More news this week that positions smart TVs as essential players in the over-the-top and multiscreen marketplace, as TDG released its report—The In-Home CE and Home Network Ecosystem – 2013—contending that one-quarter of U.S. households now own at least one smart TVs, up from just half of that in 2011. That news shouldn’t be too […]
Pyramid Research is out with a report that highlights mobile revenue growth in emerging markets regardless of what the rest of the global economy look like, forecasting that with economic growth projected to quintuple in those markets compared to developed markets, mobile will be the easiest tagalong. In its “Top Trends in the Global Communications†[…]
With a little more space and some extra time, this would be a great opportunity to launch into a discussion about the Boston Tea Party, how the Sons of Liberty action against British tax policy helped launch the American Revolution, and how Aereo’s announcement today that it would be expanding its service into the Boston […]
Hulu’s original content play has become more animated, as it announced a new, 13-week series starring Eva Longora—she of “Desperate Housewives†fame—as a record exec who moves to suburbia to give motherhood a try. The flip? It’s a cartoon, and Longora will provide the voice for Rudi Wilson in “Mother Up!†The show debuts this […]
It seemed as if only months ago Google Fiber was being classed as “an experiment†by many of the folks who supposedly know about this space. The rollout in Kansas City was labeled as everything from a ploy by Google to put pressure on other broadband providers to pony up and improve their speed and […]
Netflix has gotten a big boost from Richard Greenfield, an analyst at BTIG Research, who has stamped a BUY rating on the content aggregator and reset its price target to $250… a big journey from its current range, but still shy of the $300 heights it hit before its bubble burst. Why now? Greenfield says […]
You gotta love Liberty Media chief John Malone, one of the original cable cowboys who took the then-fledgling technology to the masses in the U.S. and around the world. Malone has a bee in his bonnet (well, several, actually, but more on that later): The rising costs of sports programming, which, he told CNBC, has […]
Birds do it, bees do it… wait, wait, wait, wrong song. Intel wants to do it, Microsoft and Google could do it, Verizon is kinda doing it, and now, AT&T? No, not falling in love, but launching a streaming video service. Could it be the mythical Virtual MSO? AT&T, according to Variety, last month sent […]
Call it baby steps, but they’re big baby steps nonetheless. Cablevision has updated its Optimum for iPad app to allow users access to live liner content–albeit a very limited menu of content at the moment—outside their home WiFi network. The Long Island-based company said users of the app will be able to access news, weather […]
Have you got “the best idea ever†for a streaming media service? You might just be nearing the catbird seat. (Psst! Intel, Google Fiber listen up!) A poll from Harris Interactive suggests that nearly 40% of U.S. adults in that prime 18-34 age group would be willing to leave their pay-TV service provider for a […]
I’m still recovering from “House of Cards,†“Mad Men†and “Walking Dead†marathons on Netflix, but I’m pretty sure that I’ll be ready to get back in the lounge chair for one more big event: Netflix has announced “Arrested Development,†all 15 episodes at once, is rolling out at 12:01 a.m., May 26, a Sunday […]
Just one more sign that the pay-TV model—as we know it—is in for more than a little upheaval: A new report says content owners–like HBO, Disney and Fox–will play an increasingly large role in the growth of the encoding and transcoding market as they look for ways to go directly to consumers with their products. […]
There’s a lot of nail biting going on in TV network boardroom this week after a pair of appeals court judges ruled that Aereo—the micro-antenna based startup backed by Barry Diller et al.—agreed with U.S. District Court Judge Alison Nathan’s decision earlier this year to continue allowing Aereo to stream live TV via its nascent […]
