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Netflix and Roku hope to avoid the curse of the set-top box

What makes Netflix's new living-room box for Internet video downloads different from all the other set-top flops? Everything. The price is low: At $99, it's much cheaper than the $229 Apple TV. It connects to regular TVs as well as HDTVs, and can stream video in variable quality depending on your Internet connection speed. And you can eat all you want from the buffet of available titles on Netflix, with movies available online that happen to be in your Netflix queue already lined up and ready to go. Hardware partner Roku has introduced it with a chipset that other manufacturers can license, and Netflix has a huge domestic subscriber base as potential customers. So what three things could doom this product to the same fate as every other Internet-video set-top? More »

12:40 PM on Tue May 20 2008
By Jackson West
1,201 views, 5 comments

Latest by Darascon: @sample032: Riiight, a "good" set top box. But adding all the stuffs to it essentially makes it a dedicated HTPC. So where's the difference? more »

deathwatch

Internet-TV startup Akimbo meets its iceberg

One anonymous source has now become three, so we're calling it over for Akimbo, the TV-over-the-Intenet startup which no amount of new CEO Thomas Frank's winning smiles could save. Writes an ex-employee:
It's true. I used to work for them over 2 years ago and all of my friends that were there are now gone. They laid off the last of them today. It's sad but LONG OVERDUE. Akimbo is now officially dead although the heartbeat died over a year ago.
So who's left to move the deck chairs? More details on the sinking of the startup, which had raised $47 million in venture capital, after the jump. More »

1:20 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Jackson West
1,134 views, 7 comments

Latest by ryaninmtv: I had the original Akimbo box a couple years ago. There was some niche programming from the UK and Chinese stuff you couldn't get here as well as some American programs (HGTV, Food Network, etc). When that crashed, more »

dvr

TiVo's turf becomes the latest Sony-Microsoft battleground

Sony's recent announcement that its PlayStation 3 console will soon act as a digital video recorder in Europe is little surprise to anyone following the industry. It's long been believed that the PS3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 could act as DVRs. The real question is how this move will affect a soon-to-be crowded DVR marketplace. TiVo, the best-known DVR brand, has struggled financially as cable and satellite distributors released their own recorders. Although its future may be a bit brighter thanks to a recent licensing deal with Comcast and the potential of a renewed DirecTV contract, there's more competition for TiVo than ever — and from the unlikeliest of places. More »

1:40 PM on Thu Aug 23 2007
By Mary Jane Irwin
2,494 views, 7 comments

Latest by lordargent: So now, if I want to take my console over to a friends house to play it. I have to make sure nothing is scheduled to be recorded :P Convergence is nice and all, but IMO, there are some things that more »