Consumer Reports announced a survey of its online subscribers suggests that while Netflix may offer the most popular streaming video service around, it falls behind other alternatives when it comes to overall satisfaction.
Infonetics Research announced it forecasts that the global pay-TV market, including cable, satellite, and telco IPTV video services will grow from $261 billion in 2011 to $371 billion by 2016.
The NPD Group announced it reckons 80% of consumers that connect Blu-ray Disc (BD) players to the Internet to access online content view TV shows and movies through Hulu, Netflix and other Subscription Video-on-Demand (SVOD) services.
NPD DisplaySearch announced it reckons that approximately 27% of the televisions shipped during the first quarter of 2012 are capable of connecting to the Internet.
Microsoft announced that it is adding new video services as well as voice control and search capabilities to its Xbox 360 game console.
The NPD Group announced that many consumers supplement their pay television service from cable TV, satellite TV and IPTV operators.
The CW Television Network announced that it has signed a five-year licensing agreement with Hulu for the rights to stream in-season episodes of The CW’s programming on the Hulu Plus subscription service as well as the free, ad-supported Hulu service.
Microsoft Corp. announced plans to offer live and on-demand TV, in addition to movies, games, sports and music, over its Xbox LIVE service for the Xbox 360 game console.
Corel Corporation announced its new WinDVD Pro 11 Blu-ray Disc (BD) and DVD player software for the PC ($79.99).
Hulu announced that it has launched its video subscription service in Japan.
Audible Magic announced that Trident Microsystems has integrated Audible Magic’s SmartID automated content recognition system onto its Digital TV (DTV) platform.