The value of traditional pay-TV service like cable, satellite, and IPTV appears to be waning in the US, according to the Diffusion Group.
EchoStar licences Cryptography Research
Cryptography Research, a division of Rambus, has announced a license agreement with EchoStar Technologies, to adopt the Cryptography Research CryptoFirewall security core for use with EchoStar set-top box technologies to […]
TiVo partners with Flingo
Flingo, a publisher of Smart TV apps, has announced that it has integrated Flingo’s LaunchPad video platform into TiVo Premiere set-top boxes, bringing over 70 streaming on demand video applications […]
75% of US households have HDTV
75% of households in the US have at least one HDTV set, up from 23% five years ago. Few watch 3D TV.
Elemental one of the Top 25 most promising companies
Elemental Technologies has been placed among the 25 most promising privately held companies on the Forbes magazine annual ranking.
Twitter acquires Bluefin Labs for social TV
Twitter has acquired Bluefin Labs, a social TV analytics company that provides data products to brand advertisers, agencies, and TV networks.
US viewers opt for free TV streaming
Traditional pay TV operators and broadcast networks still dominate the consumer television landscape, but US viewers start to turn to new options, from subscription video on demand (SVOD), to electronic […]
Tablet vewing expected to rise
Tablet TV and video viewing is expected to rise to 58 billion hours per year by 2017, according to a new report released by TDG. In five years, annual tablet […]
NHK to present 8K Video at NAB 2013
Japanese public broadcaster NHK will present the latest iteration of its Super Hi-Vision system at the 2013 NAB Show.
Netflix grows to over 33m subscribers
Netflix has beaten everyone’s expectations by announcing it added nearly 10 million global streaming members in 2012, bringing the total to over 33 million global streaming members worldwide.