| MUMBAI:
A number of public interest groups in the US have called on the Federal Trade
Commission and the Justice Department to investigate the TV Everywhere initiative
that will allow online access to several channels for pay-TV subscribers.
Last
month, Comcast launched Fancast XFINITY TV, a new on-demand online service that
provides access to thousands of hours of cable shows, films and independently
produced content free of charge to its pay-TV customers.
Time Warner Cable
and other platforms are conducting their own trials to offer cable channels' programming
online to subscribers.
Several
other public advocacy groups feel that TV Everywhere will grant major platforms,
such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable and DirecTV unfair dominance over the online
video industry thus edging out Hulu and Vuze. | 
