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Clicker Launches HTML5 Interface for Watching Online TV in the Living Room
Clicker, the Web service that aims to be the TV Guide for Internet television, just launched Clicker.tv at Google I/O. Clicker.tv is a new HTML5-based interface for Clicker's programming guide that is optimized for the "10-foot viewing experience" on a big screen in the living room. Google chose to highlight Clicker during today's I/O keynote because of its innovative use of HTML5 to create an easy-to-use interface that gives its users access to a large catalog of online video.
Boxee Secures $6 Million Funding Round - Gets Ready to Take Over the Living Room
Boxee just announced that the company has closed a $6 million Series B financing round led by Boston-based General Catalyst with participation by prior investors Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. Neil Sequeira from General Catalyst will join the Boxee board. Boxee will use this money to hire more developers as it gets ready to expand beyond the desktop and work on embedded versions for connected TVs, game consoles, and set-top boxes. In addition, Boxee plans to attract more content from independent producers and big media companies to its platform by offering ad-based and subscription-based services to them.
Cable Companies Want to Control Online TV: Now This Sounds Like a Bad Idea
Enjoy the online TV party while it lasts, because if it is up to your favorite cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner, access to TV shows might soon go behind a paywall that will be controlled by cable or satellite TV providers. Just as the newspaper industry doesn't know how to react to the new challenges posed by the Internet, the cable industry, too, is trying to remain relevant in a world where appointment TV is a thing of the past. This is due to the proliferation of DVRs where TV networks and producers can just put their content on the web and users can watch these shows on their TVs and in their living rooms thanks to cheap hardware devices from Apple and Roku, and software like Boxee.
Disney Comes to Hulu
This morning, Hulu and Disney announced that Disney will join NBC Universal, News Corp., and Providence Equity Partners as a joint venture partner and equity holder of Hulu. Thanks to this, Hulu will now be able to feature shows from ABC's prime-time lineup like "Lost," "Grey's Anatomy," and "Private Practice," as well as shows from ABC Daytime and SOAPnet. Hulu will also now feature a select number of programs from the Disney Channel and library titles from Disney.
Win a Free Ticket to NewTeeVee Live
Our friends at Gigaom are running the second annual NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco on November 13, 2008. It's an event focused on the online video arena and we have one free ticket to giveaway. To be in to win, all you need to do is leave a comment here telling us what your current favorite online tv or movie service is - and why. Is it Hulu? Joost? TVGuide? Or something else. We'd love to know. We also have a special discount code below for RWW readers.
FFWD: A Remote Control For Internet Video
Directly after Invision.tv's demo, another startup with a similar goal presented: ffwd (pronounced "fast forward"). Like Invision.tv, their web app also offers you a way to browse through internet video from one portal - the site at ffwd.com. However, their take on how this browsing should look and feel is a bit different. Which one will you like better?
Olympics: Only 0.2% of Viewers Exclusively Watch Online
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Olympics are off to a good, but not amazing start on the Internet. Over the first three days, NBC's online coverage drew an average of 4.7 million viewers per day, with the numbers steadily rising over the weekend. So far, Sunday was the most watched day, with 5.1 million total users and 3.42 million streams. According to the same article, only 0.2% of all viewers exclusively used the Internet to watch the Games, while 90% used the traditional TV coverage exclusively and 10% used both the Internet and TV.
TidalTV Stealthily Launches Public Beta
Not much has been known about TidalTV, a Baltimore, Maryland-based broadband video startup, besides the fact that they had plans to launch a "professionally produced, branded programming" service which would run through the browser. In February of this year, the company secured $15 million in funding, but there was still a lot of confusion about what exactly TidalTV would be offering. It appears that we don't need to wait any longer to find out - TidalTV has now launched.
Poll: Are You Still Watching Cable TV?
Chris Albrecht has a post on NewTeeVee this morning asking for suggestions to help him break up with cable. Even though cable prices have gone up 77 percent since 1996, which according to the New York Times is nearly twice the rate of inflation, many people are having trouble kicking the habit. "I hate dealing with the cable company, but I just can't seem to break up with it," says Albrecht. There are plenty of options out there, how have you cut the cord?
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