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Cannes Film Festival Puts on Its Virtual Reality Headset (Variety)

As virtual reality evolves beyond the realms of gaming and advertising and becomes an alternative medium for filmmakers and storytellers, Cannes has taken note. The festival this y... More

Podcasts Surge, but Producers Fear Apple Isn’t Listening (NY Times)

These days, many amateur podcasters are going professional. Major media organizations, searching for answers and bright spots in a fast-changing and confusing digital world, are re... More

Busting the Cable-Box Monopoly Is Overdue – Opinion (WSJ)

The perseverance of the set-top-box monopoly has been frustrating to watch. Prices for leased set-top boxes have risen 185% since 1994, according to the Federal Communications Comm... More

Warner Music Plans High-Res MQA Music Downloads (Twice)

Warner Music Group became the first major music label to announce plans to support the release of downloadable songs in the high-resolution MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) forma... More

Will HDR Lead To Another New HDMI Connector? (HD Guru)

High dynamic range (HDR) televisions are now in their second year, and most 2016 higher-end displays and supporting 4K Ultra HD source devices are equipped with at least one of the... More

Xstream, 24i Media Join Forces in Strategic Partnership (MESA)

Xstream has announced a strategic partnership 24i Media, enabling operators, content owners, broadcasters and media companies to unlock the revenue potential of Internet TV with qu... More

Why Digital Video Is the Ultimate Equalizer Among All Media (Adweek)

The popular media industry narrative has always revolved around a war between worlds. Television and video duking it out for primacy, especially around the NewFronts and upfronts s... More

Mobile Piracy Streaming on the Increase (TVBEurope)

Twenty-eight per cent of all visits to piracy sites in 2015 were through mobile devices, according to Muso a provider of content protection, data analytics and piracy audience solu... More

IBM Wants Everyone to Try a Quantum Computer (New York Times)

The possibilities of a new class of computers that are able to exploit the most basic properties of energy and matter to speed calculations beyond what is possible with today’s d... More

More than 1.5 Million 4K TVs and Thousands of 4K Blu-rays Sold so far in 2016, Despite Slow HDTV Sales (4k)

According to the research company’s quarterly home entertainment reporting and research, consumers in the U.S market have so far bought more than 1.5 million newer and older mode... More

NBC Sports to Leverage Periscope’s GoPro Integration for Kentucky Derby Coverage (The Drum)

The Kentucky Derby is fast approaching, and viewers, attendees, and NBC Sports know that this is no ordinary horse race: it’s an all-out spectacle. Derby Day is a fashion show, f... More

5 Notable Rovi Acquisitions Before TiVo (B&C)

Part of Rovi’s $1.1 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of TiVo includes the former adopting the latter’s name. But it was another name change for Rovi in 2009 that marked the p... More

House Judiciary Leaders Concerned About Set-Top Box Proposal’s Copyright Issues (Morning Consult)

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Rep. John Conyers (Mich.), the panel’s top Democrat, called on Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler... More

Snapchat User Content Fuels Jump to 10B Daily Video Views (AdAge)

The majority of people using Snapchat's application are making videos, fueling a boom in watching them, the company is telling its investors. More than a third of Snapchat's daily ... More

Snapchat Scores Unique Deal With NBC to Showcase Olympics (Bloomberg)

The Olympics are coming to Snapchat. The app scored a deal with Comcast Corp.’s NBC to show highlights from the 2016 Summer Games, the first time the U.S. network has agreed to s... More

Twitter Updates Periscope With Doodling Tool (IBT)

Wishing you could broadcast yourself with anyone or anything? With Twitter’s Periscope, you can, granted you have some creative talent. Periscope released an update this week tha... More

Evolution Digital Charts Success of Hybrid STB (Light Reading)

Evolution Digital today introduces a new product name, eBOX, for the company’s revolutionary IP Hybrid Set-Top Box. eBOX enables cable operators to seamlessly transition to IP di... More

For the First Time, Mobile Gaming Will Make more Money than Traditional Videogames (Quartz)

The threshold was crossed earlier this year and 2016 will be the first time mobile gaming from smartphones, tablets and other handheld devices generates more revenue than any other... More

Adobe Partners with Box, Microsoft for Enterprise Cloud Integration (GeekWire)

Box is currently storing more than 2 billion PDFs in the cloud, but before today, Adobe users needed to jump through hoops to get at those files. Now, Adobe and Box have teamed up ... More

AT&T: FCC Fighting Old Set-Top War (B&C)

A top AT&T exec says the FCC's set-top proposal is a foolish monstrosity and that the current commission is like an old general fighting the last war but with casualties to the bus... More

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