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On July 10, the Gallup organization announced the results of its latest poll on America’s confidence in various institutions with the headline “Americans’ Confidence in Television News Drops to New Low:” Americans’ confidence in television news is at a new low by one percentage point, with 21% of adults expressing a great deal or quite Continue Reading →

We’ve known for some time that Amazon is planning to make original TV content. But now Bezos and co have announced that Amazon is turning its back on the US, instead choosing to develop a center in London to spearhead its move into media. The Telegraph reports that the Seattle-based firm has named London “the Continue Reading →

Hulu has revamped its video player, ditching its older look for a more user-friendly interface. The clean new look integrates features like 10-second rewind, allowing users to easily cut back to moments earlier in video, and a more compact player that organizes buttons such as pop-out and closed captions within one menu. The player will Continue Reading →

Amazon has announced a licensing deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, which will see TV shows such as Fringe and The West Wing added to its Prime Instant Video catalog. Just last month, we reported that Amazon had reeled in MGM in a similar deal, to brings a plethora of movies and TV shows Continue Reading →

You can suspend those suspenders for only a while. Seventy-eight-year-old TV interview legend Larry King will make his return from a two-year retirement Tuesday with a new half-hour interview show debuting in the early evening on Hulu and Hulu Plus. His first guest: Family Guy and Ted creative mastermind Seth MacFarlane. New installments of Larry Continue Reading →

While regular consumers still wait for the first big screen OLED display to make it to big box stores, Korea’s Ministry of Knowledge Economy has chosen LG to lead the consortium charged with developing a 60-inch flexible OLED by 2017. Part of the Future Flagship Program, its goal is to generate exports and create jobs Continue Reading →

Announced at this year’s CES 2012, Samsung has revealed that it will be bringing Rovio’s Angry Birds to its Smart TVs this month, allowing owners to smash pigs from the comfort of their sofa with new gesture-based controls. The Smart TV app will be the first Angry Birds title to operate on a TV without Continue Reading →

This isn’t the best year for television manufacturers, as total unit shipments are expected to ease some 1.4%, according to data presented by DisplaySearch. That decline is brought about by a slowing in the growth of sales of LCD televisions, which are expected to rise only 5% this year. That’s down around 28% from 2011’s Continue Reading →

The movie and TV streaming joint venture Hulu has closed a deal to license its webseries “Spoilers with Kevin Smith” to the Canadian cable TV channel Space, Variety reports. This is the first time Hulu has sold some of its original content to a TV channel – albeit a non-US one (Space belongs to Canadian Continue Reading →

Samsung’s new top-of-the-line LCD is now available in South Korea, bringing a 75-inch diagonal and an impossibly thin bezel into the hands of a lucky buyer with a thick wallet. The ES9000 has a 7.9mm bezel, Samsung’s Diamond Black Panel which should bring big improvements in clearness, contrast and brightness, and an array of smart Continue Reading →