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Global TV shipments fell 6.3% in 2012, undermined by declining sales in Japan and softening demand in North America and Western Europe, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli. ... More

Chad Hurley, one of the co-founders who launched online video powerhouse YouTube in 2005, is spearheading a new kind of video platform. Hurley first teased MixBit at the South by S... More

Cinedigm manages a library of 1,200 documentaries, which it will exploit for an upcoming Docurama channel that will be available on the Internet, mobile devices and other platforms... More

Results of a new survey released by Consumer Reports suggest consumers are pretty happy with the triple play. Among more than 20,000 individuals surveyed, 75% of those who reported... More

A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a bid by TV networks to immediately shut down Internet video service Aereo. The 2-1 decision upheld a lower court's ruling from July not... More

While millions of cord cutters are eagerly awaiting their chance to subscribe to HBOGo, the CEO of the company that helps ensure that HBO’s over the top content looks good is ske... More

USA Network says it has upgraded the second-screen experience it provides viewers by allowing fans of its shows to access custom content, video, voting and poling and interact thro... More

ReDigi Inc., an online service that lets people buy and sell second-hand digital songs, violates the copyrights of Vivendi SA's Capitol Records, a federal judge ruled. U.S. Distric... More

Warby Parker is part of a wave of e-commerce companies that are trying to build premium brands at discount prices by cutting out middlemen and going straight to manufacturers. The ... More

The optical transport network (OTN) equipment market is well on its way to topping the $13 billion mark by 2017, according to a recent study by Infonetics Research. Last year the O... More

This is a nightmare scenario for broadcasters, although it appears from The Wall Street Journal’s report this morning that no deals are immanent. The story says that Aereo —... More

According to findings from adaptive web development software solutions specialist Netbiscuits, the web is changing so rapidly that many organisations are still unprepared for the f... More

This isn't a new idea. Apple, Google and Microsoft have also wanted to reshape television in a similar way, but have yet to convince Time Warner, NBC Universal and Viacom to licens... More

MLB Advanced Media, pro baseball’s digital arm, continues to find interesting ways to promote its popular subscription service. Here’s the latest: Free streaming across Faceboo... More

Motive Television PLC, is working with Granite Broadcasting to delivery live broadcast television to tablet devices. Motive, a London-based television software and services company... More

The annual spending on games in the USA for new retail games in 2012 was $7.1 billion, which represented about 48 percent of the total of $14.8 billion spent on games. That's right... More

Worldwide shipments of smart connected devices—defined as desktop and portable computers, tablets and smartphones—surpassed 1 billion units in 2012 and were valued at $577 bill... More

At Harvard Law School's Sports Law Symposium today, HBO Sports president Ken Hershman said that live sports would be on HBO Go by the end of this year, bringing real-time sports to... More

As the online video industry gears up for the arrival of HEVC technology, Envivio and Broadcom are collaborating on encoder and decoder interoperability supporting the new standard... More