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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…