Audio Video News

Microsoft Will Use DRM on UHD streaming with PlayReady 3.0. This might embolden studios to stream UHD through Windows 10...

Hulu Paid $180 Million for the right to stream all nine seasons of Seinfeld and cut another deal for rights to all AMC series. Hulu is also ditching the Hulu Plus brand for its paid service, which is now just Hulu ...

CES Attendance Will Be Capped at 176,000 for 2016. Apparently 2015’s record of 176,676 was as much as the mega-show and Las Vegas can handle...

Apple Won’t Do Ultra HD in the forthcoming third generation of the Apple TV streaming box. Not mainstream enough, reports Buzzfeed...

Streaming Video will grow 26 percent this year. That’ll leave old-school pay-TV in the dust, growing by just 3.7 percent through 2020...

DirecTV 15, the new satellite launched in May, will firm up the company’s Ultra HD plans. DirecTV 14, launched in December, is busy with VOD and live streaming...

Satellite Will Surpass Cable as the pay-TV supplier of choice in 2015, forecasts Digital TV Research. However, TiVo reports that more of the cord-cutters using its Roamio antenna DVR are coming from satellite than from cable...

Charter Bought Bright House for $10.4 billion. Time Warner Cable is also reportedly open to mind-melding with Charter, the TWC-Comcast merger having collapsed under regulatory scrutiny...

Comcast’s Voice-Activated Remote, the XR11, will work with its cloud-based IP platform. Press the remote’s blue mic button to pick channels or search for TV shows and movies via VOD, DVR, or live TV...

Comcast’s Gigabit Pro ISP service is rolling out in the Atlanta area and aims to reach 1.5 million customers initially. Several California metro areas are slated to follow in June...

Time Warner Cable Added Live streaming of 300 TV channels to the TWC TV app on Xbox One. Nipping at TWC’s heels, the AT&T U-verse app added 41 live channels to its TV Everywhere app, for a total of 236...