TV broadcasters are making their own contribution to the growing mobile video market with Dyle, a service that plucks their programming out of the DTV airwaves and renders it on mobile phones and other small-screened devices. A Samsung Galaxy phone will be the first Dyle device. Read more »
Broadcasters have been looking for a carrier guinea pig to test out their mobile digital TV service, and on Wednesday they found one. MetroPCS has agreed to sell an Samsung Android phone embedded with a chip that will pluck digital TV signals directly from the airwaves. Read more »
You can now get video on your iPhone or iPad from many sources, but grabbing over-the-air local TV directly, which is still the best (legal) way not to pay for TV hasn’t been a possibility. That’s going to change, thanks to iOS-compatible mobile DTV receivers. Read more »
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Apple TV Won’t Be Your Cable Box; Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer says adding cable tuning to its set-top box “just doesn’t fit Apple’s business.” (Business Insider) Stream5 Raises Funds; Munich-based online video company gets “seven-figure sum” from new investors KfW and angel Klaud Wecken and existing […] Read more »
Study: DTV Switch to Boost Pay TV Subscriptions; analysis from Wells Fargo Securities says cable will get 475,000 new subs, satellite will get 137,000 and telcos will get 41,000. (MediaWeek) Thomson Reuters Acquires Streamlogics; terms of the deal not disclosed; Streamlogics provides webcasting-based services to enterprise, […] Read more »
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia to Charge for Some Videos; Martha University will experiment with selling how-to videos for anywhere from $5.95 to $12.95. (paidContent) CBSNews Launching New Web Series; The Tomorrow Show and In Sickness and in Health are two new series, and Washington Unplugged is […] Read more »
TV stations across the U.S. shut down their analog transmissions on Friday, and so far, the national switch to digital television appears to be going without any major hiccups. Broadcasting & Cable reports that the FCC’s DTV help line received a record 317,450 calls on Friday, […] Read more »
Last night I went out to dinner with my dad and he brought me a little something he thought I would like. In retrospect, the gift is so close to being completely non-functional, it’s more sentimental than physical. It’s a Sony Watchman portable TV from the […] Read more »
[qi:032] After a fourth-month delay, the DTV transition, which will enable several services to run on the 700 MHz spectrum that had long been used for analog TV, will kick off tomorrow. For the string of companies affected by the delay, it will be a sweet […] Read more »
2.8 Million Unprepared for the DTV Transition; the national analog shutoff happens Friday, younger African-American and Hispanic households most unready; elderly are the most ready. (CNET) What’s Up With Live Video Streaming for the iPhone? Companies like Qik and Ustream are still unsure what live-streaming functionality […] Read more »
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Qualcommm’s (QCOM) MediaFLO mobile television service has the potential to reach 40 percent more people once the DTV transition occurs on Friday. The switch from analog television signals to digital television signals had been scheduled for mid-February, but concerns that a subset of the population weren’t […] Read more »
TOTLOL Closing Down; faced with “harsh limits” because it used videos from YouTube and targeted kids, the one-developer video site closes down. (TechCrunch) Elsewhere on in startup land, SplashCast is looking for a buyer: UGC company trying to sell itself after failing to raise a B […] Read more »
Web Video-enabled Devices to Quadruple by 2013; according to iSuppli, 376.5 million devices capable of supporting web video will ship annually by 2013. (Multichannel News) Study: DRM Drives People to Piracy; research shows that people get fed up with the heavy restrictions on content and find […] Read more »
Q&A With Google’s David Eun; one of the key guys tasked with making YouTube profitable says, “I know that we’re monetizing more than anyone else is making, and I know that our costs are significantly lower than what anyone else is serving up and hosting.” (paidContent) […] Read more »
Windows Media Center Gets Netflix Streaming; agreement lets users watch Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” movies on TVs connected to a Windows Media Center PC. (VentureBeat) Comcast Scores ESPN360; deal offers the broadband sports channel to the cable company’s internet subscribers. (MediaMemo) ESPN360 will also be offering a […] Read more »
A Comparison of Legal Terms from Different Hosting Services; what rights do you give up when posting to services like blip, Flickr or Dailymotion? (Advancing Usability) Report: Adobe’s DVRCast Launching Within a Week; product makes live video events instantly available on-demand, so you don’t have to […] Read more »
Kyte Streamed 50 Million Videos in April; of the 215,000 user accounts, just 1,000 account for 90 percent of the mobile videos streamed on the service; also, company launching iPhone apps for MTV, NBA and Spin Magazine. (TechCrunch) Versus Pits Fans Against Each Other in Fanarchy; […] Read more »
Man Delivers Baby with Help from YouTube; after watching some instructional videos he was able to handle the birthing while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. (BBC) Ask a Ninja Gets an iPhone Game; game is from Axo Studios and 10 percent of the proceeds will […] Read more »
StreetFire and Car Domain Merge; top two car social networks combine, Streetfire CEO Glenn Rogers to run the new entity. Both companies recently went through layoffs. (TechCrunch, our profile of StreetFire from 2007) Justin.tv Adds Facebook, Twitter and MySpace Functionality; now users can comment with friends […] Read more »
Coulda Been: Blockbuster Was Going to Get Into the Operator Biz; former exec explains how the movie rental chain was going to roll out video over DSL in partnership with Verizon. (All Things D) And while Blockbuster endures a far less glamorous fate, Redbox moves into […] Read more »
