The internet has fundamentally changed the television business and the Chairman of the FCC is preparing to change how the agency categorizes pay TV providers to adapt. Read more »
What makes the Weinstein Company’s strategy for the “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” sequel truly unusual is that the film is bypassing all transactional windows — from theaters to DVD sales and… Read more »
Insofar as the internet can be used to distribute video there’s no obvious reason to think the historical dynamic between content and distribution won’t eventually assert itself as the IPTV market… Read more »
People are watching TV show episodes later and later. Is the sheer number of good shows on TV these days to blame, or do we want to binge on everything? Read more »
Many long-standing legal rules of engagement between publishers and consumers tilted the playing field in unexpected ways in the first quarter. The period also saw a major expansion in the amount… Read more »
Redbox Instant is available to all after a closed beta test that netted the company tens of thousands of paying customers. CEO Shawn Strickland told us that his company won’t do… Read more »
The fourth quarter saw new fissures emerge in some corners of the digital media business, while some old fissures reemerged in others. Having held off the immediate challenge of over-the-top video,… Read more »
AT&T is using the big CES pulpit to talk up its work in services and applications, rather than just unveil its latest handsets. It’s exploring a new universal phone number APIs,… Read more »
We’ve got some exclusive details about Redbox Instant by Verizon, the yet-to-be-launched Netflix competitor with the complicated name: The service will charge consumers as little as $6 per month, launch with… Read more »