Media & Entertainment

Over the last several years, HBO has been making its streaming video product more attractive to users, by adding more and more devices that users can stream its programming on. At the D: Dive Into Media conference today, HBO President and COO Eric Kessler said that the company is enabling AirPlay streaming for its HBO Continue Reading →

The next-generation Xbox—the one that will follow the still-popular Xbox 360—will run multiple games at once, require game installations, and will only work when a much-improved version of the popular but divisive Kinect sensor array is plugged in, according to a source who says he has access to development hardware. Those are a just a Continue Reading →

Hulu Plus. Amazon Prime. Netflix. Redbox. In an ideal world, any one of these would someday become an all-encompassing streaming service. One subscription, one price, one ticket out of the cable’s iron grasp. That’s never been the case, of course. But as exclusive content deals keep piling up, it’s increasingly clear that it never will Continue Reading →

In an effort to tempt more customers to its video streaming service, Amazon announced on Monday that it has signed a licensing deal with CBS Television, allowing Prime Instant Video customers to watch episodes of the TV adaptation of Stephen King novel Under The Dome four days after it is initially broadcast. The series, which Continue Reading →

Despite the talk of the PlayStation 4 becoming something of a graphics powerhouse, a new report suggests the importance of internal upgrades will be tossed aside in favor of “new playing options.” Sony plans to make a host of “new playing options” in its next console the focus of the device when it’s unveiled on Continue Reading →

After promising it would release a Windows Phone 8 app back in November, Spotify has finally launched its music-streaming app on the Windows Phone Store, allowing Nokia, HTC, Samsung and owners of other Windows Phone 8 handsets to get their music fix. The app is free and so is the service for the first 30 Continue Reading →

Making professional looking videos used to be something reserved for professionals. Today, however, with WeVideo’s online video creation environment, anyone with an online computer can edit and create great-looking, sophisticated videos, with a few clicks of a mouse. This week, WeVideo, which originally started in Scandinavia as a widely popular online media toolbox for school-age Continue Reading →

It’s no secret that Twitter’s data has been shown to predict box office performance weeks before a movie opening. However, the company’s latest venture takes it much further back in the production cycle. Adam Bain, president of global revenue at Twitter, said he was making the rounds in the Hollywood studios recently when a producer Continue Reading →

Microsoft will greatly improve its speech recognition technology inside the next Xbox, The Verge has learned. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s Xbox plans have revealed that Durango, the codename for the next Xbox, will support wake on voice, natural language controls, and speech-to-text. The improved capabilities mean that Xbox users will be able to walk into Continue Reading →

There will be a new OUYA next year, and the year after that, unlike the traditional game console model, where new hardware ships in five- to seven-year generational increments. “Our strategy is very much similar to the mobile strategy,” OUYA CEO Julie Uhrman told us in an interview this afternoon, following her DICE 2013 speech. Continue Reading →