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 […]
If you weren’t at the Ploughing Championships, you might have caught the live stream, running on AerTV, on the Irish Independent website and on Agriland.ie. Naturally, technology.ie was more interested the the technicalities of the operation than in the content itself! Content Director for The MediaPool, Kevin MacDermott, was only too happy to give us […]
“Let’s do the podcast live this week”, I said to Michele. “OK”, he said, without batting an eyelid. So we did! Of course, he wanted to know about the technical side – so we started the show with that. We had previously experimented with Google Hangouts for the show, with mixed results. This time we kept […]
Michele and I don’t see eye to eye on this week’s podcast. Facebook introduce real-money gambling: Michele says it’s just business. I think it’s the end of civilisation as we know it. Well, not exactly – but you get the picture! 🙂 We do agree that Katie Taylor is magnificent! In London, her supporters broke […]
