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Social television app Zeebox has been downloaded more than one million times in the United States over the last three months, adding some weight to its claim of being the market le... More

As we head into CES Monday, I thought I would post a teaser of some of the data we will present at the 2nd Screen Summit (held at the Wynn, 1-6pm, cocktails to follow).  2012 was ... More

Forget the so-called second screen, tablet computers may be on their way to becoming the true primary screen. The devices appear to be cannibalizing the market for both notebook co... More

There doesn’t seem to be a business Sony isn’t in: TVs, phones, Blu-ray players, audio equipment are just a few. One of the surprises to come from the technology giant’s CES ... More

It's getting harder and harder to pull apart "Second Screen as a Companion Experience" and "Second Screen as the First Screen Viewing Experience".  The living room and the tablet ... More

Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), introduces new Slingbox platform developments designed to enhance the TV-viewing experience for... More

Hollywood’s era of plummeting home entertainment revenue is finally over. After seven straight years of falling returns driven by the collapse of DVD sales, Americans in 2012 spe... More

Aereo, which offers a way for people to watch and save TV shows on their mobile devices, has so far been available only in New York City. Now, Aereo is undertaking a rapid roll-out... More

As part of a push to jumpstart the new 4K format, Sony announced that it would launch a 4K movie download service in the summer of 2013 and that it would begin selling a number of ... More

In the wake of the massacre of 20 children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School last December, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden took the helm of a task force aimed at dr... More

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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