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By Ramón Bretón, Chief Technology Officer, 3rd i QC - Since the days of the first magic lantern shows, the art of visual storytelling has evolved, becoming more lifelike with ... More

TiVo-owned content discovery platform Fan TV has been upgraded with new personalization and discovery features, and is now available on both Apple TV and Roku, TiVo announced Sept.... More

To help mark its 25th anniversary, the acclaimed “Charlie Rose” TV program has launched a new online content portal, allowing the PBS interview show’s staff to curate more th... More

As the number of skinny bundles and other over-the-top (OTT) services continue to proliferate, it’s too soon to say whether cord cutting and cord shaving by consumers will stabil... More

IMAX has aggressive plans for virtual reality (VR) at theaters, but the company probably won’t be taking its planned VR Centers nationwide in the U.S. for another two years, acco... More

By Steven L. Canepa and Chad M. Andrews, IBM Video is the most popular form of content consumption on the planet, generating behemoth revenues through traditional business model... More

The co-authors of a new book that looks at the importance of big data for entertainment companies dealing with an increasingly competitive landscape will both be on hand Oct. 18 in... More

Since it first came on the media and entertainment scene in 2012, New York-based DevSpark has had a well-defined business model: design and build digital content companies the best... More

There is still a lot of consumer education that needs to be done around the Ultra High-Def (UHD) Blu-ray format, along with more promotional activity, and those efforts will “ram... More

Members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) continued to announce new technologies and partnerships at the IBC conference in Amsterdam, and it’s been an especia... More

Just a day after the new TiVo was introduced, the company used IBC to debut a new user interface and to share the results of a survey that should raise some eyebrows among broadcas... More

Following a final TiVo shareholder vote, Rovi’s $1.1 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of the company is complete, and Rovi Sept. 8 announced it was following through on its pro... More

While dozens of members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) are at this week’s IBC conference in Amsterdam, announcing new technologies and new partnerships... More

Todd Collart, GM and SVP of Deluxe Digital Distribution, has been to his fair share of IBC conferences. And he sees this week’s Sept. 8-13 confab in Amsterdam offering more than... More

Steve Brown, the longtime president and CEO of Cinram International, has left the company, the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) has learned. First coming on as hea... More

The annual Amsterdam IBC tech gathering may still be a week away, but IBM’s Aspera is getting a head start. The company announced Sept. 1 that Sky, Europe’s biggest entertai... More

After more than two years at the helm of Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS), president Bob Toohey has stepped down, to take over as EVP for AOL, which Verizon acquired for $4.4 ... More

It’s not just video games and Hollywood entertainment looking for an edge with virtual reality. Technicolor-owned VFX house The Mill — which was acquired for nearly $294 mil... More

A year after launching Ven.ue, a cloud-based offering, designed to let distributors pair linear broadcasts with OTT and mobile offerings, Sony DADC New Media Solutions is giving th... More

There’s no shortage of benefits for broadcasters who latch on to ATSC 3.0, the IP-based, next-gen industry standard that allows for over-the-air delivery of everything from immer... More