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The hyper-connected smart home of the future promises to change the way we live. More efficient energy usage, Internet-connected appliances that communicate with one another and cl... More

Many Wall Street analysts, as well as savvy investors, seem to believe that a merger between DirecTV and arch-rival Dish Network is very much back on the cards. Last week saw Direc... More

If there’s one thing the journalism establishment does well, it’s hand-wringing. This is a profession that depends, in large part, on advertising to sustain itself, yet is clea... More

Despite numerous false dawns, home control systems may finally be on the brink of mass market take-up, thanks to the emergence of low power wireless technologies and the increasing... More

Besides its ads, Apple says very little, confident numbers will do the talking. This no longer works as others have seized the opportunity to drive the narrative. Once a challenger... More

British operator Virgin Media has decided to build its own content delivery network for TV Everywhere, a move that exemplifies how MSOs worldwide are wrestling with the costs of de... More

Aereo is what has been called a loophole start-up because it is structured to comply with regulations even as it disrupts the current model. The company was started by Chet Kanojia... More

This year’s March Madness will have a lot more eyeballs in play. Millions more, according to CBS Sports and Turner Sports execs who boast that the NCAA College Basketball Champio... More

Though gaming remains the most dominant activity on gaming consoles, the share of watching digital video usage is climbing, online and in listening to music. Nielsen says consumers... More

Netflix reportedly is gearing up to stream movies and TV shows in 4K resolution within the next year or two, according to chief product officer Neil Hunt. 4K resolution, which deli... More

Redbox Instant, the movie-streaming venture by Bellevue-based Coinstar and Verizon Communications, began commercial service Thursday, vying with Netflix and Amazon.com for online v... More

ast night, I went to meet a group of friends for dinner in San Francisco after work. As I sat down at the table, two of my dining companions asked in unison, with eye-opening looks... More

U.S. media companies have found a new wonder drug. Its name: subscription video on demand. Licensing film and television content to sites like Netflix and Amazon.com has become a n... More

Nintendo’s Wii U isn’t proving to be much of a successor to the 100-million-selling Wii. New metrics from NPD suggest that sales of the console continue to disappoint. The mark... More

The moment Pay TV operators deliver a service, subscribers expect a high Quality of Service from them and that has proved the case with multi-screen/OTT delivery, even when the ser... More

It wasn't that long ago when the back-end delivery systems for traditional pay-TV services and those for over-the-top video services were quite distinct. Ditto for the in-home set-... More

The music industry has lost billions of dollars in revenue over the last decade. Nielsen says the industry can use generated at least a half billion in incremental revenue by allow... More

Television is enjoying something of a golden age. With shows like The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones drawing praise as well as rabidly loyal viewers, it's often re... More

Based on recent analysis of the personalized content discovery market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Digitalsmiths with the 2013 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Lea... More