- Homeland Security: The reality show
- CNET News - 15 hours ago
- New ABC television series will follow the men and women of various DHS agencies as they protect the U.S. borders.
- Verismo VuNow Set-Top Box Due Dec. 15
- Digital Trends News - November 26, 2008
- Online video startup Verismo has announced its plans to launch sales of its VuNow set-top boxes beginning December 15. Although the market for TV add-ons that enable users to stream Internet-based video to their televisions is getting crowded—w...
- Sling Rolls Out Video Portal
- Digital Trends News - November 26, 2008
- Sling Media, an Echostar subsidiary since last year, has opened the doors on a public beta version of its video streaming portal Sling.com, featuring current television content from networks like NBC, CBS, and Fox, along with a selection of movies, o...
- Sony Bravia Internet Link Picks Up Slacker
- Digital Trends News - November 21, 2008
- Sony continues to expand content offerings available via its Bravia Internet Video Link service, adding content from Slacker Personaal Radio and Howcast Media to its on-demand offerings."Internet content is expanding faster than ever and we are ...
- Vizio Launches New LCD TVs, Full HD Monitor
- Digital Trends News - November 20, 2008
- Low-cost HDTV manufacturer Vizio has formally announced three new small-screen LCD televisions, a new sound bar, and a new 26-inch Full HD multimedia monitor. But the big announcement is literally large: Vizio plans to introduce a 55-inch LCD HDTV wi...
- Mobile Users Want Ease Of Use, Not TV
- Digital Trends News - November 18, 2008
- New research reports from JupiterResearch and Azuki Systems find that U.S. mobile phone users have been slow to embrace mobile television service offerings, but would happily use more Internet services if they could just do it more easily.A new repor...
- TiVo Brings Customers Extra Cheese
- Digital Trends News - November 17, 2008
- It's possible someone who's been paying even a tiny bit of attention to the evolution of interactive home video technology didn't see this one coming…but we don't know how. DVR pioneer TiVo announced today that it has added the...
- Reed Hastings: Wii controller, browser make for fab Web TV
- CNET News - November 13, 2008
- Netflix CEO says televisions equipped with Wii-like pointers and Web browsers key to future of Internet video.
- Sharp, LG, and Chunghwa Price fixing
- Digital Trends News - November 13, 2008
- In a plea deal with a federal court in San Francisco, LCD manufacturers Chunghwa, LG and Sharp have agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to drive up the prices of LCD displays used in everything from computers and televisions to mobile phones and gam...
- Flat-panel TV shipments begin their decline
- CNET News - November 11, 2008
- The third quarter of 2008 saw the weakest growth in LCD and plasma television shipments to retailers in almost two years.
- So whatever happened to Google $1,000?
- CNET News - November 11, 2008
- Got a crystal ball and an itch to yammer in front of a television camera? Boy, do we have the job for you. Become a Google analyst!
- MGM Brings Full-Length Content to YouTube
- Digital Trends News - November 10, 2008
- Online video sharing service YouTube might be best known for amateur videos and short clips, but Google's effort to monetize the service is luring in more full-length content from major Hollywood studios. Last month, YouTube launched full-length ...
- Video Games to be UK's Top Media Format?
- Digital Trends News - November 5, 2008
- Everybody knows the video game industry has been growing quickly over the last decade, and is not intimately intertwined with major forms of mass media like movies and television shows. After all, video-game based movies are now old hat—hey, an...
- Study Links Violent Sites and Violent Youth
- Digital Trends News - November 5, 2008
- For years, research studies have purported to find—and not find—links between violent media like television, movies, and video games, and actual acts of violence committed by consumers of that media. Now, the journal Pediatrics is weighin...
- FCC Approves Whitespace Plan
- Digital Trends News - November 5, 2008
- The Federal Communications Commission has voted to approve a plan (PDF) that will allow wireless devices to operate in unused "whitespaces" in the television broadcast spectrum. The whitespace plan has been backed by technology companies like Google...
