Apparently, cord-cutting may be real after all, according to a new study released by The Diffusion Group.
Despite countless real-world examples showing that television doesn’t seem to be negatively affected by online VoD services, Diffusion’s new study apparently finds 32% of Netflix users plan to cut down on – or cut out entirely – …
Warner Bros. has signed what could be a historic deal to make its movies available to homes throughout China on Video on Demand… as long as it turns out to actually be legit.
Warner Bros. Entertainment has announced a partnership with YOU On Demand Media to provide China’s “first national Pay-Per-View and Video On Demand platform,” …
With Amazon and Google recently launching their own daily deals sites to compete with Groupon and LivingSocial, you might be forgiven for thinking that we’re living in a golden age of savings and reasonably priced offerings. A new study had a message for those who might feel that way: Enjoy it while you can, because it’s not likely to …
Google’s doing it, Amazon’s doing it, Apple will be doing it very soon now. Everyone’s putting their music in the cloud. Clouds are, it would seem, where it’s at. Indeed clouds are so happening that perhaps you might prefer to roll your own rather than use someone else’s.
Here’s one way of doing that.
Milwaukee developer John Mills …
The entertainment industry’s been pretty lethargic about bringing big-screen, high-definition video calling to living rooms en masse. It’s been left to video game hardware manufacturers via set-top boxes to do the job, be they video chats with up to six people using Sony’s PlayStation 3, or Video Kinect using Microsoft’s motion-sensing …
Expect to see Amazon offering a Kindle for less than $100 by the end of the year. In a research note offered by Citigroup, analyst Mark Mahaney predicted that Amazon’s e-reader is so successful that the company will be able to lower the price by the end of the year.
Noting that “eBooks have clearly reached critical mass” for Amazon, …
Since Apple announced its new iTunes Match service on Monday, many have been wondering what will be the legal status of the songs they “upgrade” using the service. Here are some answers.
Q: How does it work?
A: For $24.99 a year, Apple will scan your music collection, note which songs you have, and upgrade each to a high quality …
The unlikely winner in the battle between DVDs and Video On Demand? According to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, the answer is movie theaters – and it’s all because they remain the most reliable source of income for movie studios.
Talking at this weekend’s “Produced By Conference,” an annual conference put on by the Producer’s Guild of …
Earlier this week, it was Google that was launching a local daily deals program, and now Amazon is getting in on the discounted action with the announcement of AmazonLocal’s launch in Boise, Idaho.
Like Google Offers and other similar sites, AmazonLocal will offer discounts on local products, services and experiences through a daily …
YouTube wants you to start using other people’s content – well, within reason. The Google-owned video site launched a new feature yesterday that gives users access to more than 10,000 videos under Creative Commons license for remixing or editing in YouTube’s editor, which will automatically cite and source the original.
The site’s …
Interesting. See that thing up there? That’s Roku. It’s a nice, inexpensive, internet-connected box that you hook up to your TV. Once it’s set up, you can use it to stream movies and TV shows from the likes of Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Amazon, plus music and photos from Pandora and Flickr, respectively.
But the company has just …
The Motion Picture Association of America wants you to stop watching movies at home. Specifically, it wants you to stop watching movies streamed online from Zediva, the “place-shifting private performance” site that allows subscribers to rent physical DVDs that are played in one central location, with the playback streamed to your own …
