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Testronic Announces Expansion of File-Based QC Lab (CreativeCOW)

Testronic Labs, a global leader in quality assurance services for film and television, games, consumer electronics, enterprise, and publishing, has completed a significant expansio... More

CES: Rovi Seeks To Bring IP Video Into Cable Environment (IP&TV)

Rovi, a provider of digital entertainment solutions, has revealed that it is developing a new IP software platform that will enable cable TV operators to deliver IP-based multi-scr... More

CNET Blocks Dish From CES Awards Over CBS Lawsuit (Forbes)

An award celebrating the best of tech fell victim to legal wrangling Thursday. CNET has dropped Dish Network’s new DVR product from its CES awards consideration, citing a lawsuit... More

CES 2013: Goodbye Megapixel Race, Hello Hybrid Innovation (MediaShift)

Digital competition over the last few decades has led to rich 16-bit (and better) audio, professional photos of dozens of megapixels, high dpi color printing, and rich high-definit... More

CES: Samsung OLED TV Gets Quadruple Vision (Multichannel News)

Samsung Electronics is showing off an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) HDTV here at the 2013 International CES that transmits four images simultaneously -- allowing two differen... More

TDG: US Pay-TV Has Peaked (Advanced TV)

According to forecasts from TDG, the number of US households that subscribe to traditional ‘cable-like’ pay-TV peaked in the last two years and is projected to decline from nea... More

Studio Execs Emphasize Ownership (HMM)

Mike Dunn, president of 20thCentury Fox Home Entertainment, does not want to be in the digital book business. He just wants home entertainment to see the same hockey-stick economic... More

Cinemax Series 'Banshee' Aims To Hold On To Viewers Beyond TV (LA Times)

As the opening credits of the new Cinemax series "Banshee" begin, the dial of an old steel safe spins, tumblers locking to reveal a combination that viewers can use to crack open "... More

People Don't Use TV Apps, and Mobile Gaming Is Set to Implode (Adweek)

Instead of exclusively interacting with their cable company’s electronic programming guide, or through a secondary device like an Xbox, the Samsungs, Sonys and LGs of the world s... More

CES: Second-Screen Apps Central to Multiplatform Efforts (Broadcasting & Cable)

Executives from a number of major programmers and studios stressed the growing importance of second-screen applications and experiences for their multiplatform strategies during va... More

Audible Magic Introduces ACR-Enhanced Features for Slingbox Companion App First Introduced at CES (CNBC)

Audible Magic, the leader in automated content recognition (ACR) solutions, announced that Audible Magic’s Smart ID ACR system will be embedded into the Slingbox hardware platfor... More

Flingo Samba Blurs Line Between First and Second Screen Viewing (Smart TV Radar)

The problem with ‘second screen‘ viewing, according to Flingo’s Ashwin Navin, is that it is a “disjointed experience of second screen apps, which don’t really mesh with t... More

KIT Digital Content Solutions Rebrands as “utd. by Content” (Streaming Media)

KIT Digital Content Solutions has a new corporate identity that sees the company rebrand as utd. by content. "The move is the final stage of the transition from being an integral p... More

Red Bee Engaged for Smarter Metadata for Samsung Smart TVs (Rapid TV News)

In a bid to make its range of smart TVs even smarter, Samsung has selected Red Bee Media to provide rich metadata services for its new range of connected TVs across 13 European mar... More

ConnecTV Announces New Ad Network with “Second Screen” Experience (Broadcast Engineering)

ConnecTV, based in Emeryville, CA, is launching a new kind of advertising network that will enable brands to enhance their television commercials by delivering a second-screen expe... More

DG and Audible Magic Unveil Synchronized Ad Service at CES (PR Newswire)

DG, (NASDAQ: DGIT), the world’s leading ad management and distribution platform, and Audible Magic, the leading provider of automated content recognition (ACR) technologies, toda... More

Samsung, Panasonic Take on Social TV at CES (Washington Post)

There was a time when TV check-in apps like Viggle and Get Glue seemed edgy and cool. But the latest talk from the Consumer Electronics Show promises to push social TV way beyond a... More

CBS Super Bowl ‘Second Screen’ Stream to Include Alternate Cameras, DVR Functionality (Engadget)

With the heavy responsibility of handling the Super Bowl XLVII livestream, CBS is focusing in on what football fans really want: commercials. Well, that, and real-time statistic up... More

Cox Goes All-In with Second-Screen App Strategy (MediaPost)

The battle for the second screen gets hotter at the Consumer Electronics Show this week as cable and satellite service providers try to get a piece of the action. Cox Communication... More