed be a unusual year for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), as the industry struggles to find the next big thing.(Read CES 2013:...
View ArticleCeleb Sighting Bingo! CES 2013's Zany Celebrity Lineup Grab Bag
As the annual Consumer Electronics Show grows away from its humble roots as, you know, a consumer electronics show, its focus increasingly turns to things altogether unrelated to technology - like...
View ArticleWhat The Hell Is A Qube?
Since there weren't already enough strangely shaped, wireless computers to plug into your television, Asus on Monday announced a new one at CES called the Qube. It's a Google TV-powered device, but...
View ArticleAereo Is Expanding To 22 More Cities: Are You Ready To Watch Broadcast TV...
Aereo, Barry Diller's uber-controversial Internet TV service currently available only in New York, is expanding. This spring, consumers in 22 more U.S. cities will get the ability to tune into...
View ArticleFor Consumers, Cisco's Vision For TV Means Paying A Lot More
Cisco grabbed some of the limelight at the Consumer Electronics Show by unveiling a cloud-based video platform for service providers like cable TV companies. A lot of hubbub was made over technology,...
View ArticleSorry Kids, Mom And Dad p0wn You On The Net [Infographic]
Which generation rules the Internet? Conventional wisdom has it that the Millennials are the most connected cohort in history. The only problem is that the conventional wisdom may not be true. The...
View ArticleSmosh: The Once & Future Kings Of YouTube
Top YouTuber Ray William Johnson has been dethroned as the most popular YouTuber by Smosh, the manic comedy duo comprised of Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla. It took 6.8 million subscribers grab the...
View ArticleHow To Watch President Obama's 2013 State Of The Union Address Online
Unless you're Tim Cook, you probably don't have a front row seat lined up for President Obama's State of the Union (SOTU) address on Tuesday night. That's okay though, because the ever-more-interactive...
View ArticleNielsen Redefines "TV" To Include Your iPad And Xbox
It's been 63 years since Nielsen started measuring what we're watching on TV. For most of that time, the concept of "TV" has pretty much remained the same. But in the last half decade, the old model...
View ArticlePlease Stop Saying YouTube Is Trying To Compete With Television
Out of all the lines the press uses to describe Google’s interests in funding better content on its biggest social platform, the dominant one by far is: “YouTube is trying to compete with...
View ArticleAereo Legal Victory Means Disruption For More Than Broadcasters
An ongoing court battle may decide the fate of an upstart programming provider that could prove to be disruptive to broadcasters and even other services that provide ways for cable cutters to obtain...
View ArticleWhy I Need Aereo TV — And You Do, Too [Review]
The first time you launch Aereo, you start to see why TV network executives are losing their minds. It's not because the service feels like it's doing anything wrong. Quite the opposite. For the...
View ArticleDish Network/Sprint Combination: Good Or Bad For Consumers?
Sprint is turning out to be the prettiest girl at the ball. Or at least the most available, anyway.Following Japanese mobile carrier Softbank's bid to acquire Sprint, the No. 3 mobile operator in the...
View ArticleThe Internet Assault On Traditional TV Is Working
Compared to the music and news industries, the television business has so far managed to avoid being upended by the disruptive forces of the Internet. That's about to change.Despite the industry's...
View ArticleDo We Really Need Amazon TV? No, But Amazon Does
Whether we want one or not, Amazon is building a connected TV set top box for us, according to BusinessWeek. The so-called Amazon TV device will stream Internet video to our televisions, presumably...
View ArticleAmazon's 'Betas': The Show That Could Be A 'Cheers' For Silicon Valley
Over time, great cities tend to inspire their own iconic comedies: New York's Seinfeld. Boston's Cheers. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Now Betas is the show that could put Silicon Valley on the...
View ArticleGood News, Everyone! It's The 10 Best Inventions From Futurama
Futurama, the animated comedy from Simpsons creator Matt Groening and writer David X. Cohen, is unparalleled in its ability to mix lowbrow humor with high concept science and technology. But after an...
View Article2013: The Year Internet TV Went Mainstream
Something huge is happening in online TV this year. No, it's not a new streaming set top box or Web-exclusive video series. It's not even an app. It's a milestone: 2013 is the year that Internet-first...
