PC World’s KnowHow Movie streaming services goes live with limited content selection

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This week we talked about Currys/PC World launching a movie streaming service and today the site was officially launched. Looking around at the site there is a fairly basic selection with only content from Warner Bro and Disney and the prices seem pretty high. For example Dolphin Tale can be bought for in HD for [...]

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Currys and PC World to launch movie streaming service

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  Currys/PC Word are launching a movie streaming service in the UK. The service called KNOWHOW Movies will offer movie rentals at £3.99 and movie purchases at £12.99, they say the service will offer full HD playback and Dolby Digital Plus 5.1. The press release says that the service will be initially available for PCs [...]

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A Look at the BBC iplayer addon for XBMC

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I’m a big fan of XBMC. Its a powerful multi platform media centre system that is capable of playing back pretty much any media format. Another great benefit to using XBMC is that it has a multitude of talented and dedicated devolpers who provide literally hundreds of addons  that enhance its basic features by adding [...]

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Sky to Launch New Internet TV Service

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Sky have announced they are launching a new Internet TV Service which is going to be an additional service to the Sky Go service it currently offers. It looks like this is going to be aimed at non-Sky paying customers and will include films from Sky Movies and other content with pay per view and [...]

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Lovefilm add ABC content to it’s streaming service

The war between Lovefilm and Netflix continues to heat up, today Lovefilm announced a deal with Disney UK to bring ABC shows to the streaming service. Initally it will be shows like Lost and Castle with other shows like Grey’s Anatomy coming later in the year. Press Release: Branded Service Will Bring Top US TV Series From [...]

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Netflix officially launches in the UK

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Today Netflix officially launched in the UK after setting up a number of content deals over the last few months. Priced at £5.99 per month with a month free trial (Credit Card needed to setup) there is access to what looks like a ton of content and you can watch the services on a PS3, [...]

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Roku announces MHL compatible Streaming Stick

Roku have announced their latest device the Roku Streaming Stick. The little device is the size of a USB stick that will plug in to a TV and “transform it into a Smart TV”. The Streaming Stick will have a WiFi, processor, memory and have have access to Roku’s selection of content. The device plugs [...]

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Lovefilm sign up streaming rights for Sony Pictures in the UK

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Netflix hasn’t launched in the UK yet but the battle of the streaming services has certainly has. Yesterday Netflix signed a deal with BBC Worldwide to stream BBC content and today Lovefilm signed a deal with Sony Pictures to have exclusive rights to stream movie content. The deal starts June 2012 and gives Lovefilm access [...]

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Lovefilm switching from Flash to Silverlight for movie streaming from their Web Site

I’m a bit late posting this as the news came out Wednesday but it is pretty significant news from the UK’s leading purveyor of streamed films. http://blog.lovefilm.com/uncategorized/why-were-switching-from-flash-to-silverlight.html Lovefilm have announced that they are switching streaming from Flash to Silverlight. This only applies to their website streaming and not their apps for  iPad and iPhones. Whilst [...]

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Tesco adds Blinkbox video streaming to its DVD purchases

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While video streaming services get more and more popular there is still a big market for physical disks so Tesco’s new service is interesting. They have partnered with blinkbox to offer digital copies of purchased DVDs. When you buy a DVD from Tesco.com you get a digital copy at blinkbox which you can watch ay [...]

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