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Print's Best and Brightest Go to the Digital Side January 30, 2009 
Another week, another round of bad news for those who bring you the bad news. Some California newspapers tell their employees to take a week off -- without pay. A 24-hour news channel run by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune is signing off due to a lack of investors.
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The Plight of Advertisers in a Multichannel World January 09, 2009 
While television remains the most popular consumer device for viewing video content, it's fast falling before the march of alternatives, according to a report released Thursday by Deloitte. About half of U.S. consumers want the freedom to view their content on any platform they choose -- be it television, media center software, smartphone, or PC.
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LG to Show Off Netflix-Ready High-Def TVs at CES January 05, 2009 
Netflix is coming to a high-definition LG Electronics television near you. The two companies on Monday announced an extension of an existing partnership whereby LG will sell Internet-ready TVs capable of streaming content from a catalog of 12,000 Netflix movies. The service is already available on one of LG's Blu-ray disc players.
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E-Cinema, Part 3: Adding a New Dimension December 31, 2008 
Despite all the attention being paid to the creation of 3-D films, the immense catalog of existing 2-D movies ready for 3-D conversion provides a massive market ripe for exploitation. Techniques to convert existing 2-D images for 3-D presentation have existed throughout the entire history of 3-D, but few have been effective or even survived.
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E-Cinema, Part 2: Step Into the Projection Booth December 30, 2008 
3-D has been given a really big job -- coax audiences young and old alike away from their big screen home TVs, their PCs and their video games and back into movie theaters. On Dec. 4, 3ality Digital joined forces with Beverly Hills-based RealD and the National Football League to test a 3-D broadcast experience designed to immerse viewers in the game as never before.
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E-Cinema, Part 1: 3-D Hits Its Stride December 29, 2008 
Wanted: Movie theater projectionists with IT experience in network systems and client/server environments to operate digital cinema systems. Qualifications and requirements: systems analysis capabilities, a thorough working knowledge of e-business applications deployment, including implementation of a variety of IT systems in a computing and business environment.
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Small Screen Blues: Cutting Mobile Video Down to Size December 23, 2008 
The real estate crisis in this country is felt in the workplace. It's impacting our leisure time. It's affecting the way we look at everything. Actually ... make that how we look at everything that's in the video we watch on our smartphone screens. The 2.5 to 3.5-inch screen real estate on our iPhones, Storms, Dares and G1s is training a generation of users to consume their video on a very small scale.
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New York Gov Wants a Few Pennies for a Song December 17, 2008 
New York Gov. David Paterson has proposed a 4 percent tax on digital music downloads and other "digitally delivered entertainment services." The "iPod Tax," as it's become known, is just one of many new taxes the governor has proposed in an effort to close the state's multibillion-dollar budget gap.
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Elbowing Into the Set-Top Scene: Q&A With Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes November 28, 2008 
Blockbuster on Tuesday threw its hat into the increasingly crowded ring of set-top boxes with the announcement of a deal with hardware maker 2Wire. Blockbuster's system will bring video directly to viewers' televisions on demand via a broadband Internet connection. The move follows similar offerings from competitors.
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Blockbuster Pits a la Carte Menu Against Netflix's Buffet November 25, 2008 
Movie rental giant Blockbuster announced Tuesday it has teamed with hardware maker 2Wire to launch a content delivery service on the 2Wire MediaPoint digital media player. The set-top box will provide users with direct access to Blockbuster OnDemand content via their televisions. The small set-top box works with either WiFi or a wired broadband connection.
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Rear-View Mirror: 5 Bold, Brilliant Tech Gambits, Part 1 November 24, 2008 
It's been said that the meek shall inherit the Earth, but in the cutthroat world of technology, only the bold survive. Some of the biggest names in the high-tech and media sectors launched initiatives in the last year that have changed the landscape -- perhaps permanently.
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YouTube's Identity Crisis, Circuit City's Cash Crisis: A Week to Forget November 14, 2008 
Now you can get your fix of "Bulletproof Monk" and "American Gladiators" -- all without leaving the comfort of YouTube. Yes, the king of user-generated, short-form video is now embracing the other kind: studio-generated, feature-length films. Yes, this is the same YouTube that said long-form video was anathema to its business model. But I guess when the big MGM lion comes roaring, you make an exception.
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YouTube Bags a Lion November 10, 2008 
All those singing cats and clumsy kittens you currently see on YouTube will soon be getting some more feline company at the online video Web site: Leo, the roaring, toothy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion. The movie studio announced Monday that it would allow a very limited selection of full-length movies and TV shows from its library, along with one- to two-minute clips from MGM films.
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The Netflix Stream's New Tributary: TiVo October 30, 2008 
Netflix and TiVo announced Thursday the roll out of a streaming video service for subscribers. Set for availability in early December, the service appears to be the culmination of a deal the two companies originally announced in 2004. The TiVo-Netflix venture is the latest in a series of similar partnerships Netflix has announced this year.
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Netflix Brings Xbox Streaming Deal Into Higher Definition October 29, 2008 
Netflix subscribers who also happen to own an Xbox 360 -- and have an Xbox Live membership -- learned last summer they'd be able to access streaming video via the gaming console, but what they didn't know until recently is that some of those titles will be available in high definition. Users of the Microsoft's gaming machine will see the feature when the console's "New Xbox Experience" launches Nov. 19.
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Netflix Routes Stream to Samsung Blu-ray Players October 23, 2008 
Netflix and Samsung announced a partnership Thursday that will bring the video rental service's streaming movies to the hardware maker's Web-connect Blu-ray disc players. Netflix subscribers can receive Blu-ray and DVD discs by mail with the added option of streaming movies and TV shows instantly from the company's online library.
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