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First Australian circuit chooses digital cinema path | 02 Sep 10 tags › | Australian cinema and entertainment group Hoyts has become the first Australian and New Zealand circuit to announce its planned digital cinema rollout, including equipment choices. Hoyts Cinemas has chosen to...

Panasonic in dimensionalisation U-turn | 01 Sep 10 tags › | Panasonic has undertaken a U-turn on its stance towards 2D to 3D conversion technology by including it in two of its new 3D televisions to be released in the US market in 2010. In the past Panasonic has...

Ad dollars flow back into agencies | 27 Aug 10 tags › | The recovery of advertising markets this year is reflected in the revenues of global advertising agencies in the second quarter. Aggregating the global revenues of Big Five agencies (WPP, Omnicom, Publicis,...

Disney launches ABC On Demand | 26 Aug 10 tags › | Disney is to launch ABC TV On Demand in the UK on BT Vision's IPTV platform. ABC TV On Demand is intended to provide a catalogue of ABC Studios shows to BT Vision customers. From launch in September, the...

Cablecom brings in 'Try before you buy' offer | 25 Aug 10 tags › | Cablecom, the Swiss cable operator owned by UPC, is introducing a 'Try and buy' offer in a bid to woo subscribers. Launching this autumn, the campaign will allow customers to try any Cablecom product for up to...

More online TV services announced for PS3 | 23 Aug 10 tags › | Sony has announced deals with several broadcasters to make their online TV services available via its PlayStation 3 (PS3) games console, including ITV, which becomes Sony's second broadcaster partner on the...

US pay TV operators swarm around the iPad | 20 Aug 10 tags › | Verizon has joined Cablevision and Dish Network in announcing an iPad app to offer some form of TV service to their customers. Verizon and Cablevision's apps will, initially at least, be limited to live...

OPTA Open Cable decision reversed by Dutch business court | 20 Aug 10 tags › | The Dutch business tribunal-College van Beroep voor het Bedrijfsleven (CBb)-has ruled against the regulator OPTA's decision to open up the cable networks of the nations four largest operators to third party...

Screen Digest expands mobile application store coverage | 20 Aug 10 tags › | Screen Digest has expanded its coverage of mobile application stores with new five year forecasts for Google's Android Market mobile application store. Coverage of Apple's App Store has also been...

Carphone Warehouse to host and stream users' music - for a fee | 20 Aug 10 tags › | The British mobile reseller Carphone Warehouse has launched a subscription music service - 'Music Anywhere', powered by Catch Media and Spare Backup. The service matches user-owned tracks to its own 6m track...

Mobile social games on rise in Japan | 19 Aug 10 tags › | Leading Japanese mobile social network and mobile commerce company DeNA reported total Q2 2010 revenues of $262m. It generated $172.9m from games related sales, comfortably making it the leading global...

Cablevision to launch multiscreen service | 18 Aug 10 tags › | US MSO Cablevision is developing a suite of applications which will deliver linear and on-demand (VoD) content to IP-connectable, video-enabled devices such as the iPad and smartphones. Although a launch date...

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