Archive for 'TV & movies' Category
MobiTV to Offer Disney Channel
7 April 2008MobiTV will offer Disney Channel to its MobiTV service subscribers. MobiTV said the same content and programming as seen on cable and satellite television is now available to MobiTV service subscribers on their Web enabled wireless handsets via its carrier partners.
Mobile Entertainment to Pull in $47.5 Billion by 2010
14 March 2008The combination of greater 3G adoption and a marked increase in made-for-mobile content will drive mobile entertainment revenues to $47.5 billion by 2010, says a new report from Juniper Research.
The report also cautions that entertainment service adoption will slow down unless improvements are made in areas such as user interface, network coverage and excessive cost […]
Eisner’s Vuguru Releases New Series on V CAST
14 March 2008Verizon Wireless and Michael Eisner’s independent new media studio Vuguru said the other day that “The All-For-Nots” series will air on Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Video service this week. This is part of an ongoing triple-play strategy by Michael Eisner.
“The All-For-Nots,” Vuguru’s second original series, will debut on V CAST in the Music and Showcase […]
UVuMobile, GlobalTakeoff Partner to Offer Indian Content
5 March 2008UVuMobile has entered a mobile video hosting agreement with ethnic entertainment content provider GlobalTakeoff (GTO).
Under the terms of the agreement, GTO will use the uVuMobile hosting platform to distribute digital media Indian content to a community of more than 2.5 million Indian American households in the US via the company’s mobile unicast delivery networks. Beginning […]
Yahoo to Launch Go 3.0 in Europe, Unveils Mobile Content Management Service
5 March 2008 Yahoo said this week that its Go 3.0 service will soon be available for a number of European countries. Yahoo Go 3.0 is a mobile application that gives mobile phone users access to a number of interactive applications.
Within the next two months, European users in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK will be […]
iTunes Moves Up the Charts to Number Two
29 February 2008ITunes in 2007 was the US’ second largest seller of music - including sales of CDs and digital tracks, trailing only retail giant Wal-Mart, according to a report from the market research firm NPD Group.
BestBuy has fallen to third place.
In June 2007, iTunes passed Amazon.com to take the third place. NPD did not say whether […]
SK Telecom Brings Sony Pictures To Mobiles
1 February 2008SK Telecom said that it is bringing over 200 big name movies, such as “The DaVinci Code” and “Spiderman 3,” to its mobiles thanks to a partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment.
SK Telecom, which features about 22 million subscribers, has signed a four-year deal with Sony to provide 50 to 60 old and new movie titles […]
Sundance Films Available on iTunes, Netflix, Xbox Live
29 January 2008Organizers of the 2008 Sundance film festival, in conjunction with the pay-TV channel Sundance, will offer 45 of the festival’s short films for $1.99 through iTunes Movie Store, Netflix and Microsoft’s Xbox Live, according to MSNBC.com. “We thought, here’s a chance for filmmakers to make money,” said Sundance programming director John Cooper. “You have to […]
Three Cavalries to the Rescue for HD Video Delivered Over the Net
22 January 2008-P2P in Demand for HDVideo Delivery
P2P (peer-to-peer) technologies, the scourge of the music and movie
business for its use as a high-speed piracy tool, is resurrecting
itself as a means for delivering high-definition video over the
bandwidth-challenged broadband networks that are available to most
homes.
The sudden popularity of high-definition videos raises the […]
Intel, CE Makers Lead WirelessHD Gang
4 January 2008
- Wireless Connection of TV Sets, DVD Players, Digital Cameras
- Spec 1.0 Finished for Transmitting HD Signals within a Room
A number of large consumer electronics companies such as Panasonic, Sony and Toshiba as well as Intel and SiBeam, a start-up technology company, are developing a short-range wireless technology called WirelessHD that can be used to […]