With Warner Bros.’ announcement last week that it would release high-definition DVDs exclusively in the Blu-ray format starting later this year, Sony has likely won the battle over Toshiba’s HD DVD format. The next question is whether the DVD format…
Apple May Add Blu-ray Drives to Macs Apple may announce at the Macworld conference that it will add Blu-ray drives to its Macintosh computers, Fortune magazine’s Web site reported, citing Shaw Wu, an analyst at American Technology Research. Wu, citing…
HD programming picks for Jan. 10-16: “Blue Angels,” “Conan the Barbarian,” “American Gladiators” Blue Angels: A Year in the Life” (Discovery HD). Monday, Jan. 10-Sunday, Jan. 13, check for times. Off you go into the wild blue yonder to follow…
Internet video viewers scaled back their watching during the holiday break, according to the latest figures from Nielsen Online. Traffic dipped on leading video-sharing sites for the week ending Dec. 30, with many people away from their computers and on…
As part of its broader effort to boost viewership through Internet partnerships, Viacom unit MTV Networks will begin showing video clips of its programming on online video service Veoh Networks and publicly held Web video network GoFish, the companies said…
In the first keynote speech by a cable chief executive at the Consumer Electronics Show, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts announced Tuesday that the company is introducing an open technology platform this year that will allow any developer to create interactive…
Echostar struck a deal with interactive television technology firm BIAP that will let the satellite provider offer presidential election-related ITV content. Under the deal, Echostar has launched “Dish Decision 2008, a portal with political information on the national, state and…
On top of 3,600 hours of Summer Olympics coverage offered by NBC Universal, the studio announced that it was teaming up with MSN and Microsoft in a strategic partnership to form “NBCOlympics.com on MSN,” which will be powered by Microsoft’s…
Video search service Pixsy struck a deal with Maxim Digital, the family of Web sites targeting young men. Under the deal, Pixsy will power video and photo search for Maxim.com, Blender.com and Stuffmagazine.com. Pixsy is one of a handful of…
While Sony Corp. may have won the battle of the high-definition DVD players last week when Warner Bros. announced its support for Sony’s Blu-ray format, the war for HD movie delivery systems may still be looming, say some analysts. With…