Jan 23 2012 - 3:41pm
As I listened to the pitch from FilmFresh during this month’s Consumer Electronics Show, I flashed back to start-up network hype from cable shows circa 1980. Although the company offers a
Jan 26 2012 - 4:30am
Patent wars will trigger “the biggest debate two from now” in the intellectual property arena, says Christine Varney, the former Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust and Federal
Jun 14 2011 - 9:53pm
I’m looking at an NCTA Show Daily dated May 5, 1998. The headline says “Interactive TV, really…we’re not kidding.”
Now I’m checking my notes from the April
Jun 21 2011 - 2:40am
More than 80% of viewers have a “connected device” — usually a smart phone and increasingly a tablet — close at hand when they are watching TV.
Those tools equip them to
Jun 24 2011 - 12:11pm
Is “new” better? Or even worth the effort? On his Web videocast The TV News this week, Jeff Grimshaw harangued Home Box Office for daring (with BBC as co-producer) to remake I,
Jul 3 2011 - 3:52am
July 4th weekend is typically not a big time for TV set sales. Other than Wimbledon, there is sparse programming that clatters for a new big screen in the home.
Hence the two full-page ads on the
Jul 9 2011 - 12:05pm
And for this week’s installment of the continuing saga of “Cord Cutting Forecasts,” we take a look at the entry from Knowledge Networks. The soothsayers there contend that 62%
Jul 13 2011 - 6:37pm
The AllVid Tech Company Alliance, a consortium of consumer electronics manufacturers and retailers, plus some other intriguing firms ranging from Sony, Mitsubishi and TiVo to Best Buy, The Shack (n
Jul 22 2011 - 7:32pm
Just a few years ago, Fuse TV was the “official broadcast partner” of Lollapalooza, the big late-summer Chicago music festival.
Next month, the event will be streamed by YouTube, which
Jul 27 2011 - 10:24pm
The public-private partnership needed for effective protection of “cyber-reliant critical infrastructures” has not yet coalesced, according to a Government Accountability Office report