This could breathe new life not just into Netflix, but the idea of online TV itself.
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Seventy-five percent of 18-24 year olds watch online TV shows or movies weekly, up from 62 percent last year.
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Technology was a crucial factor in this change, including DVDs, TiVo, and the emergence of a vibrant online TV-fan community.
Sony is rumored to be developing its own online TV service to compete with cable, something it would feature heavily on a new PlayStation.
This past September in Tokyo, Sony launched CoCoon, another Linux-based software that links online TV programming guides with viewers selected shows and entertainment tastes.
The group claims that a stepped set of packages is the only way in which the high-speed industry can survive the coming hellstorm of your online TV viewing and rampant MP3 downloads.
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The battle for the online TV market has gathered pace this year after BT joined forces with other big names in the industry such as BBC to develop YouView, an internet connected set-top box.
Sky's director of corporate affairs, Graham McWilliam, has called it "nothing short of BBC mission creep" while Virgin Media lodged a complaint with media regulator Ofcom in August saying it was anti-competitive and could destroy the online TV market.
So last year, the company retired Quixtar and reintroduced Amway with print, radio, online and TV ads.
Victoria Jaye, BBC's head of TV online content, said it would help to explore "storytelling outside of a scheduled TV slot or duration".
GenX looks about equally to online, local TV and national TV for their news.
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Until now mostly young people have been cancelling their cable TV service in favor of watching TV online.
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The video itself was a spoof of the different kinds of personalities one might find online or on TV.
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Tesco is the first retailer in the UK to reward its customers with their own online movie and TV service.
Aereo would allow consumers to watch and record broadcast TV online by hooking up a small antenna to an Internet connection.
The Verizon multi-screen experience also includes bringing online content to TV sets.
That rivalry is likely to be on full display in May, when some of the online giants and TV networks go head to head with glitzy events aimed at wooing advertisers.
Roku users will, from today, be able to find NOW TV within the Roku Channel Store and once registered for NOW TV online will be able to access the movies they choose instantly.
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The economics of TV have forced program quality down, news is now universally available online, and cable TV bills keep rising as the value I place on television has crashed.
Plus, FiOS TV DVR subscribers can search and enjoy online videos from blip.tv, Dailymotion and Veoh on their home-entertainment systems.
This week we released our newest report, The Fight To Control The TV Becomes A Platform War, describing the 32 million consumer households in the US that watch online video on a TV set.
Launched in 2007, Google TV Ads is an online platform that lets marketers buy national cable TV ads.
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But it has been losing market share since then as a result of competition from satellite pay-TV providers and telecom operators as well as budding online platforms like Netflix and Google TV.
Already integrated into tablets, smartphones and online, the Connected TV app fully completes the portfolio.
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We need to find ways to determine what the online equivalent of good TV shows are.
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Xfinity On Demand offers the ultimate in TV series catch-up featuring over 270, 000 content choices on TV and online.
Plenty of companies do sell rival boxes to deliver online video to the TV: Cisco, Google, Apple, TiVo, Sony, Roku.
But more than that, it fails to integrate the broadcast TV and online worlds in the way that competing platforms do.
It left Hennessy with no choice but to pursue other options resulting in a live deal being struck with online broadcasters Omnisport.tv.
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