LocateTV Blog

Heroes: it’s epic. People are talking about it everywhere. US, UK, water cooler or online forum, everyone wants a piece of the cheerleader. Which means that there are a lot of Heroes blogs out there on the net, and it can be difficult to sort the well-written, interesting and informative sites from the oh-look-Hayden-Panettiere-is-really-cute-in-this-episode variety.
This [...]

Back in the early days of online content distribution and peer-to-peer file sharing, it seemed that most films and TV programmes would soon be freely available to web users with less-than-scrupulous consciences. Defenders of illegal P2P activity such as CNET reader Bretbb0 claim that the money internet piracy costs the industry is insignificant compared to [...]

One of the ways in which we’re delighted to see web users embracing LocateTV in public beta is the uptake of embeds by fan sites based around specific shows and actors. We’ve always seen the embeds as a great strength of LocateTV, allowing bloggers and site owners to share content with their readers, be it [...]

Specialised TV and film search is certainly a growth market. With so much TV and film content out there and so many ways of watching it, it’s no wonder that companies are spotting an opportunity to help people navigate all the offerings to easily and quickly find what they want to watch.
But amongst all the [...]

The increase in people watching TV and film online is old and hackneyed news by now, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Jeffro 2pt0 has been blogging about whether the LocateTV team would team up with Joost, the upshot of which is: it’s not a priority with all the larger providers we have [...]

Our developer Pete has obviously had a busy and stressful day, because he just sent me a calculation about how much Star Trek is on TV within the current broadcast window. Watching for 12 hours every day, it would take 12 days, 1 hour and 28 minutes to watch, a pretty daunting - or exciting [...]

Happy Public Beta Day, TV and film fans everywhere. As promised, everyone can now find out when and where a programme, film or actor is next showing on TV, online and DVD, specific to their region. LocateTV’s search is smart, the speed is much improved and the redesigned embeds are up and running so users [...]

filmforay is much more than a blog, it’s a revolution. Although creator Linden Tibbets does indeed blog on the site, giving development updates as well as media news and music video picks, filmforay is really all about the community.
In this case, that community is a group of film makers and enthusiasts ‘laying siege to Hollywood’ [...]

Are you using LocateTV to find back-to-back episodes of Little House On The Prairie, making a bad week at work seem that bit more bearable? Searching for old Tom Cruise movies so you can remember how innocently iconic he was all his pre-Scientology, pre-patriarch 80s splendour?
If the feedback from our private beta testers is anything [...]

So, the long days of summer sun and socialising are over and if you’re in the USA it’s time to grab a blanket, hit the couch, and dig in to the feast of pilots and new seasons on offer from the networks this fall.
The choice can be overwhelming. How do you make sure you get [...]