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What’s up webfolk? Welcome to the TV blog today I wanted to post some commentary on all the recent activity that has been happening over the last month with all the companies jockeying for position to win the battle for king of the online entertainment streaming services. I am referring to the services that we are all using now a days things like Hulu, Amazon, Netflix, Vudu, Redbox, DirecTV and Google plus a couple of other smaller players that may or may not be able to hold onto a piece of the market.

First off I mentioned Redbox because they have been saying for quite a while that they are looking to open up a streaming services to compete with Netflix. Kind of a wait and see on that one but you never know and just a quick mention for Vudu for those of you that may not know that’s a movies on demand streaming service that is owened by Wal-mart so don’t be surprised if they manage to battle it out with the other big money players in this game.

Now Hulu has become an interesting piece of the streaming content puzzle because they happen to have the repurposed TV content market pretty much cornered at this point. So it will be very interesting to see how their impending sale to the highest bidder will go especially since the service is turning a profit now. I just wish that CBS would stop being so stubborn with their content and simply cut a deal to get their stuff on Hulu as well but that is just me wanting to have all the shows on one site

OK just a quick mention for the DirecTV thing because this is another case of wait and see because earlier this year they swooped in at the last second and purchased Blockbuster. This apparently was their first step into broadening their appeal and possibly to start offering yet another streaming movie service to their satellite customers. Which I would have to admit would have it’s advantages as well although I also did not really see a need for this from them since you can do the pay per view thing through them already.

Now we come to the two companies that I think will eventually end up at the top of this heap those being Amazon and Google since both of them are prime buyers for Hulu. I think Google in particular is in intersting possiblity to look at with so many options going on with them. The recent purchase of the Motorola company which most news sources were focused on all the patents that they will get with that merger. I thought the more interesting part of that deal is that Motorola manufactures about half of the TV set-top-boxes in the US. That gives them access to allot more TV sets in the future just to let you know. Then you have the recent announcement that their Android platform now has the ability to bring apps to their fledgling Google TV option. Which up until now has been given the cold shoulder by the consumer for the most part but things are starting to get very intesting with possiblities. Especially as more and more people turn of their TV’s and start watching on their Tablets which I predict will be a driving force in the adoption of online viewing of your television shows in the future.

So what do you think webfolk what will the landscape of watching all your entertainment land in the next five to ten years? Will broadcast TV be a thing of the past or will there always be a place for that fancy moving picture box in your home? If you want to read a bit more about the battle between Amazon and Google then check out this post over at the Home Media Magazine site. Otherwise leave your interesting thoughts in the comments section down below. Before I end this post though I just need to give a quick nod to the previous post here at the TV blog in case you wanted to read more of my compelling commentary. Just click on over to read about a better way to do TV ratings, seriously click the link and help us out.

Until next time peruser, kudos to you

Dave