News tagged with digital video

Kodak to stop making cameras, digital frames

Kodak says it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in order to focus on its more profitable businesses.

Technology / Business

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Home video spending in US falls 2 percent in 2011

(AP) -- Home video spending in the U.S. fell 2 percent to about $18 billion in 2011. A surge in the popularity of movie streaming services like Netflix Inc. and gains in Blu-ray disc sales helped offset some of the drop ...

Technology / Business

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dish launches DVR that extends to other rooms

(AP) -- Satellite broadcaster Dish Network Corp. on Monday said it's launching a high-powered set-top box that can act as the central TV recorder for the whole home.

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

AT&T to pay $215M to TiVo to settle patent suit

(AP) -- AT&T Inc. will pay TiVo Inc. at least $215 million through June 2018, becoming the latest TV signal provider to settle a patent lawsuit involving the digital video recorder pioneer.

Technology / Business

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Checkmate! Researchers outsmart Intel copy protection HDCP

For over a decade, Intel's widely used copy protection HDCP has been trusted by the media industry, which carries out business in high-resolution digital video and audio content worth thousands of millions. Researchers from ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Canon offers new camera for Hollywood filmmakers

(AP) -- Four decades after winning Academy Awards for its cinema lenses, Canon Inc. was back in Hollywood on Thursday, unveiling a new high-end digital video camera before an audience of some of the world's ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Spy software can see smartphone texting realtime (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, there was news from video provider Qumu of their discomforting survey that at least half of Americans would use smartphones to secretly spy on others. Now there is rattling news that spy software ...

Technology / Software

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

US home video spending up for 1st time since 2008

(AP) -- In a welcome relief for Hollywood, Americans are finally spending more on home videos.

Technology / Business

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Viacom to NY court: Scrap YouTube copyright ruling

A lawyer for Viacom Inc. warned an appeals court panel Tuesday that there will be greater exploitation of copyright material on the Internet if the court lets YouTube get away with a business built on "rampant copyright infringement."

Technology / Internet

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Activision jumps into kids' game with 'Skylanders'

(AP) -- To impress kids these days, it's not enough to make another video game. Mere action figures won't do, either. So Activision is merging the two.

Technology / Software

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Studios' view-everywhere system has soft launch

(AP) -- A Hollywood initiative that aims to revive home video sales by enabling you to watch your purchased movies on multiple devices had a soft start Tuesday as Warner Bros. released "Horrible Bosses" without ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Imec implements multi-mode digital TV receiver on reconfigurable processor with record area efficiency

Imec developed a reconfigurable receiver for highly diversified digital video broadcasting standards (DVB-T, ISDB-T and ATSC). The receiver is realized using algorithm-architecture co-optimization of imec’s reconfigurable ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

EU approves Microsoft's Skype takeover

European anti-trust officials approved on Friday US technology giant Microsoft's $8.5-billion takeover of Internet voice and video leader Skype.

Technology / Business

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Review: Software for recording now, playing later

(AP) -- If the idea of being stuck on a plane for hours without access to the movies in your Netflix queue fills you with dread, software that lets you record streaming videos from the Web and watch them ...

Technology / Software

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo! in ad deal: WSJ

AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! are proposing to offer space on each other's sites to advertisers in a bid to take on Google, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0