Joan and Melissa Rivers are taking their Oscar act online. The mother-and-daughter red-carpet team will be dishing and dissing on Academy Award fashions the day after the ceremony on AOL’s StyleList.com. They’d previously been headliners of Oscar arrivals shows on…
Discounts, anyone? Despite Toshiba’s announcement this week that it would discontinue its HD DVD next-generation player next month, most large U.S. retailers maintained their prices for the company’s entry-level players, indicating that the switch to Sony’s competing Blu-ray format may…
The popularity of high-definition television sets helped sales of liquid crystal display TVs leapfrog those of personal computers among U.S. consumer technology products last year. Also last year, LCDs overtook worldwide sales of more traditional cathode ray tube TVs for…
HD Production Too Costly for Many Reality Shows, Producers Say With high-definition cameras costing as much as $120,000 each, shooting in high definition remains too expensive for many reality shows, USA Today reports, citing show producers including Jonathan Littman of…
HD programming picks for Feb. 21-27 “Pollock” (HDNet). Saturday, Feb. 23, 6 p.m. Ed Harris was Oscar-nominated for his portrayal of Jackson Pollock, while Marcia Gay Harden, playing his wife, took home the supporting actress Oscar. Midcentury abstract expressionism will…
The Directors Guild of America on Wednesday ratified a contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, five weeks after the two sides reached a tentative accord. The guild “overwhelmingly voted to ratify” the contract, DGA President Michael…
Google plans to extend the reach of its nascent Video AdSense network, which matches online video content with relevant ads, to several high-profile partner sites starting today, the company said in a blog post. The AdSense for Video beta project,…
Thanks to their digital video recorders, people are spending more time watching television. The newest data released last week by the Nielsen Co. didn’t talk about whether those TV-lovin’, DVR-usin’ viewers were watching the commercials that pay the bills for…
Is your market ready for digital? The Nielsen Co. recently released figures showing there are 13 million U.S. households with television sets that can receive only the analog broadcasts that are scheduled to cease after Feb. 17, 2009. Another 6…
Music videos make up a large percentage of the most popular viral videos. YouTube’s own roster of the most-viewed videos of all time is a “who’s who” of contemporary pop and rock artists, including Avril Lavigne, My Chemical Romance and…