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Content Monetizing Options Abound at Mip
The annual international content market Mip TV has been the place for buyers and sellers to show their wares and make licensing deals. Over the past few years, Mip’s organizers have reacted to the evolving distribution landscape by including an…
What About the Little Guys?
If business wasn’t already tough for the independent Web video creators, consider these latest numbers from Nielsen Online. In the month of February, online consumers watched 6.3 billion total streams of video on the Internet, according to Nielsen Online. Not…
MySpace Partners With Record Labels
Social-networking Web site MySpace will partner with Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony BMG on a music site that will include both free streaming and digital-download sales, the Wall Street Journal reports. MySpace will spend as much as…
iTunes Beats Wal-Mart as Top Retailer
iTunes has displaced Wal-Mart as the top music retailer in the U.S., according to Digital Media Wire. The Apple service outsold Amazon.com and Best Buy in 2007 to take second place, and is now in first with more than 4…
Price Matters Most to Flat-Screen Buyers
For flat-panel television buyers, size matters, but price matters more. Price was the most important factor among recent flat-screen TV buyers, and it played a bigger role among TV buyers than among consumers of other consumer electronics products such as…
Many HDTV Owners Won’t Foot Subscription Bill
Last year, almost 30 million North American consumers ponied up the $1,000 or more for a new high-definition television set. But that extra $10 a month for the HD subscription service? Not so fast. While about two in five U.S….
Programming Pioneer: HBO’s Bob Zitter
The player: Bob Zitter, chief technology officer at HBO The play: Mr. Zitter was largely responsible for HBO being the first cable network to broadcast in high definition. That was in 1999, the same year CBS started HD broadcasts. More…
Rounding Up HD News: AT&T Adds Inventory, Mitsubishi Goes Yard
AT&T’s U-verse fiber-optic television service this week added three HBO channels, pushing its total high-definition linear channel inventory to more than 40. Meanwhile, Verizon’s FiOS service will expand its HD video-on-demand service to 14 states, up from four, within the…