Surprise: The Internet hasn’t destroyed the entertainment industry. The business of making money with music, movies, video games and books has grown by 50 percent in the last decade, according to a new study. Check out some highlights of the study in this infographic. Read More »
The current state of social media is sophisticated enough to have a sense of what works but still remain open to experimentation. SyFy’s experiments when it came to launching season two of Being Human included promoted topics on Twitter and trying to tempt Neil Patrick Harris.… Read More »
Netflix can now be watched on more than 800 devices, and some of them are starting to gain more traction than others. Apple TV, for instance, has been really successful for the company — and tablets are starting to attract more usage than PCs. Read More »
Netflix may have had plans to expand into the rental market for video games when it tried to spin off its physical disc business last summer, but those plans are now canned. Instead, it may start delivering 3-D movies to its streaming subscribers. Read More »
Netflix now has close to twice as many streaming subscribers than DVD subscribers, according to its most recent financial statement. And with DVDs declining rapidly, the company has to look elsewhere to finance any further international expansion. Plans to go abroad are completely nixed for 2012. Read More »
Video of President Obama’s State of the Union speech has already been translated into seven languages, and additional translation efforts are underway online. The multi-lingual captioning efforts are the result of an election year partnership between PBS Newshour, Universal Subtitles and Mozilla. Read More »
The Apple TV sold 1.4 million units during the holiday quarter, about half of what Apple sold in the entire year prior. While it’s far from a mass-market device, its sales numbers show that even in a relatively small market, Apple dominates the competition. Read More »
Boxee’s new Live TV dongle combines free over-the-air HD TV with social sharing and an electronic programming guide. The device is specifically being marketed to cord cutters and people interested in ditching their pay TV subscription – but is it worth $50? Check out our review. Read More »
A year after launch, Encoding.com has decided to bring its Vid.ly universal URL service in-house. The cloud encoding vendor will make Vid.ly, which was originally rolled out as a standalone service, part of its offering to enterprise customers, which will bolster its overall product offering. Read More »
Vimeo has redesigned its website, with a much larger player and multiple features aimed at improving navigation and discovery. Built with its user base in mind, the new Vimeo has less clutter and is a lot faster when it comes to loading pages and finding… Read More »
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