This was the year in which television dramas escaped from the box, with House of Cards being screened on-demand only for subscribers to Netflix.
Despite the shift to streaming services like Netflix and Amazon, McCollum believes cable programming has a future in the multi-screen, on-demand era.
While many gyms and fitness equipment include screens to watch TV nowadays, Netpulse's technology gives users access to live HD television, a touch screen, on-demand videos and music, and provides iPod/ iPhone connectivity, and personalized workout data.
If this sounds somewhat familiar it might be because Simple Machine bares some similarities to Tugg, the screening-on-demand service that uses the framework of crowdfunding to stage showings of films at movie houses.
Vimeo will also screen it on demand and it will be part of curated content, which will help audiences find films such as Damnation, which have environmental themes.
The BBC's News application for connected TV brings the latest news reports to your TV screen, on demand.
Some parts of the health-care establishment see this change in consumer expectations and behavior as a burden -- better screening and on-demand access require more clinicians and can increase health-care costs.
In some cases, if you get SMS notifications on your lock-screen, the on-demand password will show up even if your phone is locked.
Together, the two say they will be able to provide data in over75 countries, with 260 million desktop screens, 160 million mobile phone screens, 95 million tablet screens, 40 million television screens, 120 million video-on-demand screens, and 40,000 movie theater screens representing well over a hundred million movie-goers in the U.S. specifically.
Malone is now at the centre of a spider's web of investments, subsidiaries, partnerships and corporate "alliances" giving him a stake or say in every booming facet of electronic media, from computer hardware to sports and movie screening rights, video-on-demand, online shopping and internet search engines.
