Video technology company Clearleap has secured $3.3 million in venture debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank. The funds will go toward enhancing development of infrastructure and business management products for television service providers and media content owners. Clearleap, whose platform…
Movie studios and a USC-based nonprofit group are working on a standard for delivering digital content to broadcasters, the Hollywood Reporter says. The new standard, in addition to the Digital Cinema Initiative specifications already discussed by studios, is referred to…
Cable network Current has partnered with Digg and Twitter to power its Election Night coverage, the programmer announced today. Starting at 7 p.m. EDT on Nov. 4, Current will cover the election results on-air and online with live streaming headlines…
Number of Blu-ray Releases Growing The number of Blu-ray titles released or scheduled to be released has surpassed 1,000, the Hollywood Reporter says. There are 841 Blu-ray titles on the market currently, with 185 being prepared for sale. The latest…
HD programming picks for Oct. 30-Nov. 5: Election coverage, “30 Rock,” “The Game Plan” Election 2008 (Various). Tues., Nov. 4. The trials and tribulations of the campaign trail lead to the first Tuesday in November, and various networks will be…
Joining the rest of the 24-hour news pack, MSNBC is making the leap to full 1080i high definition starting next spring, the network announced this week. “As viewers are making the transition to HD more and more every day, we’re…
Netflix is making the jump to high definition with the soft launch of streaming HD titles on the Xbox 360. On Nov. 19, Microsoft will roll out the Xbox Experience, an update to the Xbox 360’s control panel that also…
MTV is expected to announce Thursday that it is developing a Beatles version of its hit video game Rock Band, the New York Post says. The company issued a media advisory late Wednesday that pitched an “exclusive agreement to develop…
Video search companies are looking for ways other than metadata to help users find the clips they’re looking for, the Wall Street Journal reports. Video Surf is using technology that searches the video content using “computer vision algorithms,” Google’s YouTube…
DVD rental and streaming service Netflix and TiVo have struck a partnership that will bring Netflix’s movie-streaming component to TiVo’s set-top boxes, the Wall Street Journal reports. The two companies are expected to begin testing the service Thursday and it…