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Webber Joins Turner’s NBA Playoffs Team

Five-time NBA All-Star Chris Webber will join Turner Sports’ analysis team on its TNT, NBA.com and NBA TV properties. Mr. Webber will make regular appearances on Turner’s television and digital platforms through the remainder of the network’s NBA Playoffs coverage,…

HD Camcorders: From Niche to Norm

This year’s graduates have all the more reason to recoil in horror from their camcorder-toting parents, as a lot more of the cap-and-gown crowd will have their every move filmed in HD. While DVD analysts have predicted that high-definition players…

Hulu’s Eric Feng: Early Results

The player: Eric Feng, chief technology officer at Hulu The play: Feng was the first person hired by Hulu Chief Executive Officer Jason Kilar, and he helped the NBC Universal-News Corp. joint venture go from last year’s inception to last…

This Week in HD: Shaq and Steve, Brad and Ed, Ethan and Joel

HD programming picks for April 24-30: “Spurs vs. Suns,” “Fight Club,” “Blood Simple” San Antonio Spurs vs. Phoenix Suns (ESPN). Friday, April 25, 7:30 p.m. ET. The defending champion Spurs take on Steve Nash and the Suns in Game 3…

Blu-ray Won Battle, But Still Has to Win Over Consumers, Analyst Says

Consumer ambivalence may be the biggest challenge facing the high-definition DVD player market, according to a new report from ABI Research. Although Sony’s Blu-ray format has emerged as the victor in HD video technology race, ABI analysts said many people…

Rounding Up HD News: PlayStation to Get Online Service, ‘ET’ Goes HD

Sony Looks to Have PS3 Online Video Service by Summer Sony, whose PlayStation 3 helped the company’s Blu-ray win the next-generation DVD player format war, will launch an online video service for the game console as early as this summer,…

CBS Sells ‘Criminal Minds’ to A&E, Ion

CBS Television Distribution sold the cable rights to the series “Criminal Minds” to A&E Networks and the broadcast rights to Ion Television. A&E will begin showing episodes from the series’ first three seasons once weekly in May. It will begin…

Senate Panel Rebukes FCC’s Martin

A Senate committee took the first step toward overturning the Federal Communications Commission’s latest rewrite of media-ownership rules that let newspapers and broadcasters in the same market buy each other. The Senate Commerce Committee on a voice vote approved a…

History, Burnett to Search for Livingstone

Producer Mark Burnett (“Survivor”) will retrace newsman Henry Morton Stanley’s journey to find Dr. David Livingstone in Africa in a new series for History. In “Expedition: Stanley and Livingstone,” five expert explorers will make their way using only a compass,…

SAG, Producers Extend Contract Talks; AFTRA Postpones Its Start Date

The Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers have extended their collective bargaining talks by three days, until May 2, the two groups said today in a joint statement. SAG’s contract is set to expire…