Friday 4 September 2009

Another Video Site We Don’t Need: AT&T Entertainment

"There is no shortage of places to watch TV shows free on the Web. There’s a glut of them, really. But here comes another: AT&T Entertainment.

What is it? A TV (and movie) portal that looks more or less like every other TV (and movie) portal on the Web: Hulu, TV.com, Sling.com, Fancast, etc.

The only reason for AT&T (T) to launch its own portal now would be as a placeholder until it launches its own “TV Everywhere” play, where subscribers to its “U-Verse” TV service would get Web access to cable shows. That’s the same strategy that Comcast (CMCSA), Time Warner Cable (TWC), Verizon (VZ) and everyone else in the pay TV business is trying..."


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Comment: "Hulu, TV.com, Sling.com, Fancast" - no mention of Blinkx, you'll notice. But thren again, there never is. I have never known a company more incompetent and negligent of its PR effort, of being known...

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