The most popular video services are totally on-demand. Their low cost and ease of use makes them ideal for the active watcher. Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 93 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series,…
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Duo, a new, simple video calling app
Duo is a video chat mobile app developed by Google, available on both Android and iOS. Google Duo will replace Hangouts for video calling within the suite of Googles apps. Features: HD 720p video Optimized for low bandwidth mobile networks. The app optimizes WebRTC and uses QUIC over UDP. Optimisation is further achieved through the degradation…
Google Allo, A Smart Messaging App
Allo is an instant messaging mobile app developed by Google that includes a virtual assistant and provides a “smart reply” function that allows users to reply without typing. Allo’s “Smart reply” function uses Google’s machine learning technology to suggest a reply to the last message, which can be selected from a few options. The feature…
More Hardware Announced At I/O
Announced at Google I/O last week were several hardware products including: Google Home – a Wi-Fi speaker that also works as a smarthome control center and an assistant for the whole family. Daydream view – a high-quality VR headeset. Our goal for Daydream is to simplify the complexity behind virtual reality. Google Wifi – a mesh wifi system…
Appear.In
Appear.in is a FREE video chat with no login or registration required. Simply share the weblink for your “room” and speak with up to eight people simultaneously using your 3G, 4G, or wifi. Anyone can participate, using this app or any WebRTC-compliant browser on a computer or mobile device.
Handbtake, Video Transcoding Made Easy
HandBrake is a free and open-source video transcoder, originally developed by Eric “titer” Petit in 2003 to make ripping a film from a DVD to a data storage device easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions. HandBrake is available for Windows, OS X and Ubuntu from its official website, although it is…
Chromecast Streaming Player
Chromecast is a media streaming device that plugs into the HDMI port on your TV. Simply use an Android phone, tablet, iPhone®, iPad®, Mac® or Windows® laptop, or Chromebook to cast your favorite entertainment and apps right to the big screen.
Roku Streaming Video Player
The Roku Streaming Player (or simply Roku) is a series of digital media player set-top boxes manufactured by Roku, Inc. Roku partners provide over-the-top content in the form of channels. A Roku streaming device gets data (the video stream) via a wired or Wi-Fi connection to an Internet router. The data is output via an…
Other Streaming Players
Amazon Fire TV is a digital media player and microconsole developed by Amazon.com. It is a small network appliance and entertainment device designed to stream digital audio/video content to a high-definition television. The device also allows users to play video games with the included remote, via a mobile app, or with an optional game controller….
Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Instant Video is the streaming-video component of Amazon Prime. Like Netflix and Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime offers unlimited streaming of tens of thousands of movies and TV shows. The user interface on the web and on the apps are quite horrible! Something else that is horrible is the amount of buffering on the apps. On…
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