GLG News by Interactive TV Software Experts (North America)

1.    Real D, Dolby and NuVision battle it out over ease of use, technology and business model      2.    The number of 3-D Cinema installations is tiny compared to the total number of screens worldwide… there is an extensive market waiting to be...

1. Fox and Paramount “experiment” with new release sales on iTunes      2. Studios have hesitated to offer new releases for sale on iTunes due to pricing fears and the fear of Apple becoming al too powerful.

Simply put, Focus Wireless collects mobile subscriber numbers and private information through legal or illegal means, processes the subscriber data into categories such as business owner, car owners, bank VIPs, etc...  Focus Wireless then tries to target the mobile subscribers with targeted advertisements...

1.  Sharp recently regained the number one spot for sales of HD LCD TV’s from Vizio.  2. 60% households who are planning to purchase a new television in the next six months are planning to buy an HDTV set.      3.  DIRECTV is achieving strong HD growth.

Lots of us considered IMAX down and out in recent years as the institutional theater market (museums, etc.) began to dry up and as IMAX and others failed to provide sufficient appropriate content to the commercial theater circuits to which the Company was selling systems. Now with 3D being one of the...

This is a significant milestone in the business sense.  So far, Wimax had been viewed as a threat to the incumbents from the left field.  With this approval by ITU, it begins to legitimize WiMax among the cellular incumbents.

The strongest supporter of WiMax Intel has announced that it will embed its WiMax technology in the processor dubbed Montevina in May of 2008. Intel intends to establish their own Intel-based handsets as well. The biggest US WiMax operator Sprint Nextel also announced that they will deploy WiMax to...

Over the long-term (five years and out), the low-cost Asian phone manufacturers are becoming more competitive with features and low cost, making it diffult for the large vendors to sustain their R&D in the US or Europe.  In the short run, the Asian manufactures are still more focused on the...

DirecTV has added 21 new HD Channels to their existing tier of 31 toward a goal of 100 by year end. This is great news for their subscribers and for those who understand and appreciate the big difference that viewing in HD can make. However, the question becomes whether this will add a significant number...

While the format wars in the next generation DVD systems continue to confuse customers clearly indicating that there is not going to be an obvious winner for some time, if at all, VOD may be sneaking under the radar. This is still a very nascent business. The studios in making their content available...