The New York Times reports that fewer people are watching the new Fall TV series, possibly due to all the video available online, including full TV episodes (both at station sites and through illegal torrent sites). This is likely compounded by the fact that a few of the better ones have not come out yet, […]

It’s a fact that without the Writer’s strike in Hollywood being resolved that writers, actors , production staff and others are affected. In fact, there are five unions in Hollywood, so a lot of the industry and economy are affected. Us viewers are last in line, from this point of view. But as far as […]

For years, record labels and movie studios have been complaining about the losses due to bootleg copies of music CDs and movie DVDs. Well this may be over thanks to a technology known as RFID (radio frequency identification), at least for DVDs. The basic premise is that each disc will have an RF tag with […]

Due to licensing issues and fears of piracy, Asian countries will not get to use [Antara News] the new iTunes movie download service that Apple revealed yesterday, amongst other announcements of new iPods and the iTV PC-to-TV video streaming device. Asia in general is supposedly a fast-growing consumer of digital content.
The iTunes movie download service […]

Actually, CNBC TV just showed some clips of the device. It has a three-inch screen, 30 Gb of space and integrated wireless capability. In fact, they also showed a clip demonstrating two Zunes communicating, with one transmitting songs to the other. Toshiba will also manufacture the device under the name Pyxis.
There was little use of […]

CNBC TV had clips tonight of the new iTV device from Apple. With it, you can stream video content from the Internet to your TV. What I saw showed RCA jacks, but earlier news said that you can stream IPTV content wirelessly. Apple also started selling movies as of today, at US$9.99 per copy.
The problem […]

It’s official. Apple just announced in San Francisco today that they have an adapter which will let people transmit content from the Internet, via their computer, directly to their TV sets. And as I was wishing yesterday, the PC-to-TV converter is not specific to Apple Mac computers. Hurrah!! Something like this will revolutionize IPTV, and […]

An American news reporter doing an investigative assignment was attacked by the subject of an earlier related report. This YouTube clip shows you part of the incident. Note: graphic language and scenes; children should get permission from a parent to view this. The man trying to help the reporter was a business victim of the […]

With a big surge in interest for mobile TV, improving picture quality is on the minds of some companies such as Snell & Wilcox. The image processing company has come up with a way to improve picture quality for mobile video devices (MVD) running on a wireless network. Another company called Helios Mobile is using […]

China will have its first digital TV standard-compliant receiver solution [Comms Design] from Analog Devices. The device will be used in terrestrial digital TV broadcasting starting in Aug 2007. However, reception will be from mobile devices including smartphones, PDAs and capable streaming media players.

Tomorrow (Sep 12), Apple has a big press conference in San Francisco and everyone’s speculating as to what’s going to be announced. Will it be the purported iPod phone (iPhone)? Or has Apple connected TVs and PCs together? Or will it be related to mobile TV?
Given that Apple is selling movies online, having an easy […]