The live web-streaming of a newsmaker lessens the need to explain a low physical turn out.
Given the increasing range of options for web-based streaming services, its high-resolution display extends the appeal of video entertainment to those who value simplicity, security and ease of management over a breadth of functionality.
With up to six months of ad-free web streaming available upon sign-up, music lovers in these markets can organically discover a great number of artists and bands.
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Ultra-fast web browsing and streaming with built-in dual-band, dual-antenna Wi-Fi.
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Redbox parent Coinstar and joint venture partner Verizon this morning revealed some details on their plans for Redbox Instant by Verizon, their long-planned streaming video service that will compete head-to-head with Netflix, Hulu and other Web-based movie and TV streaming businesses.
The live opera stream is the first web-based platform for streaming classical productions from the Austrian capital.
The NVIDIA Icera 410 LTE modem delivers lightning-fast web browsing, video streaming and multiplayer gaming to tablets and clamshell devices.
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But in heavier use, including lots of email usage and Web browsing, streaming a one-hour TV show via Netflix, and conducting an hour-long phone call, the battery drained more quickly and was almost gone by late in the afternoon.
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As the newest addition to the NETGEAR family of streaming players for connected home theater entertainment, NeoTV PRIME enables you to easily find what you love to watch - whether it's on live TV, streaming entertainment, apps, or the web- using one small NeoTV player.
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Any customer with a Kindle Fire, Android device, iPhone, iPod touch, or any web browser - and soon, a Roku streaming player or Sonos home entertainment system - can play their music anywhere.
Now Bittorrent, the company that Cohen founded, offers a more legitimate--and more lucrative--application: powering the Web's streaming online video.
"By partnering with Roku, and developing a line of new Mitsubishi TVs that will support their new Roku Streaming Stick, we will be able to offer the best big screen TVs and the most powerful internet streaming device together, bringing web-based entertainment to a whole new level for our customers, " said James Chan, vice president of marketing, Mitsubishi Electric Visual Solutions America (MEVSA), Inc.
In addition, Rdio has announced that the extended free web offer is now available to Brazil - currently the streaming service's third biggest market and its fastest growing territory in terms new users.
ENGADGET: Rdio on iPhone now shows which friends are listening, web streaming hits seven countries
To be sure, other acts are live-streaming their audio and video via the web.
As wireless customers spend less money on plain-vanilla cellphone voice calls, carriers are betting that data and entertainment services like text messaging, over-the-air music stores, streaming video and mobile Web browsing will lead growth.
Let's say, for example, that a customer's connection is fine for browsing the web, but it doesn't pass muster for streaming content -- a service dedicated to video delivery could be added to close the gap.
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Think of it: behind every iPhone is a user tapping into the 3G network for Web surfing and, increasingly, high-bandwidth applications such as HD video streaming.
Adobe streaming technologies will support MPEG-DASH, a set of emerging standards for streaming multimedia content over the Web that will help reduce technology fragmentation.
The new Dish Anywhere app is your portal for live streaming, powered by Sling, along with on-demand content direct from the web.
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The Mars Curiosity mission featured a Reddit AMA, a weird web-video featuring a woman in an American flag bikini and a robot head, as well as streaming video of the landing.
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The Democratic Web site, www.dems2000.com, also features live streaming video of the convention and four 360-degree "be here" cameras, which allow users to control the viewing angles on the podium and the floor.
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With 8 million people watching the live streaming event, the jump was the most-watched live event ever on the Google-owned web site.
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