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Covering cable TV, broadband and Internet video technologies.

Netflix is seeking a Director of Truthiness. The Internet streamer brags about how it uses Google-y Big Data algorithms to push video recommendations -- and inform its
Remember the copyright-infringement lawsuit Viacom flung at YouTube waaaay back in 2007? That was Internet light-years ago, but the suit lives on.
You meant to watch Ken Burns’ The Dust Bowl on PBS on your DVR, right? So did I -- but I never got around to it. A whopping 41% of recorded content on Americans
It’s a question that has perplexed many: Why hasn’t the Internet punctured the TV business the way it has decimated music sales? A few weeks ago in USA
If you’re running, say, 300 Netflix accounts all streaming video simultaneously to your house, you’re definitely in the market for a 1 Gigabit per second
Evoking the heyday of ’80s hair-metal bands, Dish Network has filed for a trademark on “NÜTV” -- complete with an umlaut. What’s the news
You or someone you know might be a workaholic. Media and entertainment executives are more likely to work outside regular business hours than professionals in most
Here comes HEVC -- the High Efficiency Video Coding spec, which gained initial ITU approval in January (see ITU OKs Next-Generation Video Codec Standard).
There were 9 billion reasons last year why TV programmers and operators should get on the same page for VOD advertising. That’s the estimated number of free VOD
You’ve seen Big Buck Bunny, right? That’s the HD clip released in 2008 as an open-source project by Amsterdam’s Blender Foundation to showcase 3D