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With online sales up 18 per cent over the recent Christmas period it seems that enticing customers in-store is becoming increasingly challenging. Augmented reality could be the sol... More

It was fitting that the 19th Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony boosted its social media profile this year. One of the night's most popular bits basically rehashed a viral Faceboo... More

For the first time in the show’s history, a brand new second screen app from BBC Worldwide will accompany the international broadcasts of Top Gear. Set to be broadcast ‘just da... More

BSkyB will for the first time allow customers to watch its sports channels on a pay-as-you go basis for £9.99 a day, the first time it has ever allowed access to prime content suc... More

While the cable show is dominated by operators and the NAB event is mostly about operations and technology, NATPE has taken a stand on behalf of those who buy and sell the content ... More

Consumers' insatiable love affair with streaming video — at home and on the go — is at the heart of Netflix's rebound and the continued rise of its competition. Netflix is now ... More

"Television has been the same for the last fifty years or so," says Mattias Hjelmstedt, co-founder of Magine, a Stockholm-based entertainment platform that has gone "back to the dr... More

Comcast Corp. has started charging US$1.99 per month for Digital Transport Adapters (DTAs), the small channel-zappers that fueled the cable operator's plan to reclaim valuable anal... More

Time Warner Cable, the second- largest U.S. cable-TV operator, plans to keep scrutinizing and pressuring small cable channels even though they aren't the problem in consumers' big ... More

Here’s more money going into Web video ads — or, more accurately, to the people who bring you Web video ads: Satellite broadcaster DirecTV has led a funding round for FreeWheel... More

The biggest danger facing the success of Steam Box or any other PC ecosystem hoping to find space in the living room is Apple, according to a lecture given by Valve co-founder Gabe... More

Nintendo has just cut sales predictions for its brand-new Wii U games console after a disappointing quarter. The machine is bold, brave, unusual...and yet these figures hint it mig... More

Sky has signed a new deal with Sony Pictures Television to keep new release movies exclusively for a year before they can be shown by rival broadcasters or VoD providers such as Ne... More

Another sign that live streamed video is going to be major in 2013: online video platform Ooyala and video workflow provider iStreamPlanet announced a partnership today based on li... More

Sales of Blu-ray Disc and DVD movies remain the largest source of revenue for the movie industry, accounting for 61% of home video spending on movies (excluding Netflix and other s... More

Broadpeak’s nanoCDN solution will be launched commercially early this year, giving telcos and cable operators the opportunity to reduce bandwidth consumption and simultaneously i... More

We’re in the age of billions of video clips on YouTube and other sites, and it’s overwhelming. Want to find a video of the protests in Syria? There were more than 350,000 uploa... More

The quirky little start-up that once printed money by mailing you DVDs is hell-bent on morphing into the HBO—and the network, and the any-show, any-time streaming service—of to... More

Super Bowl sponsors are touting a new rationale for the record $4 million they’re spending on some 30-second spots this year: that viewers of the most-watched U.S. TV event will ... More