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- 2009: Will It Be Better For Cable TV Than 2010 ... or 2011 ... or 2012?
- Satellite TV has been gaining subscribers, relentlessly this decade. Particularly DirecTV, which had 3.8 million subscribers at the end of June 1998 and counted 17.2 million, at the end of this June, according to this compilation by the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association of America. ...
- Tags: Cable Television, Broadcasting, Satellite, Brodsky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Minutes per viewer spent on network TV Web site
- Name Minutes per Viewer FOX Broadcasting 114.3 CBS Television 48.4 ABC.COM 45.5 NBC.com 34.6 Source: Nielsen by NB
- Tags: Network, CBS Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Why Grandma Sandy and Aunt Roz don't want an HDTV for Christmas
- Answer: Rectangular peg, Square Hole. With the prices of HDTV's plummeting, one would think that people would be rushing to buy new sets, particularly with the analog TV mass-extinction event coming in February. But the reality is, many people have no intention...
- Tags: Cabinet, HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Surveys show consumers love HDTVs, but show some confusion about HD programming
- Two recent research studies have found that the demand from U.S. consumers for HDTVs hasn't slackened despite the tough economy, but confusion remains about what you do with the TV once the set is purchased. You would presume that people are seeking out HDTVs in order to...
- Tags: HDTV, Survey, Blu-ray, Programming, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Top-selling products on Black Friday 2008
- PriceGrabber.com published the list of top products sold on Black Friday 2008. Nintendo Wii Console Ugg Australia ‘Classic Short’ Boot Sony BDP-S350 1080p Blu-Ray Disc Player Samsung LN52A650 52″ LCD TV Nintendo Wii Fit Panasonic TH-42PX80U 42″ Plasma TV Sennheiser HD 555 Headphones Canon EOS Rebel XSi Black SLR...
- Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Canon Inc., Nintendo Wii, Monitors & Displays, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Notebooks, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Notebooks & Tablets, AM
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Is on-demand slowly killing traditional broadcasting?
- I'm not a big TV watcher to be honest. In the UK, we have the "licence fee" which you need to pay the government before you even connect the telly to the wall. If you don't, you can bet your arse you'll have armed police storming the windows to your...
- Tags: On-demand, Broadcasting, Cloud Computing, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Americans watch 142 hours of TV a month
- Nielsen Media Research found that an average American watches 142 hours of TV in a month. Last season the typical home had a television on for 8:18 each day. Americans aged 65 and up watch more than 196 hours per month. by AM
- Tags: Hour, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, AM
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guide
- There's always a lot of madness surrounding consumerist pseudo-holiday Black Friday, but with the economy in a chokehold, this year's event has been hard to predict. Will there be good deals because of a tanking economy, or did companies sign off on their specials before the...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Home Theater, Savings, HDTV, Price, LCD, Laptop Computer, Approx, SKIP, Home Entertainment, GPS, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- Central European IPTV subscriptions to double in 2008
- Total IPTV subscriber connections in CEE are poised to grow more than 100% in 2008, from approximately 290,000 connections in 2007, according to IDC. by NB
- Tags: Connection, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- Apple's 2008 ad budget: $486M
- You've undoubtedly seen your fair share of Apple television commercials this year, most of them for the iPhone. Well, if you're wondering what it all costs, we now know the answer. BNet's Lindsay Blakely got the scoop by reading the fine print in Apple's 5 November 10-K...
- Tags: Advertisement, Apple Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- ... But Digital TV Transition Can Get Action
- The Bush Administration and Congress seem ready to bag it on the economic policy front. Witness the stock market reaction to its inaction this week on the auto industry and financial institutions' continued stresses. But they can take time to fix the hard-stop to analog TV...
- Tags: Stock, Digital Television, Stock Market, Investment, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Technology for Providing Educational Video on Demand on Campus
- Much hope has been placed in the past on Educational Television for improving educational standards and distance education. However, in many countries the impact of this technology has been limited. Some of the reasons are discussed along with possible technical solutions. One solution that has been developed at HP Labs...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., VoD, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Satellite TV, Video On Demand (VoD), E-learning, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-11-21
- On-Demand Video Consumption, three-Month Average Ending August 2008
- Type of Video Subscribers, 000 Share of audience Amateur Video Clips 1,346 37.9% Music Videos 1,224 34.5% Comedy Videos 1,179 33.2% Movie Trailers 1,074 30.2% Full TV/film 727 20.5% Local/National/World News 645 18.1% Entertainment/Celebrity News 629...
- Tags: On-demand, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- The silver bullet of preventive care
- The public debate will center on costs and mandates, but behind it will lie faith that Internet technology, if applied universally, can do what all those TV commercials telling you to watch your weight and stop smoking failed to do. Restore discipline. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- The UrbanSpoon effect
- The ultimate promotion that an iPhone app can receive is to be featured in an Apple TV commercial. Witness the new iPhone commercial featuring UrbanSpoon iTunes, a free application that allows uses GPS and the iPhone accelerometer to find a place to eat. It's a combination of Magic 8 Ball...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple TV, TVs, GPS, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Best Buy Black Friday ad leaks. Don't get too excited. get too excited.
- While Circuit City has pretty much crashed and burned, Best Buy has chugged merrily along. But the electronics retailing giant has just made a pessimistic forecast of its year-end earnings, which led many to think its Black Friday special were going to be something special. Well, the Best Buy Black...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Plasma, Advertisement, HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Dell CTO Kettler retiring
- Kevin Kettler, Dell's Chief Technology Officer and an active member of the Austin, TX community, reportedly will retire, sources told CNET. His departure is not part of Dell's reorganization activities Apparently, word of his retirement has been expected for some time and he recently announced it to...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Financial Accounting, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- 34% of US households have an HDTV
- LRG found that 34% of households in the United States have at least one high definition television HDTV set – approximately double the share of households that had an HDTV set in 2006. The growth of HDTV sets was largely driven by on-going consumer purchasing of TV sets coupled with...
- Tags: HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, AM
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Streaming movies right to your TV
- Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer of Netflix, believes that the future of movies is going to go right back to the television. With bigger and better digital televisions, what people want is to be able to download movies right to their sets via high-speed internet. Netflix has taken a step...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Movies, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Netflix Chief Product Officer: Streaming movies right to your TV
- Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer of Netflix, believes that the future of movies is going to go right back to the television. With bigger and better digital televisions, what people want is to be able to download movies right to their sets via high-speed internet. Netflix has taken a step...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Netflix
- Videos 2008-11-11
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