Italian Judge Gives Google Case the Green Light; suit against Google over a video of a disabled teen being bullied not thrown out; next step is a procedural hearing on March 17. (USA Today) See our previous coverage. So Far, So Good for Early DTV Switchers; […] Read more »
Well, today was supposed to be the big deadline for the national switch to digital television. While that date got pushed back to June 12, as of midnight tonight, 641 stations in the U.S. (36 percent of the country) will have shut off their analog broadcast […] Read more »
DTV Update: Obama signs bill that delays the digital TV switch till June 12. (The LA Times); FCC prevents 123 stations from going all-digital on Feb. 17 (previous coverage), 368 stations will do so. (Broadcasting & Cable) Feds and YouTube Near Deal; agreement would allow federal […] Read more »
DTV Delay-related News; according to Nielsen, more than 5.8 million U.S. homes (5.1 percent) are unprepared for the DTV switch (Nielsen Wire); the Consumer Electronics Association warns that the recent push back to the DTV switch could result in a shortage of converter boxes. (Broadcasting & […] Read more »
The House voted today to approve a four-month delay to the transition from analog to digital television signals, making the new June 12 deadline a near certainty. The Senate approved its own version of the bill last week, and since both bills are in accord, the […] Read more »
Disney-ABC TV Laying Off Hundreds; cuts coming from all divisions across the company and represent 5 percent of the company’s payroll. (The Hollywood Reporter) Google TV Ads Offer DVR Data; service gives its advertisers metrics on when and how their ad is viewed during time-shifted playback. […] Read more »
Members of the House this afternoon failed to pass a bill that would delay the transition from analog to digital television signals by four months. Without House approval, the deadline for the switch stands at Feb. 17. Stacey at GigaOM has the full story and some […] Read more »
The Senate yesterday approved a bill to delay the transition to digital television signals until June 12, and the House is expected to approve similar legislation today. While Qualcomm may be gnashing its teeth over the passage of the delay, which the company says could cost […] Read more »
The Senate late Thursday night agreed on a bill that would delay the transition from broadcasting analog to digital television signals by four months. It will vote on that bill next week. Meanwhile, the House this week approved the $6 billion in broadband funding offered under […] Read more »
White House Flip-Flops on YouTube Privacy Exemption; Obama’s administration had exempted the video-sharing site from federal rules relating to cookies and privacy, but later backpedaled and implemented a fix that limited YouTube’s ability to track visitors to the White House web site. (CNET) Senate Closer to […] Read more »
Qualcomm, mindful of how much it stands to lose if the transition to DTV is delayed, yesterday sent a letter to several legislators begging them to force nine TV stations in Boston, Miami, San Francisco and Houston to stop transmitting their broadcasts on the analog channels […] Read more »
News Corp.’s News Limited Picks thePlatform; the Australian subsidiary will use the white-label video provider across 50 different digital media properties, including news.com.au and Vogue.com.au. (emailed release) Adap.tv Partners With EyeWonder; two are teaming up to allow advertisers to create one ad that can run on […] Read more »
Rockefeller Proposes 3-Month DTV Delay; Democratic senator of West Virginia has introduced legislation that proposes pushing the transition date back to June 12 (The New York Times). Meanwhile, the FCC votes to implement the “analog nightlight” bill, which allows broadcasters to keep analog broadcasts up for […] Read more »
Wikipedia Ramps Up for Video; expecting a crush of video uploads in the coming years, the sum of all human knowledge boosts its storage to 48 terabytes. (Network World) IPTV to Grow 32 Percent Annually Over the Next Six Years; cable and satellite growth rates will […] Read more »
YouTube Mutes Infringing Music; instead of yanking the entire clip, just the infringing soundtrack is removed, resulting in a silent video. (Mashable) Jaman Expands into Europe; online movie service also hires former MySpace Exec David Fisher to head up localized UK site. (emailed release) Kwiry Lets […] Read more »
Last week, President-elect Obama suggested that the country push back the upcoming nationwide switch to digital TV (DTV) on Feb. 17. After bailing out banks, Wall Street and the automotive industry, would such a move just be bailing out procrastinators? Nielsen reported in December that 7.8 […] Read more »
Fox Interactive Media Shutters Flektor; online video editing and slideshow company closed down along with SpringWidgets. (paidContent) Opponents Pipe Up About Possible DTV Delay; FCC Chair Kevin Martin urges the incoming Obama administration to not push back the transition because it would create more confusion (DSL […] Read more »
DTV Coupon Program Out of Money; government program offering $40 toward digital converter box out of money weeks earlier than anticipated. (TVWeek) Sling Shows Off iPhone App, Mac Capabilities; SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone will let users watch TV and control their home DVR, SlingPlayer for Mac […] Read more »
From HDTV to 3-D TV; big TV manufacturers like Panasonic, Samsung and Texas Instruments are rolling out 3D-capable sets at CES this week. (The LA Times) Consumers to Cut Back on High-Tech Product Purchases; Forrester Research survey finds 51 percent of respondents saying they will spend […] Read more »
CBS Interactive to Launch Heckle-U; Tom Arnold to star in web series about heckling during college basketball games, will get some cross-promotion with March Madness. (The Hollywood Reporter) Pirates Stealing Live Sports Game Feeds; leagues like the MLB and NHL, which are trying to build their […] Read more »
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