- Sony Abandons Rear Projection for LCD TV
- Digital Trends News - December 28, 2007
- Citing a drop in demand, Sony is going to shift its focus in flat screen technology. As of February, it will no longer manufacture the rear-projection type of television, according to a BBC report. Instead, it will put its money on LCD and the b...
- Study: Ads in Online Shows Better Than TV
- Digital Trends News - December 27, 2007
- A new survey conducted by media consultancy outfit Simmons finds that U.S. consumers are 47 percent more "engaged" with advertisements that appear in online versions of television shows than they are with ads appearing in standard television. Accordi...
- Sharp and Toshiba Team up on Flat Panels
- Digital Trends News - December 24, 2007
- Despite fierce competition on the surface of the flat panel television market, under the all the brand names and marketing, many manufacturers actually share the same parts in their televisions. Toshiba and Sharp, already allies in the flat panel bus...
- Microsoft quietly combines TV efforts
- CNET News - December 21, 2007
- The software maker creates a single business unit to handle its IP television, Media Center PC and HD-DVD efforts.
- What is the Digital Television Transition and How Will it Affect You?
- Press Releases - December 20, 2007
- Online Video Viewers Want TV
- Digital Trends News - December 20, 2007
- A new poll from Harris Interactive finds that an increasing number of Internet users are tuning into online video, they'd really rather watch full-length television shows and movies rather than user-generated video, news, or sports.Unsurprisingly, th...
- Matsushita, Hitachi Talking LCD Panel Deal
- Digital Trends News - December 19, 2007
- Back when mass-market flat panel televisions started to look more like a reality than some crazy prop on a Star Trek show, Japanese Matsushita bet heavily on plasma technology, believe it would be the most cost effective flat-screen technology at siz...
- Viacom and Microsoft Parter on Content, Ads
- Digital Trends News - December 19, 2007
- Computing giant Microsoft and entertainment conglomerate Viacom have inked a long-term content distribution and advertising agreement that, among other things, will see Viacom television and film content made available via MSN and the Xbox 360. Altho...
- MTV, Jerry Bruckheimer Launch Game Studio
- Digital Trends News - December 19, 2007
- Viacom's MTV Networks and well-known television and movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer (CSI, Armageddon, Top Gun, the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, etc.) have inked a deal to launch a new video game development studio. The new units will operate wi...
- Supreme Master Television - The World’s First All-Positive Free-t...
- Press Releases - December 17, 2007
- Will Google Bid On UK Radio Spectrum?
- Digital Trends News - December 17, 2007
- It’s called the digital dividend, the part of the radio spectrum that will be freed up over the next few years as the UK moves from analogue to digital signals for television and radio. What the dividend is, really, is that amount that wil...
- Sharp Sues Samsung Over Korean LCDs Patents
- Digital Trends News - December 13, 2007
- Sharp's battle with Samsung over LCD patents is heating up: following up on similar lawsuits the company filed in the U.S. and Japan in October, electronics maker Sharp has filed suit against technology giant Samsung, alleging the company is violatin...
- Brits Have Best Bundle Deals
- Digital Trends News - December 13, 2007
- Bundling together services like digital TV and broadband, along with landline phone, has become more commonplace internationally. But if you’re looking for the best prices on bundles, you should move to Britain (although you’ll pay more f...
- Digital TV Converters Coming to Retailers
- Digital Trends News - December 12, 2007
- Retailers are getting ready to begin offering the U.S. public digital television converter boxes so Americans can keep watching their beloved old-school analog televisions when analog television broadcasts are finally terminated on February 17, 2009....
- No Pre-Christmas Wii Ads in UK
- Digital Trends News - December 12, 2007
- UK television viewers will notice something missing in the run up to Christmas shopping. That’s because Nintendo has decided to pull its advertising for the popular Wii console. Why? After all, this should be the busiest time of the year, ...
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