{"id":44272,"date":"2013-08-16T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T07:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=44272"},"modified":"2013-08-16T09:10:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T07:10:38","slug":"sony-steps-closer-to-internet-tv-service-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/44272\/sony-steps-closer-to-internet-tv-service-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony steps closer to Internet TV service: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp is close to striking a deal to secure content from media company Viacom for a new Internet-based TV service, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sony is working on a service that can stream live television over the Internet and it aims to roll it out by the end of the year, the newspaper reported, citing an anonymous source.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese company is also speaking to Time Warner, CBS and Disney about potential programming deals, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. spokesman for Sony declined to comment as did representatives from Time Warner, CBS, Disney and Viacom.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the Web-based service would be available on Sony&#8217;s new PlayStation&#8217;s console, Bravia high-definition TVs and could later expand to other Sony products such as tablets and phones.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Sony<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony to evaluate Entertainment spinoff\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/38334\/sony-to-evaluate-entertainment-spinoff\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony to evaluate Entertainment spinoff<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony hacker sentenced\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/36127\/sony-hacker-sentenced\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony hacker sentenced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony chairman Howard Stringer to retire\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/33263\/sony-chairman-howard-stringer-to-retire\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony chairman Howard Stringer to retire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony aims to be a mega mobile player\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/32704\/sony-aims-to-be-a-mega-mobile-player\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony aims to be a mega mobile player<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp is close to striking a deal to secure content from media company Viacom for a new Internet-based TV service, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,385,1385],"class_list":["post-44272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-sony","tag-viacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44278,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44272\/revisions\/44278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}