New Orb Live Streams Web Video to iPhone & Android

Orb Networks has launched a new streaming app for the iPhone and Android devices designed to shift content from web TV sources like Hulu and ESPN3 to your smartphone. Sound familiar? Orb isn’t the only company running down this path. Fanhattan launched a TV content aggregation app last month, and TV Everywhere services, like the Xfinity app from Comcast, are also bringing TV from multiple sources to mobile phones and tablets. The difference with Orb is that it uses media server software on your PC to placeshift streams rather than beaming them directly from the Internet. The Orbcaster approach has its negatives, but on the positive side, Orb Live, like PlayOn, makes some content available that isn’t otherwise accessible on mobile devices – content like the free, ad-supported Hulu service, for one. Our friends at Mobiputing have gone hands on with the service (above).

The new Orb Live app is priced at $9.99, with the iPhone version available today and an Android app set to debut in August.

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