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Google TV Remote App for iOS Devices Hits the App Store
It’s Saturday and I shouldn’t be working, but I am (then I’m off to play some Homefront). I just wanted to let you all know that if you’ve got an iPhone and Google TV you can now use them together. Previously the app was only on Google Android. The Google TV Remote app is now …
Op-Ed in the L.A. Times and NPR Interview
I was very pleased to have an op-ed piece published in the L.A. Times this week, “Pay-TV’s Full-Court Press” in which I explained how the recent Time Warner Cable deal with the L.A. Lakers is going to be very costly for pay-TV subscribers in the L.A. area, whether they are sports fans or not. The …
It’s NCAA March Madness On Demand Season Again
Speaking of sports, Turner Sports, CBS Sports and the NCAA announced this week that March Madness on Demand will be back online and free to users yet again. MMOD is by far the highest-profile sports event offered live online and the NCAA and networks just keep on improving it every year. For the 2011 tournament, …
House Republicans’ Assault on Net Neutrality Begins Next Week
Republicans on Capitol Hill will start their long-stated attempts to overturn the FCC’s net neutrality regulations next Wednesday, with the House Communications & Technology Subcommittee planning a hearing. House Republicans have made no secret of their scorn for the FCC’s net neutrality regulations and seem committed to doing whatever’s necessary to block them from taking …
63% of Online Video Now Available in HTML5
MeFeedia released some interesting research this week, reporting that the universe of online video it indexes (30 million videos at 30,000 sites), shows the percentage of video that is HTML5 compatible is now up to 63%. The key HTML5-compatible formats are H.264, WebM and Ogg. Video formats were already a confusing terrain before Google jumped …
