Internet video has the media industry worried. DVD sales, which are projected at $17 billion today, are expected to slow down substantially in the next few years, as online streaming picks up momentum. In the meanwhile, Avatar, with its record breaking sales of $2.2 billion, has injected new hopes in the industry. Would movies like Avatar be enough to save the sinking ship? (more…)

Mobile TV has analysts excited. ABI Research estimates that mobile TV will have 43 million subscribers by 2013, and research firm TeleAnalytics estimates 50 million mobile TV users in North America by the same year. But so far mobile TV has not nearly lived up to the hype. Qualcomm’s FLO TV, the technology used behind the current market leaders — AT&T’s Mobile TV and Verizon’s V Cast — still isn’t making money. For this holiday… Continue reading

GigaOm’s NewTeeVee Live event, which explores the future of TV, took place in San Francisco today. Though there were a number of interesting demos and presentations, three really stood out as being most likely to shape how we watch TV in the immediate future.

The first… Continue Reading

Rumors surfaced this week that Apple is in the process of putting together a $30-a-month iTunes TV offering. This rumored iTunes TV is supposedly something altogether different from the currently available Apple TV.

Apple TV is a piece of hardware that makes it easy to watch… Continue Reading