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Sony Pictures, Universal, Warner Bros. Choose Dolby Digital Plus for Ultraviolet Content (Hollywood Reporter)
Dolby revealed on Monday that the three studios intend to use the Dolby format when encoding their content to the UltraViolet Common File Format. The CFF is currently being testing... More
Hunting For Big Game: Consoles Evolve Into Streaming Platforms (Variety)
The transition of videogame consoles into something more than just game machines started in 2000. Sony, in one of its most prescient moves, included a DVD player in the PlayStation... More
Best Buy, Wal-Mart Bring Disc-To-Digital Conversion Home (Reuters)
Retailers Best Buy Co Inc and Wal-Mart Stores Inc are enhancing their video streaming services to let customers convert previously purchased physical DVDs into digital copies witho... More
Time Warner CFO: 9 Million UltraViolet Accounts Registered (HMM)
Consumers registered about 9 million movies and TV shows to the UltraViolet digital locker by end of 2012, Time Warner CFO John Martin told an investor group. Speaking Jan. 7 at th... More
Dish Adds Sling to Hopper DVR (LA Times)
Satellite TV provider Dish Network is doubling down on its legally edgy bet on a powerful new digital video recorder. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday, Dish ... More
AT&T Takes on Netflix, Hulu with Own VOD Service (CNET)
As more consumers consider dropping their cable TV in lieu of Web-based alternatives, including Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, AT&T said today that it is offering the U-Verse... More
Netflix in Deal to Carry Warner Bros TV Shows (Reuters)
Netflix Inc will carry previous seasons of some popular shows produced by Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros. Television as it braces for stiffer competition from new video-streaming ri... More
Consumers Starting To Sour On Single-Function Electronic Gadgets: Report (Deadline)
That’s good news for makers of multi-function devices led by computers, smartphones, tablets, and HDTVs — but potentially worrisome for makers of, say, Blu-ray players — con... More
Broadcasters and Publishers to Benefit from DG and Civolution's Synchronized Ad Platform Availability (Sacramento Bee)
Available now for broadcasters and publishers, the end-to-end solution combines DG's MediaMind video ad serving platform, asset tagging and metadata with Civolution's multi-award w... More
Global Gadget Spending Projected To Hit $1.1 Trillion In 2013 (LA Times)
Global spending on consumer electronic devices is projected to hit $1.1 trillion in 2013, according to the Consumer Electronics Assn. During a media briefing Sunday, Steve Koenig, ... More
Nvidia Unveils Hand-Held Console (BBC News)
Project Shield is Android-based and marries a 5in (12.7cm) touch-screen with joysticks, buttons and other controls, in a clam-shell design. It is also designed to link to PCs offer... More
Dish’s New Second-Screen App Looks Good, Which Should Worry Its Competition (GigaOm)
Dish entered the second-screen game this week at CES, offering its subscribers an iOS app that combines the traditional programming grid with social discovery and remote control ca... More
Smart TV In 2013 – A Trickle, Not A Torrent (GamesIndustry International)
Those of you with long memories may recall that 2012 was also eagerly heralded as being the year of the Smart TV, but there are far more voices in the heraldic choir this year - an... More
DivX Plus Streaming Approved for UltraViolet (HMM)
Rovi Corp.’s DivX streaming format has been approved by the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) for streaming use with UltraViolet. DECE is the industry-wide consortiu... More
Sizing Up the CES Crapshoot (Adweek)
he holidays are over. Time to go on that diet and hit the gym. Or you could destroy all those New Year’s resolutions in a flash by attending the annual Consumer Electronics Show ... More
Roku Adds More TV Partners, Looks Beyond the Set-Top Box (All Things D)
Last year, when Roku first announced plans for its Streaming Stick — which compresses the features of a Roku Web TV box into a thumb-drive-sized, wireless dongle — it came with... More
RCA Looks to Make Mark in Tablet Market With Free Live TV (All Things D)
It’s not a name you hear too often anymore when it comes to tech products, but today, RCA introduced a new Android tablet that lets you watch live TV on the go for free. The RCA ... More
ConnecTV is Bringing Ads to TV Viewers’ Mobile Devices (Los Angeles Times)
A technology company whose iPad and computer application seeks to make television viewing more "social" is working to make TV commercials more interactive too. ConnecTV is launchin... More
Magic Ruby to Unveil Live Sync Capabilities for the Second Screen at CES 2013 (MarketWatch)
Magic Ruby, the leader in delivering monetizable content and applications for the second screen, today announced it will showcase its Second Screen Production Platform that will po... More
