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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
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
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
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
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,
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
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%
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
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
The public-private partnership needed for effective protection of “cyber-reliant critical infrastructures” has not yet coalesced, according to a Government Accountability Office report