{"id":73252,"date":"2014-11-13T08:30:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T06:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=73252"},"modified":"2014-11-13T08:30:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T06:30:43","slug":"sony-unveils-vue-streaming-tv-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/73252\/sony-unveils-vue-streaming-tv-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony unveils Vue streaming TV service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Network Entertainment International LLC, a unit of Sony Corp of America, unveiled a new cloud-based TV service, PlayStation Vue, expected to be commercially launched during the first quarter of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The web-based television service allows users to access live TV and on-demand content without a cable or satellite service, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The service offers catch-up and on-demand TV. It makes the past three days of popular programming available without the need to schedule recordings, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>During the invite-only beta, PlayStation Vue will initially offer around 75 channels per market from major programmers, such as CBS, Discovery Communications, Fox, NBCUniversal, Scripps Networks Interactive and Viacom.<\/p>\n<p>PlayStation Vue will begin an invite-only beta preview during November for select PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 owners, with a phased rollout starting in New York followed by Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The service will also be available on iPad shortly thereafter, and later on to more Sony and non-Sony devices.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Sony<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Sony pins profit hopes on PlayStation\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/68822\/sony-pins-profit-hopes-on-playstation\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sony pins profit hopes on PlayStation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sony expects $2 billion loss\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/68714\/sony-expects-2-billion-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sony expects $2 billion loss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Network Entertainment International LLC, a unit of Sony Corp of America, unveiled a new cloud-based TV service, PlayStation Vue, expected to be commercially launched during the first quarter of 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25,385,9142],"class_list":["post-73252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active","tag-sony","tag-vue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73252","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=73252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73266,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73252\/revisions\/73266"}],"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=73252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}