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Tag Archives: TV
ComScore Video Rankings: YouTube Usage Spiked 72 Percent Over 2010
As it seeks to launch nearly 100 new channels featuring professionally produced video, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) has a key advantage over original video competitiors like Hulu and Yahoo: millions more viewers can see its promos.
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Netflix Has Launched In UK, Price War With Amazon’s Lovefilm
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) executives launched the service in the UK and Ireland on Monday morning with a £5.99 ($7.79) monthly pricepoint for unlimited online movie and TV subscription streaming – £1 more than Lovefilm’s equivalent offering.
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BSkyB Buys Stake In Social TV Start-Up Zeebox For $15+ Million
News Corp-controlled pay-TV firm BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is buying itself a foothold in the looming social TV field by acquiring 10 percent of the startup Zeebox for a sum that is “double-digit millions” in both pounds and dollars.
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What To Expect At CES: Tablets, TVs, And Transition
The biggest spectacle in the tech industry kicks off Sunday evening, when an estimated 150,000 people will flood into Las Vegas not to place a wager on Monday night’s national championship game between LSU and Alabama (I’m taking LSU +1) but to gear up for the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show. Next week’s show will set expectations for 2012: can anyone catch the iPad? Are Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) capable of providing the third leg of the mobile operating system stool? And are we finally ready to embrace Internet TVs en masse? Here’s a look what we expect will be the major themes of the week:
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The New Laws Of TV Upgrading
I’m fascinated by a recent Ryan Lawler post at GigaOm, which argues that longstanding beliefs about how often people get a new TV have been upended in recent years. Apparently, conventional wisdom among TV manufacturers was that people got a new set every seven or eight years.
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Report: Sony’s Hirai Promoted To President, Stringer Still Chairman And CEO
In a move that further sets up Kazuo Hirai as the heir apparent at Sony (NYSE: SNE), the company has promoted him to president, taking that title away from Howard Stringer but keeping Stringer in place as CEO and chairman of the board, according to a report.
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Lovefilm Adding More ITV, BBC Worldwide Archive TV
Amazon’s Lovefilm is extending existing deals with ITV (LSE: ITV) and BBC Worldwide to gain a larger catalogue of their shows for online streaming, as it begins to defend against Netflix’s imminent UK arrival.
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New Google TV Devices Finally On The Way
The Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV reset that started last fall with software updates for existing Sony (NYSE: SNE) hardware heads into the next phase with the unveiling of the first new devices and TVs in more than a year at CES.
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Netflix Faces Higher Prices For HBO, Agrees To Doubled DVD Delays From WB
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is facing changes to its DVD business with two Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) programmers after months of CEO back-and-forth about the competition perceived and real between the subscription service and HBO.
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News Corp’s Shine Buying Web Video Producer ChannelFlip
News Corp.‘s newly-owned Shine Group is acquiring ChannelFlip, an independent online TV and video producer that has successfully developed brand-funded short-form formats.
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