For a while now we’ve been hearing about the wave of the future when it comes to mobile TV watching — TV Everywhere, the ability to watch whatever is being streamed at home to your TV through your cable or satellite box on mobile devices anywhere at any time. Still, this has remained elusive, as media conglomerates have sort of dragged their feet in developing it (shocking, right?). So now at least one outside company is hoping to finally make this a reality.
Its name is NimbleTV and what it claims it can do, starting today, is “move a whole subscription’s worth of TV onto the Web, with or without the subscription company’s permission.”
Reports the New York Times:
The service takes the package of television channels that a customer buys through a distributor like Dish Network, then streams the package onto the Web, allowing the customer more options for viewing than most distributors now allow. It also allows for thousands of hours of TV recording via a virtual digital video recorder.
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“We’ve all heard about TV Everywhere for a long time. One of the questions that’s bothered me is, why is it not here yet?” said Anand Subramanian, the chief executive of NimbleTV, during a preview of the service at Greycroft’s Midtown Manhattan office last week.
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NimbleTV says it has the same functionality as a Slingbox and DVR, but without the actual boxes. Mr. Subramanian, a Giants fan, recounted watching the Super Bowl through the service while on a work trip in India.
Godspeed, Nimbletv. This is beyond overdue. The fact that I’m traveling right now, pay $160 bucks a month for cable and can’t access the stuff on my cable box at home burns my ass to no end. THIS NEEDS TO END AND IT NEEDS TO END NOW!