television

This Just In: 3-D Isn’t a “Crucial” Television Feature

Lauren Goode in Product News on May 21 at 10:46 am PT

Sales of 3-D TVs are up, the NPD Group says, but whether consumers watch content in 3-D is a whole different story.

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Dish’s Ads to End All Ads

Shalini Ramachandran, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 16 at 5:32 pm PT

Dish Network Corp. plans to promote its new ad-skipping feature with, ironically enough, a television ad — that is, if broadcast TV networks agree to run the spot.

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Dish Network Offers DVR That Removes Ads

Shalini Ramachandran, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 10 at 2:16 pm PT

Dish Network Corp. released a feature on its digital video recorder Thursday that automatically removes commercials from shows aired by major broadcast networks, threatening to seriously undercut billions of dollars in broadcast television advertising.

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Nuance, Will You Turn On the TV for Me?

Lauren Goode in News on May 9 at 8:05 am PT

Nuance, which makes voice-recognition technology, said today that it is powering the voice-control features in Samsung’s 2012 line of Internet-connected TVs. At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Samsung showed off how its “smart” TV’s respond to voice commands to power-on, change channels, browse the Web and talk on Skype. Nuance has gotten a boost over the past year due to hype surrounding the iPhone 4S’s Siri, though it reported disappointing first-quarter earnings due to complex mobile relationships and delayed revenue.

Flat-Screen TV Prices: Anything but Flat

Lauren Goode in Product News on May 8 at 1:35 pm PT

So much for falling TV prices.

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Comcast Profit Rises 30 Percent

William Launder, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 2 at 5:45 am PT

Comcast Corp.’s first-quarter profit gained 30 percent as the cable- and television-network operator benefited from the Super Bowl broadcast on NBCUniversal and continued broadband growth.

Viral Video: “The Newsroom” Is Reborn

Kara Swisher in Media on May 1 at 12:01 am PT

Here’s a new trailer for HBO’s upcoming series “The Newsroom,” by famed Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.

Viral Video: The More You FerrigKnow

Kara Swisher in Media on April 27 at 3:52 am PT

Whatever former “Hulk” television show star Lou Ferrigno does, entertainingly speaking, I am for.

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Online Video Turns Up Heat

Suzanne Vranica and Sam Schechner, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Media on April 23 at 3:13 pm PT

Though television may be losing viewers to online video, it has been holding on to advertisers. But with online-video outlets this week making their most organized push yet for ad dollars, that may be starting to change.