A periodic roundup of relevant news…
- After being featured in Comcast press release, Roku lobbies against unlocking the box
- Comcast press release announcing Roku app with X1 interface and cloud DVR acess
- Comedy Central, BET, MTV, more Viacom networks will hit Sling TV
- Amazon launches website with interactive guide for streaming video apps
Come on, Dave! Posting a link to the WSJ pay wall hurts.
“Come on, Dave! Posting a link to the WSJ pay wall hurts.”
There’s this brand new site called “Google News”. If you search a WSJ headline in this brand new site, you’ll get a link that takes you beyond the paywall.
The More You Know™.
I honestly didn’t know that Google News would publish entire paid articles. Honestly, I never really cared enough before to even check, but this article had me interested with the mention of the detriment of unlocking the box on OTT services.
Thanks for the tip, Chucky!
Sorry! When I’d clicked the link from Twitter, it gave me the full article. Guess it depends where the incoming traffic originates from. Praising X1 is an interesting position from the guy/company that declared the DVR dead in 2011.
https://zatznotfunny.com/2011-02/roku-dvr-is-dead/
Funny how they’ve reversed course. Gotta make money somehow and they missed their exit when they didn’t sell to Amazon. The status quo is pretty good for them… why support a new environment where they’d have more competitors?
Put simply, this “hands-off” FCC is coming to this issue so LATE that the free market has begun to fix this issue. It is becoming less and less about the cable or sat box and more and more about the Roku’s and FireTV’s and AndroidTV and Chromecasts and . . .
Also the FCC’s attempt won’t ever become reality for reasons far too long to go into, but to oversimplify: none of the parties involved have agreed on anything nor plan on cooperating nor do they want their software exposed to threats that can ruin their brand, a really big concern. There was a deadline for the report, and that had to be met, but that’s it. If the parties don’t want this to happen, then it will be foot dragged and end up in court with lawyers for a really LONG time. Let’s quit wasting time and money on this silly. too late, FCC attempt that is a win for the affluent and rich who can afford the higher cost of 3rd party STBs, and let the world change to our own affordable truly all in one streamers that can even stream cable and sat TV and TiVo and SlingTV and all those services will be improved much sooner than a legacy solution legacy products. In this one case, Milton Friedman is correct.
You don’t even need to go to Google News — just go to Google and search for the headline and the first link is just about always the WSJ link that gives the whole article
“You don’t even need to go to Google News — just go to Google and search for the headline”
This is true. But, FWIW, Google Normcore is pulling that link from Google News.
(I’ve long had an AppleScript that pulls the browser title of the article in question, and opens a new tab with that text searched in Google News. Works like a charm.)