Periodical sales on the iPad may not be growing, but not every tablet reader has that problem. Barnes & Noble’s NOOKnewsstand is reporting that it has already sold 150% more subscriptions since Christmas 2010 than in the previous twelve months combined, with 650,000 new subscriptions in the last month alone.
The Nooknewsstand offers …
YouTube has a new look that, the company hopes, will keep users happy while making the site more aimed at you – yes, you in particular. In a refreshingly hype-free blog post, the reason behind the changes was made clear:
After countless user studies and community surveys, one thing came in loud and clear: the homepage in its current
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Syfy’s Being Human may not be breaking new ground in terms of content – It’s a remake of a popular British series, already seen in the US on BBC America – but it is making technological moves no-one has seen before by becoming the first season-long “TV Tagging” series on the air.
Syfy is partnering with Shazam to allow viewers to use …
Amazon is fighting back against the growing dominance of Netflix by purchasing British movie rental company Lovefilm. Amazon has owned a significant stake in the company since 2008, when Lovefilm bought Amazon’s DVD service, but today’s news brings the company entirely under Amazon control.
Lovefilm, which offers DVD rental through …
To everyone worried that Netflix is spending too much money on bandwidth for Netflix Instant, calm down: Turns out that they spend 20 times more on postage for their DVDs.
It costs the company $1 to mail each DVD, compared with 5 cents per streamed movie (on average), but that price difference is one of the few reasons that studios …
Introducing the unexpected major new player in the ongoing television/VoD struggle: WealthTV. Why is this minor cable channel suddenly so important? Because WealthTV has become the first cable channel to become available through Roku, for just $2.99 per month.
This won’t be the first bold move from the channel; Wealth – which will …
Bored of Netflix constantly asking if you want to add things to your DVD queue instead of just knowing that, as a citizen of the 21st Century, you want to stream it instantly? Well, bore no more: Netflix is removing the “Add to DVD Queue” option from streaming devices.
According to director of product management Jamie Odell, the …
Once more trying to find ways to beat music piracy, two of Britain’s biggest record labels have announced a new initiative that makes so much sense, it’s almost doomed to failure: Songs will be made available digitally at the same time as they debut on television or radio.
Songs used to be made available to air weeks before release, …
Comcast’s merger with NBC Universal may be the focus of a lot of concern surrounding the cable company’s impact on Video on Demand, but it’s clearly not the only place people should be looking. The company has just invested in SnagFilms, an online video distribution site that’s previously specialized in making documentary films available …
Sure, almost every movie, television and home entertainment body in the world may be trying to tell you that 3D is the Next Big Thing right now, but one visionary company is already looking to the next Next Big Thing: The return of smell-o-vision.
San Jose-based Scent Sciences has already teamed with James Cameron for the Asia release …
It may not look like it, but the iPad might just end up becoming known as a DVR for reading. According to data collected by Read It Later – an app that allows users to save web pages for reading at their leisure, even without an internet connection – today’s readers are time-shifting their reading until later in the day, with iPad users …
It turns out your overprotective mother may have been right: Too much television may, in fact, kill you. A new international study is suggesting that anyone who spends more than four hours a day in front of any “screen-based entertainment” – be it television, videogames or the internet – is increasing their chance of heart attack or …
