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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.
Samsung Announces New Plasma, LCD TVs
Digital Trends News - July 23, 2008
Electronics giant Samsung has officially announced three new plasma high-definition televisions, along with six new LCD TV models, including the second generation of their LED-backlit LCD televisions. Although details on the sets have been circulatin...
Net TV Testers Wanted
Digital Trends News - July 22, 2008
The P2P Next Project is investigating what might prove to be the future of television. It’s testing software, the SwarmPlayer, that can stream programs across the Net by using BitTorrent technology, and the EU is putting millions of dollars int...
Report: TiVo, Amazon team up on sales pitches
CNET News - July 22, 2008
Partnership aims to make it easier for consumers to purchase products they see advertised and promoted on television commercials and talk shows, The New York Times reports.
Ruiz Steps Down as AMD CEO
Digital Trends News - July 18, 2008
Struggling chipmaker AMD has reported an operating loss of $1.189 billion for the second quarter of 2008, as the company formally announces it plans to divest itself of its handheld and digital television product businesses which it acquired with gra...

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