By Erik Gruenwedel | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
egruenwedel@questex.com
Global proliferation of high-definition flat panel televisions in households does not reflect corresponding viewing of HD programming, according to a new HDTV report. Read More »
By Erik Gruenwedel | Posted: 22 Jan 2009
egruenwedel@questex.com
Spurred by continued strong video game sales, global packaged media sales are expected to increase 4% to $64 billion in 2009, according to a new report.
Media Control GK International said the DVD/Blu-ray market is projected to drop 4% to $27 billion (from $28 billion), despite a 150% increase in Blu-ray sales to $2.9 billion from $1.1 billion in 2008. Read More »
Horizon One Entertainment and its parent The Merkin Group which includes the online media specialists subsidiary BoxRED Pty Ltd see video games as a logical extension of their long term business strategy. “Whilst not a core business the growth cannot be overlooked” says Merkin Group and Horizon One Entertainment Chairman and CEO Sean Rothsey. Read More »
Coremetrics, a provider of digital marketing solutions, recently revealed that Australian and New Zealand online consumers are slowing spending and preferring to shop on home-grown sites, as the local dollar plunged during the quarter ending December 2008.
The conversion rate for online sales in Australia and New Zealand has dropped to just 2.9 and 2.5 orders per 100 online sessions respectively, compared with 4.4 and four respectively between the months of April and June 2008. Read More »
Ustream May Be First To Broadcast Video From Unhacked iPhone
Posted: 16 Jan 2009 04:51 PM PST
Ustream www.ustream.com is anticipating Apple’s approval of the first non-jailbroken iPhone application that will let users record and broadcast live video from the device. Last month MobileCrunch obtained a picture www.mobilecrunch.com of the application running on a test phone. Yesterday, co-founder John Ham demo’d the product for me here at TechCrunch.
The application lets users broadcast live video from the phone, as well as read and participate in user comments.
