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Apple TV Still a Hobby
By Paul Sweeting A recently discovered FCC filing by Apple does not contain good news for those banking on a fully integrated iTV set in the near future. Instead, the filing descr... More
M&E Journal: The Media Warehouse Concept for Electronic Media Content Distribution
By Steven Chester Purchase of consumer media content is rapidly migrating from ownership of physical media (DVD/Blu-ray) to virtual media (files on disk/cloud storage, streaming m... More
Netflix Gets DIALed In
By Paul Sweeting Netflix is partnering with YouTube to launch DIAL, a new app protocol that enables second-screen devices to discover first-screen devices on the same network and l... More
MegaUpload Founder's Encryption Prescription
By Paul Sweeting The Motion Picture Association of America and the U.S. Justice Department say they are still reviewing the details of the new encrypted online file-locker site M... More
Hard Times on High Street: U.K. M&E Retailers Calling It Quits
By Paul Sweeting January has been a brutal month for Britain's high-street media and entertainment retailers. In just the first 16 days, three major brick-and-mortar chains have e... More
The Next Battleground: Place-Shifting TV
By Paul Sweeting DISH Network's new "Hopper with Sling" DVR has been at the center of controversy since CES, though not for anything Dish itself did or said. Instead, controversy ... More
4K May Be Here to Stay
By Paul Sweeting With Ultra-HD TV sets costing $20,000 and up, 4K video is likely to remain out of reach to most consumers for some time yet. And it will still be a very heavy lif... More
Bringing Xbox To Every Screen
By Paul Sweeting Microsoft has acquired home automation and digital media startup id8 Group R2 Studios for an undisclosed sum, according to the Wall Street Journal, beating out Ap... More
Can the TV Industry Afford Ultra-HD?
By Paul Sweeting Several TV manufacturers are expected to be showing off their 4K ultra-HD TV (UHDTV) prototypes next week at CES in Las Vegas, and at least a few, including Sony,... More
A Nimble Competitor for Aereo
By Paul Sweeting Live TV streaming service Aereo remains locked in a pitched legal battle with broadcasters over the legality of its business but it could soon find itself fending... More
Saffron Digital Poised for Growth in 2013
By Lyndsey Schaefer Following the development and launch of unique proprietary technologies such as the Saffron Secure Player in 2012, multi-platform online video delivery company... More
Facebook Targets TV, Mobile Ad Budgets
By Paul Sweeting Over-the-top and online video have diverted a lot of viewing away from traditional TV channels but up to now advertising dollars haven't followed those eyeballs o... More
Nielsen Gets Social
By Paul Sweeting TV ratings service Nielsen has been aggressive lately in moving to stake a claim to the increasingly critical business of social TV metrics. Last month, Nielsen a... More
An Apple TV For Christmas? Maybe Next Year
By Paul Sweeting The technology press and Wall Street analysts who follow Apple have built a thriving cottage industry out of speculating on the timing and features of what they'r... More
‘Mobile’ Video Not So Mobile
By Paul Sweeting Amazon today released an Amazon Instant Video app for the iPhone and iPod touch adding potentially millions of new mobile devices to the platform. According to a ... More
Hollywood IT Industry Mourns Loss of Disney’s Mirich
By Lyndsey Schaefer “Generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one as ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.” This sentiment of Albert Einstein about Gand... More
MPAA CEO Chris Dodd Calls for Cooperation between Hollywood and Silicon Valley
By Lyndsey Schaefer Los Angeles -- One year after Hollywood’s epic battle with the technology industry over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Motion Picture Association of Americ... More
CEA and NCTA Sign Energy Pact For Set-Top Boxes
By Paul Sweeting Anyone who has ever done a home energy audit knows that their cable or satellite set-top box or DVR is an energy hog. According to a study last year by the Energy... More
Netflix: A New Way to Watch Pay-TV
By Paul Sweeting Among the many intriguing elements of Disney's newly inked movie distribution deal with Netflix one of the more interesting to watch will be whether it affects th... More
Chuck Parker: Driving Digital Video Ownership
I had the opportunity yesterday to share the stage with rockstar analysts Tom Adams (of IHS Screen Digest), Annie Arroyo of the NPD Group, and Larry Taman of GfK to discuss an indu... More