The TV remains the preferred media for TV shows and video for nearly 60% of U.S. consumers, “but they also want their smart phones and tablets by their side so they can be online and multitask, according to the KPMG International 2013 Digital Debate report,...
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Verizon and Samsung announced an expansion of the FiOS TV line-up on the Samsung Smart Hub platform, which powers Samsung’s smart TVs and Blu-ray players. Verizon customers who subscribe to both FiOS TV and FiOS Internet can now access 75 channels of TV and gain...
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Awareness and use of TV Everywhere (TVE) cross-device and cross-platform Internet capabilities is higher for free TV Everywhere capabilities from television networks than it is for similar capabilities built into most pay-TV subscription packages, according to a survey of pay TV households from research firm...
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Verizon introduced their latest FiOS TV channel line-up, FiOS Select HD, this week. The most notable feature of this line-up is sports programming, or actually, the lack of any sports programming. FiOS Select HD offers 140+ channels, with 30+ in HD (final count depends on...
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Streaming Internet services are increasingly being seen as viable substitutes for cable and satellite TV and video services, just as mobile computing devices, such as tablets, are standing in for laptop personal computers, according to results of a new survey conducted by Harris Interactive for ...
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SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–(NASDAQ: AMZN) – Amazon today announced the launch of the Amazon Instant Video app on Nintendo’s Wii console, providing customers with access to the Amazon Instant Video library of more than 145,000 movies and TV episodes. The app is already available on Nintendo’s new...
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At CES 2013, Verizon Communications showed off a variety of updates for its FiOS TV service, as well as a demonstration of the forthcoming Redbox Instant service from the Verizon-Coinstar joint venture. Verizon is championing a theme it calls the ‘Borderless Lifestyle’, to bring video...
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It’s generally accepted that the shelf life, and ad value, of live, broadcast TV programming is short. Recent Nielsen research aimed to quantify what the television industry calls “Beyond 7,” defined as viewing of television programming eight days or more after the programming initially was...
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DALLAS and SAN JOSE, CA – Jan 15, 2013 — As organizations of all types look to accelerate the adoption of video-based communications and video-enabled business processes, AT&T* and Polycom, Inc., (Nasdaq: PLCM) announced today a strategic agreement to personalize, mobilize and virtualize video meetings....
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As it does each year, the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show opened with a bang. Dozens of high profile press conferences take place the day before the trade show opens. Cisco held an event on Monday evening, which included brief speeches by Cisco CEO John...
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DALLAS, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — AT&T is offering U-verse® TV customers a new way to watch movies across screens with AT&T U-verse Screen Pack. Available for $5 a month, U-verse TV Screen Pack customers get unlimited, instant playback of an extensive library of movies...
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We are a connected nation. According to a research report from the NPD Group, the U.S. now has more connected devices, at 425 million, than people, which number about 311 million. NPD counts connected devices as PCs/laptops, smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and Blu-ray players, video...
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