View ArticleRecessed Outlets: A Great Way To Hide Messy Gadget Cords
This post was originally published on our SAY Media sister site, Remodelista. We're republishing it with permission.We've all been there. You want to push a piece of furniture or a countertop appliance...
View Article10 Classic TV Shows You Still Can't Watch Online
Online television offers a truly dizzying array of choices. Viewers of services like Hulu and Netflix, as well as customers of iTunes and Amazon Digital Services, can stream, rent or purchase episodes...
View ArticleGoogle Has A Trojan Horse To Disrupt TV: Really, Really Big Data
It's a huge year for TV's future. Yet for all the excitement about Web-first soap operas, data-driven programming and the disruption of broadcast, the Internet TV "inflection point" that 2013 has...
View Article10 TV Shows That Really Inspired Geeks
Americans watch about 40 hours of television every single week. Even in the Internet Age, television remains a cultural force, a unifying voice and quite possibly our chief storyteller. Do not view...
View ArticleThe New Mad Men Of Advertising Are... Everywhere
Crowdsourced advertising platforms - some with Silicon Valley backing - are sprouting up to liberate untapped talent from around the world and remake television (and video) advertising. Companies such...
View ArticleSamsung's Boxee Buy: Another Promising Start-Up Bites The Dust
The unexpected news that Samsung has acquired the video-startup Boxee—reportedly for $30 million—is supposedly a plus for the South Korean company's smart TV plans. In fact, though, it's a likely death...
View ArticleBBC Freezes 3D TV Trial
British eyeballs can rest easy now. The BBC is putting its two-year 3D television pilot program on hold, citing lack of viewer interest. When the Dr. Who 50th anniversary show airs during the 2013...
View ArticleGoogle Reportedly In Search Of Programming For An Online TV Service
Google is meeting with media companies to pitch an upcoming Internet TV service, a so-called over-the-top package that would offer cable-channel bundles over online connections, the Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleGrab The Popcorn, It’s Time for LG’s 100-Inch Laser TV
This post is sponsored by LG. As a promotional post, it reflects the views of the writer, not ReadWrite's editors.More and more people seem to be spending time in their man-caves enjoying the fruits of...
View ArticleCBS, Time Warner Cable End TV Dispute
The CBS television network and other channels controlled by its parents returned to Time Warner Cable systems Monday evening, after the companies resolved an ongoing dispute. One key issue: Whether CBS...
View ArticleChromecast, Two Months Later: Where Are The Apps? [Updated]
Update October 2, 2013: A new Chromecast source has joined the lineup: Hulu Plus now officially supports streaming to Google's device. For more, visit this link. When Google took the wraps off its...
View ArticleThe Chromecast App Drought Breaks, Sort Of, As Hulu Signs On
Google has broken the two-month drought on Chromecast apps by bringing on Hulu as an official supporter of its TV streaming device. See also: Chromecast, Two Months Later: Where Are The Apps?Both...
View ArticleGo On, Guess What Amazon's Top-Selling Gadget Is Right Now
We may live in a mobile-obsessed world, but it turns out the best-selling consumer-electronics gadget on Amazon isn't made by Apple or Samsung. Neither is it a Kindle—which is kind of shocking, given...
View ArticleWho Cares About 4K TVs?
If you believe the hype around the Consumer Electronics Show, 4K television is all the rage. TV makers have long hoped to spark demand for so-called ultra HD televisions, and this time around, they’re...
View ArticleAereo Loses At The Supreme Court In Landmark Tech Copyright Case
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling against Aereo, a video startup founded in 2012 that streams both live and delayed television broadcasts to paying subscribers. See also: To...
View Article4K Ultra HD TV: What You Can Watch Right Now
Television's latest upgrade, 4K Ultra High Definition, is both awesome and increasingly affordable. (See my earlier piece for details.) I just bought one on sale. Now I’m scrounging around to find...
View Article4K Ultra HD TV: How It Works And What You'll Need To Watch It
Just a few short months ago, you'd have been stupid—or at least carelessly wealthy—to buy an Ultra HD TV, or 4K television. There were so few 4K videos available that it was nearly impossible to...
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