Time Warner Cable has expanded its TWC TV IP streaming of broadcast television to several different platforms since its, but so far it's been limited to use inside subscriber's homes. That will change tomorrow, according to a tipster who informed us a new version of the iOS app is coming that allows out of home streaming.
This source previously gave us an early heads up on TWC TV for Roku, which. The video doesn't include all of the channels that are a part of TWC TV, but will feature video on-demand from channels like BBC America, BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nick, and Univision, among others. There will be ten live TV channels as well: Aspire, BBC America, beIn, Big Ten Network, FearNet, Fox News Channel, Fox business, GMC, Pac-12 Network and TV Guide Network The web portal will also be revamped in May, and Android users should expect an update in Q2 with access to streaming away from home. However, there are still a few strings. From what we've heard, streaming over 3G / 4G will be limited to Verizon Wireless until Q4, but all users will be able to access the video streams over WiFi.
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Time Warner already faced several legal challenges to the initial app, if the new features arrive tomorrow we'll see whether and other content providers head back to the courts for round two, or if any complaints have been negotiated away already. Update: Time Warner has confirmed the feature in a post on its blog, although there's no mention of any restrictions for streaming over cellular connections. The update is not live in the app store yet but it's scheduled to arrive by tomorrow morning, hit the source link to check out the official list of content.
Thanks, Anonymous. New TWC TV™ App Release for Apple iOS Enhances Customer Viewing Experience with Access to Programming out of Home Customers Can Watch Over 1,100 Hours Of On Demand Programming and Live TV On The Go NEW YORK-(BUSINESS WIRE)-In its ongoing commitment to deliver content that customers can enjoy anytime, anywhere, Time Warner Cable will launch select Video On Demand and live programming outside the home on the new update to the popular TWC TV app for iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone and iPod iTouch tomorrow at 10 AM EST. The programming is accessible over any WiFi connection.
'We were the first provider to bring live television to the iPad in the home' TWC TV content is now available while away from their home and features over 1,100 hours of On Demand TV shows and movies from 26 top-rated networks and up to 11 live TV news, sports and entertainment channels. The offering includes Time Warner Cable local news, traffic and weather channels NY1, NY1 Noticias, YNN and News 14. Customers can now watch a selection of their favorite shows on the go. This update to TWC TV also improves the user experience of the live TV mini-guide with the introduction of new filtering and sorting features for the 200-plus live channels available to watch in the home. 'We were the first provider to bring live television to the iPad in the home,' said Mike Angus, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Video for Time Warner Cable.
'Since then, we've increased the number of platforms and devices on which our customers can watch live television, and added thousands of hours of Video On Demand programming at no additional cost. The release of this TWC TV update is the next natural step towards our goal of giving customers even more of the content they love on every screen.' TWC TV is available at no additional cost to Time Warner Cable Video subscribers. Channel line-ups vary by market and depend on the video subscription package to which a customer subscribes. A Time Warner Cable authorized modem is still required for in-home access to the complete TWC TV line-up. In home viewing of the app is available on Apple iOS, Android devices running release 4.0 or higher, PCs and Macs via www.TWCTV.com, and Roku Streaming Players via the TWC TV channel.
A full list of available channels can be found on the TWC TV about page. More information is available on the Time Warner Cable Untangled blog at www.twcableuntangled.com. About Time Warner Cable Time Warner Cable Inc.
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Companies like and buy the rights to beam channels to customers’ television sets. But do those rights extend to iPads?
That question has divided the television industry in recent weeks, ever since Time Warner Cable started streaming several dozen TV channels to customers’ iPads. Immediately, channel owners like and Scripps Networks seized on the streaming capability as a contract violation — in part because they want cable companies to pay them more for the privilege to stream.
Legal threats were made last week, and the dispute was brought into public view on Monday when Time Warner Cable introduced that promoted “more freedom to watch on more screens” and asked, “Why do some TV networks want to take it away?” The television industry is, in effect, joining book publishers in being unsettled by the and the new era of tablets. There is little doubt that people will be watching more TV on tablets in the future. (Imagine a son watching “SpongeBob SquarePants” on an iPad while his father watches basketball on the big-screen TV.) What is undetermined is whether people will be watching through an application provided by their cable company, an individual channel’s app, or through a paid service like Netflix.
Other cable television operators say they are coming out with their own streaming apps soon. Cablevision’s app could come out this week. But some channel owners say that companies like Time Warner Cable should be consulting with them more closely before introducing new products. “Portability is a different business proposition,” said an executive at one of the major channel owners, suggesting that there should be a premium paid for the ability to take a TV show into bed or into the bathtub. One commercial for Time Warner Cable’s app actually shows a person watching TV on a tablet while taking a bath. The executive said Time Warner Cable should have “worked out the business issues” with channel owners before coming out with the app.
The chief issue is counting the audience: another executive said there had been a “stampede” of channel owners asking the Nielsen Company to include iPad streaming in its ratings of programs. Time Warner Cable started a Web campaign to defend its application that streams 32 of its TV channels to an iPad. Some providers of programming, like Viacom, oppose streaming in part because they want to be able to charge cable companies for the right.
Credit Time Warner Cable The channel executives spoke only on condition of anonymity because their parent companies had refused to comment on the dispute. But Scripps, the owner of HGTV and the Food Network, said earlier this month that it “has not granted iPad video streaming rights to any distributor and is actively addressing any misunderstandings on this issue.” Melinda Witmer, an executive vice president at Time Warner Cable, said in an interview last week that she thought the current dispute was “fundamentally about money and leverage,” not about the language of contracts. “I already bought these rights,” she said.
Witmer compared the complaints of channel owners to a person who waves a gun around and winds up shooting themselves in the foot. For distributors that depend on monthly subscription checks from customers, new products like iPad apps are ways to keep the payments coming — and that revenue, of course, is ultimately shared with the channel owners. Some channel executives said Viacom, the owner of MTV, VH1 and other channels, is taking the most aggressive stance against the streaming app. One of the complaints is that the app now includes only a portion of all the channels that are available through the traditional set-top box. Time Warner Cable is offering 32 channels for the iPad. Advertisement Cablevision is expected to change that. Its app will transplant every existing channel and video-on-demand option to the iPad, literally making it into a TV set.
The company declined to comment Monday. Verizon and have said that they were also working on streaming apps for iPads.
But for now, the Time Warner Cable skirmish may make other cable companies or distributors think twice about replicating TV on tablets. Comcast, for instance, has not added live streaming to its iPad app yet; instead, it has focused on adding on-demand programming. Comcast is the nation’s largest cable company; Time Warner Cable is No. The cable distributors have trod lightly into an area that will most likely prompt more fighting with channel owners: out-of-home viewing by customers.
Not every channel owner is arguing against the streaming notion, however. Time Warner, which was separated from Time Warner Cable two years ago, is comfortable with the current app, and its recent contract renegotiation with Comcast specifically included tablet streaming rights. Witmer of Time Warner Cable said she thought some of the resistance by channel owners stemmed from a lack of understanding of the technology. “In fairness, truthfully, to all the executives in this industry that are trying to run businesses that are part of this ecosystem, it is exhausting — exhausting — keeping up with everything that is changing rapidly,” she said.