Can The Home Theater Business Re-price Itself Back Into The Hearts and Wallets of Consumers?

This recession is a bitch. The talking heads on the Sunday morning shows were shooting off this weekend about the fact that the American economy was headed into recession no matter what, but the collapse of the real estate market......Read More

CEDIA 2009 Show Report - Andrew Robinson

While not quite as jammed packed or exciting as previous years, CEDIA 2009 still proved to be the place to be for new product launches, as understated as those launches may have been. Before I get into what excited me......Read More

CEDIA 2009 Show Report - Ken Taraszka, MD

CEDIA has been blowing up with new video technology over the last few years. 1080p was the big news just years ago, and while talk of 2K, 1440p and other formats have been thrown around and to some extent even......Read More

Comcast Taking More of Its Own Channels like E! and Versus To HD

Comcast announced today that they will be taking Versus, The Golf Channel, E Entertainment Television, G4 and Style to high definition resolutions today. Comcast cable subscribers are practically guaranteed to get these channels on their system however other digital cable......Read More

DirecTV Investor Lends Over $500,000,000 To Sirius XM (SIRI)

Liberty Media which owns a controlling interest in DirecTV, the leading satellite television provider, has agreed to lend $530 million to struggling satellite radio provider Sirius XM. The loan comes on the eve of rumors that Sirius XM was going......Read More

Dish Network Loses Over 100,000 Subscribers In Q4 2008 - More Expected

Dish Network's main money man, Charlie Ergen was all over the Sirius-XM money crunch last month and while some suggested it was bandwidth they are after - it now looks like it might just be raw subscribers. Reuters is out......Read More

Dish Network's Profit Dips 81 Percent

While satellite HDTV provider, Dish Network's revenue was pretty much flat, their profits as reported this past Monday are flat lining - off 81 percent from a year ago. Dish has been aggressively advertising that they are the "low cost"......Read More

Howard Stern Banned From Sirius-XM App on New iPhone

Talk about forgetting who brought you to the prom - ailing satellite radio provider Sirius XM (SIRI) has decided to leave the racy Howard Stern off of their newly released and highly anticipated Apple iPhone app. Sirius argued to government......Read More

Hulu To Start Charging Users In 2010

Popular online video site, Hulu, announced at a television tradeshow last week that they plan to start charging users at some point in 2010. Hulu has gained popularity, especially with Millennial and Generation Y users for its free content (with......Read More

Pantel Offers Solutions For Outdoor Video For Up To 65 Inch HDTVs

Pantel offers gamers an exciting alternative to being indoors all summer. Pantel HDTV's are available in 20 to 65-inch screen sizes, offering a 5 to 6.5ms refresh rate depending on the model. With a protective anti-glare glass screen, Pantel LCD......Read More

Parks Associates forecasts over 1.4 billion subscribers worldwide for TV services by 2013

Broadband households in Europe and the U.S. consistently rank primetime anytime VoD services as the most valuable service out of all TV 2.0 offerings, according to Parks Associates' new report Television Services: The Global Outlook. The international research firm says......Read More

Radio Shack Earns New Sales With Green Trade-in Program

If you thought sex sells then wait until you see how green sells. Radio Shack is the latest player in the consumer electronics space to cash in on the opportunity to open a sales dialog with consumers by suggesting that......Read More

Should Sirius-XM (SIRI) Fire Their Jocks?

In the early days of satellite radio, digital (non-terrestrial) radio was doing everything it could to be the anti-radio. One of the most heated debates in the digital radio sphere was over on-air talent. In order to compete with Apple......Read More

Sirius XM Shows Loss In Overall Subscribers (404k) For First Time

Consolidated satellite radio provider Sirius XM is reeling from having lost 404,000 total paying subscribers in the first quarter of 2009. This is the first time Sirius has ever shown contraction in the number of their subscribers. It comes on......Read More

Sirius XM To Release iPhone App In June

Newly consolidated Sirius XM just announced what has been rumored for months now - the satellite provider will have an "App" for the Apple iPhone coming this June. The pay radio service is looking for ways to increase its reach......Read More

TiVo To Return To DirecTV in Mid-2009

Leading satellite provider DirecTV confirmed that rumors of the TiVo operating system making a return to their system are in fact true. TiVo, despite being the best operating system for HDTV DVRs by all critical accounts, was dropped by......Read More