http://www.screendigest.com/rss/ en-gb Copyright: (C) Screen Digest 240 Virgin's 'next generation' service strategy is beginning to pay dividends as the UK cable operator received a boost from its TiVo set-top play and super-fast broadband offers, despite a stagnant TV customer...(free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_02_virgin_increasingly_reliant_on_next_generation_services/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_02_virgin_increasingly_reliant_on_next_generation_services/view.html 2012-02-09 Having fended off Carl Icahn's takeover effort (see "Lionsgate's successful Icahn defense a sign of the times" 31 October 2011) in 2011, Lionsgate Entertainment quickly turned around and became a buyer in...(free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_02_lionsgate_bolsters_film_side_with_summit_acquisition/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_02_lionsgate_bolsters_film_side_with_summit_acquisition/view.html 2012-02-04 In its financial reports for the fourth quarter of 2011, Japanese company Toshiba posted a loss of „10.6bn ($138.7m; ?105.2m) amongst total revenues of „1.4tn ($18.3bn; ?13.8bn). The...(free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_japan_tv_slump_hits_toshiba/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_japan_tv_slump_hits_toshiba/view.html 2012-02-01 Hitachi Ltd. plans to end in-house production of television sets in Japan.  Both overcrowding in the market and strengthening of the yen have made it difficult for the company to compete in a low profit...(free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_hitachi_to_end_tv_manufacturing_in_japan/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_hitachi_to_end_tv_manufacturing_in_japan/view.html 2012-01-31 BSkyB saw net additions of core TV households for the year to end of 2011 more than half against the previous year, but put more weight behind multiscreen and out-of-home access to drive future growth,...(free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_sky_pushes_multiscreen_as_core_tv_business_slows/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_sky_pushes_multiscreen_as_core_tv_business_slows/view.html 2012-01-31 Time Warner Cable (TWC), the 2nd largest cable operator in the U.S., posted a fourth quarter residential video decline of 129,000 subscribers, or 1.1 per cent of its basic subscriber base. This is an...(free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_time_warner_cable_video_revenue_flat_broadband_up_profits_way_up/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_time_warner_cable_video_revenue_flat_broadband_up_profits_way_up/view.html 2012-01-27 Verizon added 194,000 FiOS video subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2011, bringing the IPTV operator's subscriber base to 4.17m, up a respectable 20 percent from 2010 when it ended the year at 3.47m. For...(free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_verizon_maintains_fios_momentum_with_4q_full-year_video_subscriber_gains/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_verizon_maintains_fios_momentum_with_4q_full-year_video_subscriber_gains/view.html 2012-01-26 In Google's most recent results the company reported: 250m Android devices activated to date. This represents first time activations of devices that include Google's proprietary apps such as Gmail, Android...(free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_google_q4_2011_results_the_search_for_mobile_revenue_and_profits/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_google_q4_2011_results_the_search_for_mobile_revenue_and_profits/view.html 2012-01-23