Streaming

Is 2010 the year of the media streamer? Certainly the category has had more than its fair share of headlines this year, with the likes of the Boxee Box and others thrilling the tech community. One of the products that gets a lot of buzz amongst digital media enthusiasts is Popcorn Hour. Their…

Sitting here in my living room in the UK, I’m continually frustrated by the fact that there is so much great US TV available at this time of year, and we get to see precisely none of it until the Spring. New season of Chuck? Steve Buscemi in Boardwalk Empire? Yep, I’ll take a ticket and join the…

If you’ve already cut the cord with your cable company, or are thinking of doing so, then you may have rationalised the decision based on the growing availability of TV programmes streamed online by content providers. There’s a mass of programming available from the major networks, as well as…

Nice! Steve Clayton recently pointed us to a new desktop radio player application called Echo from Thirteen23. The company, known for their beautifully-designed interfaces that make heavy use of WPF technology, is also the maker of the Netflix desktop client called Drama which we previously…

The newest in my "Silverlight Guru" interviews with Troy Dreier is up now. It offers a concise overview of some of the big features we have coming for Silverlight 3 and with our encoding infrastructure.http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11268And the previous installments are…

Qik just announced a new version of their live video recording software for Windows Mobile phones, Qik 0.2.44, which adds a lot of new features. Top on the list is the addition of a feature that lets you send and receive video messages using the Contacts application on your phone. All you have to…

There are many legitimate and legal reasons to use BitTorrent technology. No really, I assure you there are! For example, did you know that the Revision3 Internet Television Network, makers of a number of hot web shows including Diggnation, Tekzilla, Hak5, Systm, and more actually make their shows…

Beullpilot on The Green Button forums has offered a tip on getting NASA’s streaming TV feeds into your Windows Media Center. He directs us to the website http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ where you can access the Windows Media download by right-clicking where it says “Windows Media” and…

Drama is a Netflix desktop client designed just for Windows Vista (and presumably now Windows 7) users. The app, an upgrade from thirteen23’s previous Netflix application cine.view, is an attractive WPF client that lets you browse trailers, view new releases, search Netflix’s library and manage…

A Windows utility called PlayOn has just left its beta phase and is now available for everyone to try. With this installed, you can stream video from Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, as well as video from TV networks like CBS, CNN, and ESPN right to your Xbox 360. Of course, if you’re primarily interested…