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Sony Bows 4K Ultra HD Video Player With Movies (HMM)

Sony Electronics Nov. 29 unveiled a Blu-ray Disc video player pre-loaded with movies enabling consumers to watch 4K resolution content on compatible televisions in the home...... More

Now It’s a Race: ComScore Adds Up Web, Mobile and App Eyeballs for the First Time (All Things D)

Big news for Web publishers whose users are increasingly visiting them on their phones: They’re going to start getting credit for those eyeballs, via a new scoring system from co... More

Microsoft’s Trojan Horse: The Xbox in Your Living Room (AdAge)

Windows 8 could allow consumers to use all their screen devices in a consistent way, through the home command center ... More

China To Be World’s Largest Movie Market by 2020, Study Predicts (LA Times)

Media and entertainment companies doing business in China can expect double-digit growth in the world’s most populous nation but must be prepared to overcome a number of regulato... More

Verizon Settlement Pushes TiVo Into the Black (Multichannel News)

TiVo swung to a net profit of $59 million for the quarter ended Oct. 31 thanks to the patent-infringement settlement it reached in the period with Verizon Communications, while the... More

Parks Research Analyst: Consumers More Receptive To Connected TV Advertising (Beet.TV)

As more consumers adopt a digital lifestyle, complete with second-screen apps, tablets and connected TVs, brands are becoming interested in learning about connected TV advertising�... More

Former Yahoo Chief Says Premium Video Is “Crucial” To Media’s Future (Deadline)

Yahoo probably would have focused more on media than on technology if it had chosen Ross Levinsohn to be CEO instead of former Google exec Marissa Mayer...... More

Dick Costolo Says Twitter Is A Reinvention of the Town Square — But With TV (GigaOm)

New forms of media are often disruptive to existing forms, but Twitter CEO Dick Costolo says that his network is complementary to traditional forms like television, because it adds... More

Blu-ray Uptake Improving As Prices Drop (ZDNet)

Make Blu-ray almost as cheap as DVDs and it will sell. $40 Blu-ray players and $1.99 Blu-rays sell like hotcakes. Is the industry ready to accept near-DVD pricing for Blu-ray quali... More

Now TV Launches On Roku Streaming Players (Broadband TV News)

Now TV has been added to the Roku Channel Store and once registered viewers will be able to access content from the Sky Movies library. It is anticipated that Sky Sports will be ad... More

LinkedIn Blows Open Its Ad Platform (Adweek)

Today, LinkedIn will make it official: it’s in the advertising business. The business-centric social network still reaps the majority of its revenue from recruitment-related prod... More

Warner’s ‘Dark Knight Rises’ App Builds on Second-Screen Tech (HMM)

With each second-screen application, Warner Bros. just keeps adding more and more...... More

Google, Government Reps Warn Against Internet Regulation Summit (All Things D)

Three panelists — U.S. Ambassador David Gross, Google policy counsel Patrick Ryan and former Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Irving — presented a surprisingly unified arg... More

Akamai Touts Deep Analytics Products for Video (Beet.TV)

Akamai, one of the world's leading providers of cloud infrastructure and CDN services, is expanding its media services with a range of deep analytics tools, explains Bill Wheaton, ... More

Anarchy In The UK As Consumers Flock To OTT Video (IP&TV)

Consumers in the UK and US are changing the way they view TV and video content by increasingly taking control of how, when, and where they view it, according to new findings from A... More

Xbox 360 Outsells Wii U and Wii During Thanksgiving Week (LA Times)

The Xbox 360 not only outsold Nintendo's new Wii U during Thanksgiving week, but also outsold the Wii U and the original Wii combined...... More

Cable One Selects TiVo For Next-Generation TV Experience (Advanced TV)

Cable One, the USA’s 10th largest Cable MSO, has become the latest cable operator to offer the TiVo multi-screen, multi-source experience to its subscribers ... More

Analysis: Europe’s Telcos In Slow Lane As Cable Takes The Tape (Reuters)

Far from fearing the coming investment from Europe's telecom giants into superfast broadband, smaller cable firms believe they will still beat the big guns to the trigger...... More

Rovi Switches Off OTA-Delivered Guide Service (TWICE)

If you have an older television, DVD recorder or other device that incorporates an analog version of an onscreen electronic program guide (EPG) from TV Guide, GuidePlus, TV Guide O... More