- Amazon Extends Video On Demand Reach
- Digital Trends News - September 4, 2008
- Amazon.com has extended the reach of its online Video On Demand offering, enabling streaming access to thousands of movies and television programs via Mac and PC Web browser, as well as purchases and rentals through Sony's Bravia Internet Video Link ...
- Samsung Launches U.S. Recycling Program
- Digital Trends News - September 3, 2008
- Another consumer electronics manufacturer is getting on the e-waste bandwagon: this time it's South Korean giant Samsung, which has just announced Samsung Recycling Direct, a program that will enable consumers in all 50 states to recycle Samsung-bran...
- TiVo and DirecTV Re-Team For New DVR
- Digital Trends News - September 3, 2008
- Satellite television provider DirecTV and DVR pioneer TiVo used to have a very cozy relationship. The companies got together back in 2000, and shortly DirecTV was moving the majority of TiVo DVR devices and creating oodles of TiVo subscriptions. Howe...
- Toshiba Projector Does Close Captioning
- Digital Trends News - September 2, 2008
- One of the problems with showing television or DVD programming to a group using a projection system—particularly in business situations—is that close captioning information included with video programming is usually entirely lost. Sometim...
- Hitachi Faces Dallas Federal Lawsuit Over HD Television Defects
- Press Releases - August 29, 2008
- Broadcom Buys AMD's DTV Biz for $192.8 Mln
- Digital Trends News - August 25, 2008
- After writing down substantial sums on its $5.4 billion purchase of ATI back in 2006, AMD is beginning to divest itself of some of the assets of that sale, announcing today that it has struck a deal with Broadcom to buy all AMD's digital television b...
- Bebo appoints exec to handle original content
- CNET News - August 21, 2008
- Kelly Brett, a London-based television producer, has already been working on Bebo-commissioned video content for the past year.
- Intel, Yahoo to Build Internet into HDTVs
- Digital Trends News - August 21, 2008
- At this week's Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Yahoo and Intel announced a new initiative aimed at building support for Web-enabled channels directly into high-definition televisions, so Internet-based content (and, no doubt, advertising) can...
- TV Remains Top News Source
- Digital Trends News - August 18, 2008
- A new report from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press finds that television is still Americans' leading source of news and information, but an increasing number of Americans are turning to online news sources, particularly among adve...
- Sharp Aquos Net TVs Get Web-Delivered Games
- Digital Trends News - August 7, 2008
- Owners of Sharp’s new Aquos Net televisions with built-in Web functionality can stop debating which console to buy… and just start playing games playing through their TVs. On Thursday, Accedo broadband launched Funspot for Aquos Net tele...
- Time Warner to Split AOL in Two
- Digital Trends News - August 6, 2008
- In conjunction with releasing its financial results for its second fiscal quarter of 2008, Corporate giant Time Warner has said it plans to split AOL's Internet and advertising businesses, in a move that would make it easier for Time Warner to sell e...
- Sharp Intros Entry-Level SB Aquos LCD TVs
- Digital Trends News - August 6, 2008
- LCD televisions have been on the market for a while now, but the prices for big-screen displays are still high enough to put off many consumers—even with the U.S. digital television transition looming on the horizon. With that in mind, electron...
- News Corp. earnings jump 27 percent
- CNET News - August 5, 2008
- Media giant's earnings beat analyst expectations on the strength of its television and film businesses.
- LG Announces Netflix-savvy Blu-ray Player
- Digital Trends News - July 31, 2008
- LG Electronics has announced the first Blu-ray disc player that will also have the capability to stream on-demand video content from video rental service Netflix via a customer's home broadband Internet connection. The LG BD300 Network Blu-ray Disc P...
- Watching the watchers: TiVo tracks ad viewing
- CNET News - July 30, 2008
- Ad agency Starcom teams with TiVo to be the first to use its Nielsen ratings-like data to track which television shows and ads people fast-forward through, watch, and time-shift.
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