StreamingMedia Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dijit's NextGuide finally gets personalized TV and streaming video guides right

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 7th, 2012)

Part of the difficulty Apple is going to have with any next-generation, disruptive Apple TV product is corralling all the stakeholders, rights owners and interested parties. Luckily there are already other solutions for finding, watching and saving video on TV or via streaming services. Enter ...

aTV Flash (black) for jailbroken Apple TVs updated with NFS support, more

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 19th, 2012)

FireCore just updated aTV Flash (black), an alternative software package for the second generation Apple TV. With a jailbroken Apple TV and the FireCore software, you can use the media device to surf the web, stream content from a NAS, play back popular media formats (MKV, AVI, MP4) and ...

Plex 2.0 for iOS ramps up video streaming; Plex 0.9.5 for Mac/Windows released as well

by Mel Martin (Nov 1st, 2011)

[Updated to clarify version numbering. iOS Plex app is at 2.0, Mac app is at 0.9.5 or 0.9.5.1 beta.] Plex is an advanced Media Server that runs on your Mac and manages and distributes your audio and video to other computers, a connected TV and your iOS devices via the Plex iOS app. The Plex ...

Rumor: Apple looking at buying Spotify... to incorporate it or close it?

by Sam Abuelsamid (Oct 26th, 2010)

Fans of streaming music service Spotify might not want to read this story. The last time Apple bought such a company, it lived on for about six months before being unceremoniously shuttered. Hopefully if a rumored buyout of Spotify does go through, the service will face a happier outcome than Lala ...

Apple's North Carolina data center nears completion

by Keith M (Oct 5th, 2010)

It seems we've been discussing Apple's upcoming, massive North Carolina datacenter for a long, long time -- since around May 2009, actually. Word is that the $1 billion facility is nearing completion, meaning we'll hopefully see the fruits of Apple's labor very soon. Here's one interesting item ...