CBS plans to simulcast its coverage of 11 Southeastern Conference college basketball games on CBSSports.com this year, starting with Saturday’s Indiana-Kentucky grudge match, USA Today says. The site had SEC football games online, and tens of thousands of users watched,…
The National Basketball Association, Turner Sports and Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. are teaming up to provide coverage of the NBA All-Star Weekend in live 3-D HD in 80 theaters in 35 states. Expected to be projected on up to 160…
Netflix continues to roll onto media platforms in high definition as the movie rental giant makes HD streaming available via TiVo DVRs, the companies announced Monday. Netflix and TiVo subscribers using a TiVo Series3, TiVo HD or TiVo HD XL…
Blu-ray Player Sales Triple During Black Friday Week Sales of stand-alone Blu-ray players tripled during the week of Black Friday from the previous week, Video Business reports. Machines dropped below $200 during that week to spur post-Thanksgiving sales. Nearly one…
HD programming picks for Dec. 11-17: “Heroes,” “Spider-Man 3” and “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” “Heroes” (NBC) Mon., Dec. 15, 9 p.m.: The third volume of “Heroes” comes to a close Monday, as the Petrelli brothers face off while Ando, Matt and…
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes told an investment conference that the spinoff of Time Warner Cable is on track despite the credit market crunch, Dow Jones reports. Time Warner is supposed to get a $9 billion dividend when the transaction…
Some people who have posted video on YouTube are making six-figure incomes from advertising, the New York Times reports. While a few people are making enough for a full time living, YouTube declined to say how much the average individual…
Several films are no longer available for purchase or rental on Apple’s iTunes or Netflix because of licensing requirements and competition with TV, CNET reports. Online and digital retailers are being treated differently than other physical retailers and rental stores…
Web video service Brightcove has let go 25 of its 172 employees, amounting to 15% of its workforce, MediaPost reports. The company said the cuts will be throughout its departments with the hopes of reorganizing around “key strategic priorities,” according…
Hulu.com received 24 million unique visits from the U.S. during the month of October, about double from the month before, Multichannel News reports, citing new comScore numbers. Having only launched in March of this year, the NBC Universal-News Corp. site…