Amazon’s Prime Video service launched in Ireland back in December of last year. With the introductory pricing of €2.99 / month for the first six months it’s hard to knock the service’s value, though, like NetFlix when it launched the range of TV shows and movies is a little lacking. Amazon, however, have announced that […]
Amazon announced this morning that Amazon Prime Video is now available in Ireland. The tech giant has also extended the service’s availability to over 200 countries. The service will cost €2.99 / month in Ireland for the first 6 months, but will rise to €5.99 / month after. For now the service will only offer […]
Now you can turn off English subtitles (or choose Irish ones) on TG4’s app, and they’ve added support for Chromecast. Curtha soir ag fotheidil Bhéarla agus tú ag iarraidh an Ghaeilge a chlos ar Ros na Rún? Tá leagan nua de Aip iOS TG4 anois a thugann an rogha do dhaoine na fotheidil a roghnú nó a mhúchadh […]
If you signed up for Apple Music when it launched on July 1st, you got a three-month free trial, which was set to auto-renew on October 1st: that’s the day after tomorrow! Some people probably went straight in to their Apple Music settings and disabled the auto-renew, allowing the trial to expire when it’s done. Others will have […]
View image | gettyimages.com Apple has backed down on their plans to not pay artist royalties during the three month trial period of the new Apple Music streaming service. It follows criticism by Taylor Swift, and others, who had complained about the proposal in the wake of Apple’s announcement at WWDC. In a post on Tumblr, Swift […]
TIDAL, the first High Fidelity lossless music streaming service with HD music videos and Curated Editorial, has just announced the availability of its service in Ireland. Billed as “the ideal music service for those who care about quality”, TIDAL boasts an extensive library of 25 million-plus tracks, 75,000 music videos, and curated editorial articles, features and interviews […]
Dana Brunetti, the producer of House of Cards and The Social Network, spoke on Day 2 of Web Summit, in an interview with Matt Garahan of the Financial Times. The Netflix-produced House of Cards, he said, truly disrupted the traditional television space. “Conventional companies only wanted to commit to a pilot for House of Cards,” said […]
Netflix adds and removes content from their catalogue all the time. This month they’re adding several titles that should prove popular: House, starring Hugh Laurie. One of my favourite TV shows of all time. Laurie, who a lot of people remember for his comedy roles with Stephen Fry, plays an antisocial maverick doctor who specialises […]
Netflix shares fell 26% percent yesterday as subscriptions faltered. The company said that their forecasts had not taken into account the full impact of the subscription price increase introduced by the company earlier in the year. That impact was not felt until Q3, they claimed because of “the large positive reception to Season Two of Orange is the […]
Sky Television has invested $500,000 into LA-based startup Pluto.TV. Pluto.TV aggregates online video content from the web and programmes it into themed video channels, i.e. it takes on demand video and turns it into video channels grouped by theme. It sounds like a backwards step in some respects. Podcasting, streaming and media on demand has freed […]
