More and more shows are available on streaming video sites, but the quality of the offerings can be hit-or-miss, says USA Today. Alongside classics such as “Hill Street Blues” are a number of shows that were canceled and aren’t any…
The water the home-entertainment industry is treading is getting Blu-er. That’s the news that came out of an Entertainment Merchants Association report this week about U.S. consumer spending on DVDs. Studios celebrating Sony’s Blu-ray victory in the high-definition DVD format…
The player: Charles Piper, president and chief operating officer of DVDPlay. The play: Mr. Piper, a veteran of the supermarket industry, joined the No. 3 U.S. movie-rental kiosk operator earlier this month, just in time for the closely held company…
Call it a story of green glass and high tides. The continuing swell of demand for high-definition television sets has been a pleasant surprise for companies that make components of liquid-crystal display TVs. None other than Corning, the largest maker…
More Than 1 Mil 3-D HDTVs Will Be Sold in U.S. by Year End More than 1 million 3-D high-definition television sets will have been sold in the U.S. by the end of the year, with most coming from Mitsubishi…
HD programming picks for June 26-July 2: “Midnight Cowboy,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Willie Nelson Live at Billy Bob’s” “Midnight Cowboy” (MGM HD). Fri., June 27, 9 p.m. ET. Oscar’s best picture of 1969 features Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman in the…
Social networking site MySpace.com is partnering with NBC News and MSNBC.com to launch a contest to find two citizen journalists to cover the upcoming presidential conventions. Dubbed Decision ’08 Convention, the contest lets MySpace users 18 and older submit short…
Online video distribution shop 60Frames has inked a deal with comic book publisher Oni Press to create both a Web series and digest-sized comics. The Web series, due to launch in 2009, will be based on upcoming and library titles…
Patrick Pichette will take over as Google’s senior VP and chief financial officer on Aug. 12, Valleywag reports. He was formerly the president of operations for global communications company Bell Canada, the Web site notes. —Vlada Gelman
Veoh Networks let go of three employees yesterday, but the company said those layoffs occur against a backdrop in which the world’s 16th-biggest video-sharing site has landed new partners and funding in recent weeks. The layoffs were for three “junior…