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Blu-ray Uptake Improving As Prices Drop (ZDNet)

Make Blu-ray almost as cheap as DVDs and it will sell. $40 Blu-ray players and $1.99 Blu-rays sell like hotcakes. Is the industry ready to accept near-DVD pricing for Blu-ray quali... More

Now TV Launches On Roku Streaming Players (Broadband TV News)

Now TV has been added to the Roku Channel Store and once registered viewers will be able to access content from the Sky Movies library. It is anticipated that Sky Sports will be ad... More

LinkedIn Blows Open Its Ad Platform (Adweek)

Today, LinkedIn will make it official: it’s in the advertising business. The business-centric social network still reaps the majority of its revenue from recruitment-related prod... More

Warner’s ‘Dark Knight Rises’ App Builds on Second-Screen Tech (HMM)

With each second-screen application, Warner Bros. just keeps adding more and more...... More

Google, Government Reps Warn Against Internet Regulation Summit (All Things D)

Three panelists — U.S. Ambassador David Gross, Google policy counsel Patrick Ryan and former Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Irving — presented a surprisingly unified arg... More

Akamai Touts Deep Analytics Products for Video (Beet.TV)

Akamai, one of the world's leading providers of cloud infrastructure and CDN services, is expanding its media services with a range of deep analytics tools, explains Bill Wheaton, ... More

Anarchy In The UK As Consumers Flock To OTT Video (IP&TV)

Consumers in the UK and US are changing the way they view TV and video content by increasingly taking control of how, when, and where they view it, according to new findings from A... More

Xbox 360 Outsells Wii U and Wii During Thanksgiving Week (LA Times)

The Xbox 360 not only outsold Nintendo's new Wii U during Thanksgiving week, but also outsold the Wii U and the original Wii combined...... More

Cable One Selects TiVo For Next-Generation TV Experience (Advanced TV)

Cable One, the USA’s 10th largest Cable MSO, has become the latest cable operator to offer the TiVo multi-screen, multi-source experience to its subscribers ... More

Analysis: Europe’s Telcos In Slow Lane As Cable Takes The Tape (Reuters)

Far from fearing the coming investment from Europe's telecom giants into superfast broadband, smaller cable firms believe they will still beat the big guns to the trigger...... More

Rovi Switches Off OTA-Delivered Guide Service (TWICE)

If you have an older television, DVD recorder or other device that incorporates an analog version of an onscreen electronic program guide (EPG) from TV Guide, GuidePlus, TV Guide O... More

Magic Ruby’s Second Screen Sons of Anarchy App Wins Big at Entertainment Industry’s TEC Awards (MarketWatch)

Magic Ruby, the leader in delivering monetizable content and applications for the second screen, today announced that the Sons of Anarchy app, "SOA Gear," developed by Magic Ruby f... More

Red Bee Media Supplies Live Subtitles for ESPN UK Live Sports (IBE)

Red Bee Media has announced a multi-year deal to supply live subtitles for ESPN UK's live sports network, starting from this month. The company explained that it's the first time t... More

Flingo Bets on Social TV Apps in Smart TVs (Beet.tv)

Less than 10% of the time people spend watching connected TVs is with over-the-top and virtual services, while more than 90% is still with traditional programming, and that ratio w... More

CEA Researcher: Growth in Tablet Market Could Make TVs the Second Screen (Hollywood Reporter)

Is the tablet ready to move from being the second screen to the primary screen? It might be, according to the Consumer Electronics Association's senior researcher, who noted that t... More

Wii U Gets Hulu Plus App with ‘Innovative Second-Screen Experience’ (Mobile & Apps)

Hulu announced on Tuesday, Nov. 20, that it has teamed up with Nintendo to bring its Hulu Plus app to the popular Wii U console. Much like the Netflix service on the Wii U, the Hul... More

Yahoo!’s IntoNow Partners with Nat Geo for ‘Doomsday Preppers’ and ‘Rocket City Rednecks’ (Lost Remote)

As the second space heats up it’s continuously harder for a TV network to find the right platform to build a unique partnership with. This month National Geographic Channel’s p... More

Turner Selects Kayak Workflow (TV News Check)

Turner Broadcasting System has chosen Digital Rapids' Kayak dynamic workflow platform as the technology foundation to power Turner's media processing operations for its current and... More

YouView Set to Debut Second-Screen App in December (Cable.co.uk)

Broadband-connected TV service YouView is set to introduce a second-screen app in the coming weeks. Initially launching for iOS devices, the app will allow YouView customers to acc... More