Strike.tv, a Web video site featuring programming created by TV and film writers during the Writers Guild of America strike earlier this year, is expected to launch this summer with original short-form content from scribes behind “The Office” and “Die…
Yahoo is in talks with Time Warner Inc. for a possible merger, the Wall Street Journal says, citing sources close to the situation. Yahoo recently rejected an offer from Microsoft to purchase the Internet company for $47.5 billion, and its…
Sony, which trailed Samsung among worldwide liquid-crystal display television set makers in the first quarter, said last week that it expects to be the market leader in high-definition TVs by 2011. Also by then, Sony expects to return its LCD…
It took about six months, but DirecTV finally returned Comcast’s salvo. The biggest U.S. satellite television service, which has long touted its superiority in high-definition linear channels over cable companies, this week started offering its on-demand service. The move is…
The player: Scott Bahneman, co-founder and chief executive officer of MusicGiants. The play: Mr. Bahneman, who co-founded high-definition music distributor MusicGiants in 2004, branched out into HD movie distribution through its VideoGiants service in January by reaching a deal with…
Sharp, Sony Make the Best Blu-ray Players, Magazine Says Sharp and Sony make the best Blu-ray players, PCWorld reports. Sharp’s BD-HP20U had the best detail, color quality and brightness of the players that were tested, while Sony’s PlayStation 3 had…
HD programming picks for July 3-9: “Ratatouille,” “Jam Bands, “Fast Food Nation” “Ratatouille” (Starz). Fri., July 4, 7:05 p.m. Disney/Pixar’s animated tale about a French rat who goes to Paris to follow his cooking idol features the voices of Brian…
Brave New Foundation will premiere “In Their Boots,” an Internet series about soldiers who served in Iraq, Mobilized TV reports. The series premieres today at 4 p.m. PT, with a new episode airing live every Wednesday at the same time,…
Univision Online and the Home Depot will launch Web show “Handyman al Rescate” (Handyman to the Rescue), MediaWeek reports. The Web series, which will be accessible through a microsite on Univision.com, will feature six webisodes with how-to information on remodeling…
Traditional search engines like Google and Yahoo are poised to dominate the video search business because almost one-third of traffic to online video sites originates from search engines, Daisy Whitney reports in this week’s edition of the “New Media Minute.”…