Cablevision is set to trial a new concept service in New York, where it serves 3 million homes. A household with both Cablevision Internet access and cable television services will be able to take part. Basically, the service will use your Internet connection to stream pretty much anything from your computer screen to your television, delivered as your own personal TV channel through your cable.
Titled PC to TV Media Relay, Cablevision is offering the service to customers in an attempt to provide innovative and useful solutions for home media consumption as sites like Hulu become more popular. In order to use the service, a user only needs to install software on a Windows-based machines. Cablevision will market it as enabling online viewing on a television with the push of a button.
Pricing for the service has yet to be decided, and users of Macs will be included as soon as software for the platform is developed. The move follows a service from Comcast called On Demand Online, launched last year to offer cable programming to subscribers of both Comcast Internet and cable TV services.
“Linear video will, no doubt, continue to exist, and even to thrive, but broadband will by then almost inarguably be the core business for the cable companies,” Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett said, referring to how the cable sector will change over the next 10 years.
Result for: macs
In June we reported that small BitTorrent client uTorrent was far and away the most popular client and the numbers remain the same two months later, according to TorrentFreak.
BitComet continues to lose market share, which is easily eaten up by front runners uTorrent and Vuze.
The data comes from over 165,000 unique users and is collected by the Tribler team from Delft University of Technology.
The “other” category holds 20 different clients that failed to reach the 1 percent plateau. “Unknown” clients were unidentifiable by libTorrent and thus get their own category.
Transmission for Macs and Linux saw the biggest share gains, moving up 44 percent to almost 3 percent of total market share. Vuze saw strong gains as well.
The full chart from TF:
Result for: macs
The much hyped Nokia Ovi Store is now live everywhere, and is available from your mobile phone as well as from desktop PCs and Macs.
So far there are only about 700 apps, games, and audio/video pieces of content, but Nokia promises 20,000 at least.
Check it here: Nokia Ovi Store
Be warned however, the site is running extremely slow as of publishing, from the PC and from the mobile browser.
