Home video a concern for studios: Morgan Stanley

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- The home video business, for many years a major cash cow for Hollywood's movie studios, is "an area of concern" amid a generally bright outlook for large media companies, according to a Tuesday note by Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne. Noting that video rental spending surpassed video sales in 2011 for the first time since 1998, Swinburne commented that the ...

How Amazon Could Split Netflix and iTunes to Win Streaming Video

Everyone knows that Amazon wants to extend its digital media offerings. Its executives know the long-term trends for sales of DVDs, Blu-Rays and their players. The company that dominates e-book and e-reader sales was already beaten first to digital music by Apple. Jeff Bezos never wants that to happen again.

D-Link's sub-$50 cloud router brings media streaming to impoverished street urchins

Streaming your media from your mansion's fine and all, but for those of us without a super-car and a butler, those cloud-based routers can be a little out of reach. Fortunately, D-Link's ensuring no-one will mount a movement to occupy the company's Taipei headquarters by releasing a cloud router that costs just $40. You can access it from the mydlink portal or the iOS and Android apps of the ...

TelVue(R) Expands New Media Solutions, Adds CNN Veteran and Uchannel(TM) Founder Donna Liu to Sales & Marketing Team

MOUNT LAUREL, NJ--(Marketwire - Jan 10, 2012) - TelVue® Corporation ( OTCQB : TEVE ) ( PINKSHEETS : TEVE ), a leader in IP Television Broadcasting and Internet Video Streaming, is pleased to announce the addition to its Sales and Marketing team of UChannelT Founder and CNN veteran Donna Liu, in the newly-created position of Director, New Media.

OPINION: Ian Rogers: Instead of Sopa, Here's How to Combat Piracy While Encouraging an Open Internet

Guest post by Ian Rogers of Topspin Media. Last week's Internet-wide SOPA/PIPA protests divided the Internet between content owners looking for stronger anti-piracy tools and technologists who believed the proposed legislation was an overreach. Those opposed said SOPA/PIPA opened the door to content companies taking down sites such as Tumblr and WordPress based on infringement by even one of the ...