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Digital Sales Show Biggest Home Entertainment Gains in 2013
Hollywood’s home video industry showed significant signs of growth in several categories in 2013, with digital sales of movies and TV shows, in particular, growing by nearly 50% last year. The industry...
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Consumer Electronics Show and Founder Jack Wayman Still Going Strong After 45...
Call Jack Wayman “Mr. Analog.” Wayman, who’s worked in consumer electronics for 65 years, celebrated half a century with the Consumer Electronics Assn. in October. As the father of the Consumer...
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‘Extra’ Host Maria Menounos’ YouTube Channel Gives TV Fans an Online Forum
As co-host of syndicated entertainment newsmagazine “Extra,” Maria Menounos talks a lot about TV. But she’s even chattier online. The multihyphenate behind an upcoming reality show on Oxygen, a film...
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Sony to Introduce Cloud-Based TV, Streaming Game Services
New Internet-based entertainment services, including a streaming game service and a cloud-based TV service, highlighted Sony’s Tuesday morning keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show. The cloud-based...
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Studios, Tech Companies Unite to Set Ultra-HD TV Standards
A group of companies from across the television industry have banded together to form the Ultra-HD Alliance, a coalition aiming to establish open standards for 4K and higher resolutions, high dynamic...
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‘Walking Dead’ Producer to Create Content for Samsung’s Virtual Reality Headset
In one of the first significant content deals announced by Samsung to support its virtual reality headset, the company has enlisted “The Walking Dead” executive producer David Alpert to be among an...
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CES: Sony CEO Kaz Hirai Breaks Silence on Studio Hack in Keynote Address
Sony Corp. CEO Kazuo Hirai addressed the Sony Pictures hack at the beginning of his address to attendees Monday at the Intl. CES 2015 confab. “Both Sony Pictures Entertainment, former employees and...
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Samsung Calls on a Friend in Hollywood to Help Sell More TVs
With increased competition from Chinese brands stealing away a larger percentage of its market share, Samsung called in one of its friends in Hollywood to help make its new hardware at the Consumer...
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Volkswagen Signals Big Screens Not Just for Teslas Anymore
Massive tablet-sized digital screens mounted in the dashboards inside cars aren’t just for owners of high-end vehicles like Teslas anymore. Volkswagen used the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas,...
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Hollywood Tries Its Hand at Virtual Reality Content
The art of virtual reality is in creating the perception of immersion in a 3D environment that isn’t really there. It’s a challenge not unlike the one facing the nascent business of VR content:...
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