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…
NBC Universal Sports & Olympics has promoted Wendy Bass to vice president of business affairs. In her new role she will negotiate TV rights agreements for several sporting events, including the PGA Tour, the Kentucky Derby and Wimbledon, in addition…
Timothy Olyphant will join the cast of FX’s “Damages” for its second season. During his seasonlong arc, Olyphant’s character will become entangled with Ellen (Rose Byrne) as she deals with recent personal loss and conflict with her boss, Patty Hewes…
Asian pop-culture network iaTV has added Cox Communications of Orange County and select Los Angeles-area Charter Communications distributors to its expanding list of carriers. Programming on the network, which targets young Asian-American viewers, includes originals “Pancrase: Legends of Mixed Martial…
In line with the recent trend of stunt-casting tabloid-fodder starlets, Nicole Richie will guest star in an upcoming episode of NBC’s “Chuck.” Ms. Richie, who starred alongside Paris Hilton in “The Simple Life,” will return to television as the high…