More than a billion streaming TV and video devices are now in use worldwide, according to streaming TV market share research from Strategy Analytics. Researchers track devices in 27 countries. With a 17% market share, Samsung is the leading streaming…
A proposed FCC set-top box order circulating within the commission would not apply to video service providers with fewer than 400,000 customers, but those providers could adopt the technology if they choose to, said FCC senior officials on a conference…
More than 8 in 10 consumers (83 percent) watch on-demand video (VOD), four percent more than did so in April 2015, according to digital content delivery platform provider Limelight Networks’ second semi-annual ¨The State of Online Video¨ report. The amount…
Two somewhat maverick enterprises are combining forces to address the over-the-top and TV Everywhere opportunity. The companies are Dish Network, which announced its “Best of Live TV” OTT offering for its Sling TV platform at the beginning of this year,…
NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — As Christmas nears and people line up to buy the latest tech gadgets and devices, FiOS customers are receiving an early gift: the immediate availability of the FiOS TV app for download on…
Microsoft has long touted the transformation of the gaming console from a gaming platform to an entertainment hub for the home. Their latest iteration, Xbox One, attempts to do just that – an “all-in-one” entertainment platform. One promise of this…
Worldwide shipments of connected game and entertainment consoles will be marginally higher than 2012’s approximately 33 million bundles, the first year-over-year growth since 2009, according to a new forecast from IDC. IDC analysts also predict that Sony PlayStation 4 (PS4)…
Cable MSO Time Warner Cable (TWC) is pushing the envelope for an eventual set-top-boxless future with the announcement that their TWC TV app will soon be available on the Xbox 360. The TWC TV app allows Xbox Live Gold members,…
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…
If you’re reading this blog, chances are that electronic games are not your focus – and they aren’t mine either. So you may have missed what could turn out to be the latest iteration of Microsoft TV unless you happened…
It’s E3 – the gaming industry’s annual tradeshow – week and news is flowing from Los Angeles on all of the latest developments concerning game consoles and the gaming industry as a whole. Microsoft was first up to highlight their…
Microsoft announced today that three additional content partnerships are now available for the Xbox 360, including HBO Go, Xfinity TV (Comcast), and MLB.TV. That adds to a growing list of video and music options for Microsoft’s home entertainment gateway, also…
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