Japan's Toshiba have shelved plans to sell organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays in 2009-10. CNET reports that because of the cost of mass production, Toshiba will stick to its plans to...
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DirecTV recently purchased ReplayTV according to a recent article on The Hollywood Reporter. ReplayTV, along with TiVo, invented the DVR but was nearly sued out of existence. In the early...
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Looks Like video 'gamers' are on their way to being the dominant market for high-end audio and video components according to a report conducted by Nielsen Research Group (NRG), in partnership...
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Looks like this holiday season will see a lot of high definition televisions fly off the shelves this shopping season. Results of a recent holiday buying guide survey conducted by the Consumer...
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According to Home Media Research, Sony's Blu-ray DVDs outsold Toshiba developed, HD DVDs 2-1 in the first nine months of the year. Approximately 2.6 million Blu-ray DVD units sold compared to just...
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Do any of these new shows appeal to you? Fox has a show called "Kitchen Nightmares" which is a reality show starring the demanding chef Gordon Ramsay, the star of another hit reality show on...
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A unit of media NBC Universal has signed a deal with Israeli start-up Hiro Media to enable ad-supported downloads. This suggests a willingness of NBC to allow its content onto peer-to-peer, or P2P,...
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Think Outside the Cable Box Something that I've preached about often here is how broadband is really an alternative distribution channel for video that allows for so many more possibilities than...
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The Game Show Network (err, excuse me they were renamed with the ever so trendy new moniker: GSN) has a new program called Without Prejudice? The New York Times describes it this way: The 60-minute...
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"For years, everyone programmed Saturday night with originals. Now, nobody programs Saturday. Maybe that will happen with Friday?" ... a network simply "can't afford to pay for 19...
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Want more evidence that things are really changing. I offer this little nugget: U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA) became the first member of the House of Representatives to launch his own Facebook...
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You heard it here first. Paris Hilton must run for President. Of the United States. Stop laughing, I'm serious. As you may or may not know, CNN (the venerable bastion of news integrity) scooped...
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The DVD rental market is one place I am happy not to be competing in. Netflix Inc. lowered its monthly fee for a popular subscription plans by $1, matching a similar reduction made by rival...
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Google's mission statement reads: "Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Fair enough. It's unofficial motto made famous is that...
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The NYT writes: After some hits and misses in creating content for cellphones, ESPN thinks it knows how to keep up with its fans as they go about their days. Cellphones and other mobile devices, says...
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HD-DVD Association: Don't hate us because turkey movies come out in our format! In the titanic battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD for supremacy in the home, Sony (who backs the Blu-ray standard)...
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THERE WAS AN interesting piece in Tuesday's Seattle Times that delved into the many and increasingly creative tactics being pursued by a growing number of TV companies to retain viewers at the...
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Things are different. Television audiences are smaller and I'm not just talking about this week or this month -- rather, it is for the whole year. Take your pick: bad stories, broadband video,...
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There is no end to the number of cross-medium experiments being done. Here is more proof: Sony Pictures Television will launch the Jeopardy! Google Daily Challenge on June 4. This is a play-at-home...
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