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The article focuses on efforts by pay-television providers to allow subscribers to watch their shows using their portable devices (TV everywhere). It states the rollout of TV everywhere has been slow due to difficult authentication processes and limited advertising of the service. It mentions compet...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 408; no. 8845; p. 55
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 7/20/2013
Subjects:
Netflix Inc.
Hulu (Web resource)
Google Inc.
Subscription television
Television viewing
Computer access control
Streaming video & television
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article focuses on efforts by pay-television providers to allow subscribers to watch their shows using their portable devices (TV everywhere). It states the rollout of TV everywhere has been slow due to difficult authentication processes and limited advertising of the service. It mentions competition from video streaming service Netflix and search company Google's attempt to set up its own internet-streaming service. It reports a planned sale of video streaming service Hulu was cancelled.