"digital media" articles

Adobe made a couple of interesting announcements last week relative to making Flash available on the TV. On January 5 , Adobe and Intel announced plans to collaborate on the development to port and optimize Adobe® Flash® technology for the Intel® Media Processor CE 3100. This effort is expected to provide consumers with richer and more seamless Web-based and video viewing experiences through advanced Intel-based cable set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, digital TVs and retail...

Roku is now able to show Amazon Video On Demand content on its Roku Digital Video Player. Beginning in early 2009, the Roku Player, which currently supports only the Netflix service, will offer access to Amazon Video On Demand’s more than 40,000 commercialfree movies and television shows enabling Roku customers for the first time to watch new release movies titles instantly.

Macrovision had several announcements from last week, including: It introduced its next generation Interactive Program Guide (IPG) that can help consumers enable access to broadcast, personal and premium content from one screen. This next-generation IPG is being developed under the project name “Neon" and is aimed at the consumer electronics industry. Neon features include: * Rich program descriptors and cover art for TV shows * A personalized TV...

This is a practical application. Entropic was showing a demonstration with the NETGEAR MCAB1001 Ethernet to Coax Bridge (ECB) kit, powered by its c.LINK MoCA technology, in live demonstrations with the VUDU HD Internet Movie Box at CES.

I was getting pinged all last week from the on-the-ball PR and MARCOM team at HDGIANTS. They have a number of consumer electronics partners. HDGIANTS has the HD MediaStore™ client application, which hardware manufacturers like AMP integrate into their media server products, provides a seamless and robust search experience for high definition movies and music that includes content previews as well as in-depth metadata. Convenient navigation between the HD music and the HD video content...

I guess it's obligatory that we in the analyst and press community need to come up with our "Top-Whatever" lists of the key trends, key products, etc. from either the year just ending or for 2009. It definitely does help to distill the main news and hot items for the year into some easily digestible deliverables ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show next week. In fact, the Parks Associates' analysts got together a couple of weeks ago to deliver a Webcast titled 2008: A Digital...

AT&T announced yesterday that it has hit one million subscriptions for U-verse. U-verse definitely seems to be picking up steam. However, the growth in subscriptions has slowed slightly for AT&T 46% in Q2 vs. 44% in Q3 and softening consumer spending could potentially impact the Q4 numbers a little more than anticipated. Tack on digital download tax to the tobacco tax in New York. Governor Paterson is exploring the possibility of taxing digital downloads in an effort to...

One-third (33%) of U.S. broadband households are looking for ways to access their stored media content from outside the home, according to international research firm Parks Associates. The firm reports 35% of these households consider remote viewing a highly appealing ability. This demand for remote access will guide future networking plans among service providers, Parks Associates reports. The firm forecasts that over 50 million households worldwide will be using place-shifting...