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Time Warner Cable, Viacom settle dispute over TV iPad app

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 17th, 2012)

Time Warner Cable and Viacom announced in a joint press release that the two companies have resolved their disagreement over video streaming to mobile devices. Details of the settlement were not announced. The new-found friendliness means Viacom shows like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart will ...

Netflix updates iPad app for Retina display

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 21st, 2012)

Updated to clarify that the app changes affect UI elements only, not video quality. Netflix has rolled out the Retina-ready version of its video streaming app for the iPad. You can grab it for free from iTunes. The video service requires a minimum $7.99 monthly subscription. Of course, the ...

Daily Update for March 12, 2012

by Steven Sande (Mar 12th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires ...

YTLive web app lets you watch YouTube Live broadcasts on your iOS device

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 22nd, 2011)

YouTube entered the live video streaming market with the launch of its YouTube Live service earlier this month. The high-profile video site is competing against similar live stream services, such as Ustream and Justin.tv. Unlike its competitors, YouTube Live uses only Flash technology to ...

Don't hold your breath for an Apple video streaming service

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 12th, 2011)

Flickr image by tpholland I'm pretty convinced every time an analyst opens his or her mouth about Apple and we post it, a kitten is eaten by a bear somewhere*. This week's "Wacky Analyst Random Rumormongering" comes from Jefferies analyst Peter Misek who claims that Apple is about to launch ...

Plex 1.1 for iOS adds functionality, interface changes

by Chris Ward (Apr 9th, 2011)

Put simply, Plex version 1.1 is everything that FrontRow should be. For a start, it streams to your iDevice, presents plenty of online media ... you get the idea. The only advantage FrontRow has is price, and at US$4.99 Plex probably won't break the bank. The latest version includes many new and ...

Orb TV streams video from your Mac to your TV

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 23rd, 2011)

I've been playing around with the US$99 Orb TV for a few weeks now, and I have to say I'm quite impressed with it. For those of you not familiar with it, Orb TV is a media streamer that connects to your TV and lets you play any video from your computer to your television. It's shaped like a hockey ...

Hauppauge announces Broadway: live TV streaming for iPhones and iPads

by Mel Martin (Jan 12th, 2011)

Here's another solution for streaming TV in your home or over 3G: Hauppauge Computer Works has just announced the new Broadway box. The US$199 device has a built-in HD H.264 video compressor, an ATSC tuner for local broadcasts and support for QAM digital cable, so if that's all you want, the box can ...

Wirecast 4 delivers live video switching, webcast streaming

by Sam Abuelsamid (Nov 14th, 2010)

The cost of doing live TV-style production has plummeted in the past decade. Not so long ago, doing a live multi-camera shoot would require a studio and switching equipment that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars or more. Then along came the NewTek Tricaster, which delivered much of the ...

Justin.TV live streaming iPhone app now available

by Josh Helfferich (Sep 17th, 2010)

Livebloggers, rejoice! Justin.TV, one of the world's most popular live video streaming services, has released its new app for the iPhone and iPod touch in the form of an upgrade that enables live video to stream from the device. Both the app and service are free, but the app only works on devices ...

Roku cuts price of media players in possible anticipation of new Apple TV

by Mel Martin (Aug 31st, 2010)

Maybe it's coincidence, but probably not. On the eve of a rumored announcement of an updated US $99.00 Apple TV, Roku has cut the price of its media players. The standard definition model has been slashed $20 to $59.99, and the high definition model has been trimmed by $30 to $99.99. The Roku ...

Slate comes to the iPhone, along with a lot of advertising

by Mel Martin (Mar 9th, 2010)

I've always liked Slate Magazine on the web. It's sometimes sassy and irreverent, but always interesting -- an eclectic mix of politics, culture and tech news. Now, Slate has come to the iPhone in a US$1.99 app that features all the articles from the site, as well as the blog posts, staff tweets ...

That was Qik! After Ustream's debut in App Store, Qik submits streaming app

by Steven Sande (Dec 10th, 2009)

We were all a bit surprised when Ustream's free Live Broadcasting iPhone app [iTunes Link] was approved by Apple and tossed into the App Store yesterday. After all, it wasn't that long ago that it seemed that no streaming video apps would ever be approved for the iPhone platform due to AT&T's ...

Streaming video from your iPhone? They crippled the app for that.

by Mel Martin (Aug 15th, 2009)

Qik [iTunes link] is an eagerly awaited free app for the iPhone. Most other video capable phones have a version of it. Qik allows, among other things, live streaming from your phone to the web. How could someone not want that capability? Early on, Qik offered a version for jailbroken phones that ...