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Slowly, but steadily, BlackBerry’s building its BB10 app catalog with some major gets. Today, that burgeoning list grows by a very important one with the addition of Sony’s Crackle. The free, ad-based streaming video service, which culls together content from Sony’s various TV and film studios, is available to download now from BlackBerry World. It’s also compatible with the Q10’s teeny, 3.1-inch screen, so if you hate your good eyesight, you can devote an hour or two to reliving the opus that is Bad Boys II. Sure, popular apps like Instagram, Hulu Plus and Netflix have yet to make their way over to BB10, but you can’t fault the Waterloo-based outfit for getting users what it can. Even if that means bringing them Bad Boys II.

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Entertainment network Crackle has announced a significant expansion making the streaming video service available on millions more devices. Crackle is now available on LG, Samsung, and Vizio smart TVs for streaming all sorts of entertainment content. The streaming video network is also available on Samsung Blu-ray players.

These new brands of smart TVs and Blu-ray players that support Crackle are in addition to the availability on Sony smart TVs and Blu-ray players previously. Crackle reports that the addition of its network on the LG, Samsung, and Vizio products makes Crackle available on all leading smart TV manufacturer devices. Crackle offers Hollywood movies, television programs, and original series.

Content on Crackle focuses on specific genres such as action, comedy, crime, horror, and sci-fi. One of the most interesting things about Crackle is that the app is free to download and network is free to watch. The streaming video offering provides users with unlimited ad-supported viewing of any content available.

Crackle has hundreds of films and full-length television episodes that are uncut and unedited. The network refreshes content with new titles every month. The streaming video service also has a recently launched app for PlayStation and apps available for Android phones and the iPhone and iPad. Viewers can also watch Crackle via Roku media players, the Xbox Live service, on Windows Phones, Nook tablets, and the Kindle Fire.

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Crackle expands to major smart TVs and Blu-ray players is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Free video streaming service Crackle is already available on your smart phone, computer, and game console, but today the company announced its expansion to LG, Samsung, and Vizio Smart TVs. The expansion is twofold for Samsung, which is also adding the ad-supported streaming service to its line of Blu-ray players; Crackle characterizes today’s news as the conclusion of a strategy to bring the streaming service to, “all leading smart TV manufacturers.” Of course, that strategy is only complete in a handful of countries thus far — today’s additions apply to only the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia for LG and Samsung, while Vizio Smart TVs in the US and Canada are the only ones to get Crackle. All new iterations of the Crackle app are available via Samsung, LG, and Vizio’s respective app portals.

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If you happen to be in possession of a Windows Phone smartphone (being one of the minority at the moment), then you might be interested to hear in a new app that opens up a new channel of entertainment on your handset itself – Crackle for Windows Phone. In a nutshell, it will basically allow you to watch an entire selection of quality movies as well as TV shows right there and then on your Windows Phone-powered handset without requiring you to fork out a single cent. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?

First of all, here is a little primer. Crackle is a video streaming service, and it is also touted to be one of the fastest growing entertainment hubs in the world. It will carry the backing of Sony, allowing you to enjoy top notch films, TV series as well as original shows in their uncut glory right there and then on your handset. This free app can be downloaded from the Windows Phone Marketplace if you are interested. Good thing there are also parental controls which can be set so that your kids will not grow up faster than they should. Since the source is a Nokia-centric site, it makes perfect sense the the Nokia Lumia family has been “targeted” to carry this app.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Crackle arrives on Windows Phone, Windows Phone to soar past BlackBerry in US by November 2012 (Survey),

The Viewdini streaming metasearch service launched a few months ago for Verizon’s 4G LTE-laden Android hardware, and now it’s finally available on iDevices. While the droid app is exclusive to those with a 4G plan on Big Red’s network, anything running iOS 4.3 and up can now make use of Viewdini, independently of carrier ties. As the screenshots above show, you’re also good to go on 3G, although you better watch that data allowance to avoid any nasty surprises. Interestingly, the iOS version currently only digs through the catalogues of 11 content providers compared with 18 on the Android version, but you’re still getting access to various big names like ABC, Crackle, Hulu Plus, Netflix and Verizon’s own video service. More providers should be added to the list soon, and if you’d like to give Viewdini a try, it’s available at the App Store now.

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