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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Paul Sweeting Cable and satellite operators have long complained about high programming costs, particularly when it comes to sports programming. But at the UBS Media and Commun... More

By Paul Sweeting More people buy Android devices than buy iOS devices but they don't seem to do much with them. In a widely discussed blog post yesterday, Asymco analyst Horace Ded... More

Today is Cyber Monday, when Americans are projected to spend $1.5 billion shopping online. That comes on top of the $1 billion they spent online on Black Friday, the more tradition... More

By Paul Sweeting The spiraling cost of sports programming is already riling the pay-TV industry by driving up subscriber fees, but don't expect any respite from the tension in the... More

By Paul Sweeting Movies, video games and consumer electronics will be featured heavily in Black Friday sales this year. If there is a Black Friday this year, that is. Walmart, the ... More

By Paul Sweeting Time Warner-owned Turner Sports partnered with CBS back in 2010 to put up $10.8 billion over 14 years for TV and digital rights to the NCAA's March Madness basket... More

By Paul Sweeting With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in Washington preparing to hear oral arguments over the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules... More

By Paul Sweeting Americans started showing signs of falling out of the habit of watching television in 2012. Total viewing time was down 2% in the first quarter of the year, and d... More

By Paul Sweeting The search for a better way to navigate among the growing thicket of channels and apps showing up on TVs continues. Google rolled out its bid to reinvent the TV i... More