Yesterday, Comcast and Time Warner announced that they are in the process of building their own answer to Hulu, called TV Everywhere. The fundamental difference? It only works if you’re already paying for it. The two companies just signed on with Turner Broadcasting System Inc.’s various television stations to feature what, to us, sounds like an online TV vehicle that could really go either way: As in, they would seem to be building Cable TV To Go. Let’s say you’re a Comcast subscriber, and you’re on the road: TV Everywhere would allow you to log in with your Comcast account info and watch any number of programs, which maybe, sorta, might be kind of useful or fun for someone somewhere. (It might also, speculators say, allow cable networks currently not represented on Hulu to push/preview new original content the way some networks do on Hulu.) The whole thing is explained more in-depth here at NewTeeVee, but one thing isn’t explained: Why?

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 2:14 pm.