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Civolution and Broadcom Collaborate to Make Automatic Advertisement Recognition Available for Set-top Boxes (Broadcast Engineering)

Civolution, the leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetizing content, today announces its integration with set-top box chipsets from Broadc... More

SPT Networks Unveils Second Screen App (Broadband TV News)

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) Networks has unveiled a custom second screen viewing app to accompany the premiere of Hannibal, which it co-commissioned for its global portfolio of ... More

Neuro Study Finds Second-Screen Use Boosts Viewer Engagement (Marketing Mag)

In the ultimate pursuit to discover the impact of social media interaction on viewers’ engagement, MEC and Seven recently united to undertake a neuroscience study with Neuro-Insi... More

Nintendo Must Convey Usefulness of Wii U and Second Screen to Players, Miyamoto Says (Polygon)

Game designer Shigeru Miyamoto says there's still work to be done to convince players of the usefulness of the Wii U and its second screen, telling CNN Tech he believes players wil... More

NAB: Smith — Fox-to-Cable Highly Unlikely (Broadcasting & Cable)

Gordon Smith, president and CEO of the NAB, was hardly ruffled by comments made by News Corp. president/COO Chase Carey about potentially taking Fox off the broadcast platform. The... More

Civolution and Broadcom Collaborate to Make Automatic Advertisement Recognition Available for Set-top Boxes (Broadcast Engineering)

Civolution’s Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology will enable content to be automatically recognized on Broadcom’s highly scalable and flexible set-top box platforms ... More

AMD Chips to Make Their Way to Next Xbox Console (CNET)

Microsoft has signed on Advaned Micro Devices to deliver the processing power in its upcoming Xbox console, a new report claims. The next Xbox, which could be unveiled next month, ... More

JVC-TV Launches 50inch R-Series Set, Social-Media Promo (TWICE)

JVC-TV  introduced Monday a 50-inch R-series FullHD BlackCrystal edge-lit LED LCD TV featuring an ultra-slim bezel and 120Hz refresh rate. At the same time, the company unveiled a... More

Online Nearly Matches TV In Daily Usage (Media Life)

Internet advertising dollars still have a ways to go before they match television advertising. But in terms of the time people spend with the internet and television, digital has a... More

Blip to Fund Web Video Content Creators (Beet.TV)

While far lower that the $100 million spent by YouTube last year on content channel creators, Blip is going to fund several shows and will announce specifics at the upcoming Digita... More

NAB: Warner Bros. Picks Elemental for New Content Workflow System (IPTV News)

Elemental Technologies, a provider of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has won a contract with Hollywood studio Warner Bros. to enhance its Emmy Award-winning Digi... More

Murdoch-Diller Showdown Threatens to Make Fox Cable-Only (Bloomberg)

Murdoch’s News Corp. said yesterday it may end Fox’s 26- year run as a free broadcast channel if U.S. courts continue to allow the Diller-backed Internet startup Aereo Inc. to ... More

NPD: Game Consoles No. 1 Link Connecting TVs to the Internet (HMM)

Most households still link their TVs to the Internet via video game consoles, media players and Blu-ray Disc players, despite smart televisions dominating consumer electronics mark... More

NAB: Video Vendors Rally Around HEVC (Multichannel News)

Full-scale adoption of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)/H.265 by video service providers remains years away, but vendors are using this week's NAB show in Las Vegas to trot out ... More

Mark Burnett's 'The Bible' Becomes Top-Selling Miniseries on Blu-Ray and DVD (Hollywood Reporter)

Mark Burnett and Roma Downey’s The Bible is shattering sales records in its first week of home video release, selling 525,000 units to become the top-selling TV miniseries of all... More

Research: SVOD On Rise (Advanced Television)

Spotlighted by the success of services like Netflix and Hulu, SVOD seems poised to compete with traditional VOD offerings, and even position itself as a true rival of pay TV, the a... More

Microsoft Sheds Old TV Baggage to Focus on New Xbox (New York Times)

Microsoft is planning to reveal details about its new Xbox video game console at an event in May, as the games industry prepares for a new generation of hardware that it hopes will... More

NAB: Rovi Launches End-To-End Multi-Screen Solution (Videonet)

Rovi Corporation has unveiled DivX Video Service, an end-to-end video solution for multi-screen video delivery that is designed to integrate with and enhance TV Everywhere and OTT ... More

NAB 2013: Cisco, Fox Collaborate on Ethernet-Only Video Transport Mechanism (Rapid TV News)

After making a spate of strategic moves in the video industry, notably the buyout of NDS, Cisco has unveiled a slate of video plays based on its core Videoscape Unity solution. The... More