US TVs Get Connected
The Diffusion Group announced it reckons that 56% of all US broadband households have at least one TV connected to the Internet.
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US IPTV Growth Slows in Q4
IHS announced it reckons that the growth of the U.S. Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) market continued to decelerate in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Netflix and Disney Ink Streaming Deal
Netflix announced that it has signed a new multi-year licensing agreement that will make Netflix the exclusive U.S. subscription television service for first-run live-action and animated feature films from The Walt Disney Studios.
Crackle Launches PlayStation 3 App
Crackle announced a new application that makes it video programming more easily accessible to PlayStation 3 users in the United States and Canada.
IPTV Continues to Gain Traction
Parks Associates announced it forecasts that the number of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) subscribers in the U.S. will rise from 8.8 million in 2011 to 18.6 million in 2017.
DMCA Exemption for DVD Remixes
The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) announced that it has successfully obtained a DMCA exemption from the Librarian of Congress allowing noncommercial remix makers to use short clips from DVDs.
GSA Contract Extension for Microtech Systems
Microtech Systems announced the five year extension of its General Services Administration (GSA) IT Schedule 70 contract.
3D Display Sales On the Rise
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced it forecasts that the overall consumer electronics industry in the U.S. will grow by almost 6% this year and sales of 3D-enabled displays will reach 5.6 million units, up 104% year-over-year.
Carriers Bombard Americans with 3D Olympic Games
NBC Olympics and Panasonic announced that 3D coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games will be available to nearly 80% of U.S. TV households.
Pennsylvania Senator Pleads for Cinram Jobs
U.S. Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. is asking Najafi Companies, the new owner of Cinram, to preserve the optical disc replicator’s 500 member workforce in Olyphant, Pennsylvania.
Toshiba Nailed for LCD Price Fixing
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein announced a U.S. federal court jury found that Toshiba Corporation participated in a conspiracy to fix the prices of Thin-film Transistor (TFT) Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panels.