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...
- Where to get Election Day results
- CNET News - November 4, 2008
- Forget television: this is the first year that you can realistically watch the election entirely online. Read on for our recommendations of what sites to visit on Election Day.
TV Watching and Net Surfing Go Together- Digital Trends News - November 3, 2008
- It's one of those lifestyle trends that's been spoken about for years, but research firm The Nielsen Company is putting some numbers behind the idea. According to the company's new TV/Internet Convergence Panel, the heaviest Internet user...
Mitsubishi's LaserVue HDTV Goes on Sale- Digital Trends News - October 29, 2008
- Mitsubishi Digital Electronics demonstrated its laser-based television technology at the beginning of the year at the Las Vegas CES show, but the company is only now making the technology available to consumers, announcing that its 65-inch LaserVue H...
iSuppli: HDTV Shipments Pass Standard TVs- Digital Trends News - October 23, 2008
- Market analysis firm iSuppli has released its forecasts for the growth of the high-definition television market through 2012, and the report contains one interesting tidbit: in 2008, shipments of high-definition televisions have already overtaken shi...
Samsung Blu-ray Units Add Netflix, Pandora- Digital Trends News - October 23, 2008
- Samsung has announced partnerships with Netflix and Pandora that adds streaming media capabilities to its BD-P2500 and BD-P2550 Blu-ray players. The agreements enable owners of the Blu-ray players and broadband Internet connections to stream movies d...