Posts Tagged ‘streaming’

Sunday’s game was the first ever Super Bowl webcast and the online turnout exceeded expectations. In the end, 2,105,441 users came out to watch the game, which NBC says was the most-watched, single game sports event of all time.

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In 2012 a new sport will be streaming live on YouTube—professional bull riding! YouTube reports that starting next month the over 100 million worldwide Professional Bull Riders (PBR) fans will be able to watch this classic sport live.

The big news of the hour for sports fans (and web video fans) is that on Super Bowl Sunday 2012 viewers will be able to watch the big game not only on TV, but from their computers and mobile devices as well. That’s right—Super Bowl XLVI will be the first Super Bowl to be streamed online!

Netflix is having some serious communication issues with its users and in every attempt to fix the problem, it seems like they only succeed in making things worse.

Latin Americans do want newer content, just like Americans. I am sure that the new customers are delighted to at last have access to Netflix and its existing content.

It looks like things are finally starting to look up for the international online video crowd—Hulu has announced that they are finally going abroad, starting with a launch in Japan later this year.

If you haven’t heard the news yet—yesterday, Netflix updated their pricing system, raising the price of a combined streaming and DVD-by-mail plan by a whopping 60 percent. Netflix users are none too pleased and are lashing out on Twitter via the trending topic ‘Dear Netflix’.

Those opposing S.978 suggest that supporters of the bill are not aware of the negative ramifications because of causes which state high monetary rewards as a key factor of the infringers. Another issue that has come up recently is that those who are opposing the bill on YouTube, which are plenty, are not getting their facts straight and are wrong.

Hulu is bringing in more business than ever with their Hulu Plus service, and are on the verge of reaching 1 million paid subscribers.

Furthermore, the survey proved out that if you pay to watch video, you are using Netflix more so than YouTube or Facebook. Unlike Netflix, both YouTube and Facebook are without premium subscriptions for videos primed for streaming or rental.