Gaming & Games Consoles (Xbox, Playstation, PSP, Wii …) News

PLAYSTATION®Network's Video Delivery Service to Offer Movies and TV Shows for Purchase and TV Shows for Purchase and Rental Through PLAYSTATION®3 and PSP® (PlayStation®Portable)
Jul 15, 2008 – Sony (Tokyo: 6758; NYSE: SNE) Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has launched the company's new video delivery service on PLAYSTATION®Store for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) and PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) systems in the United States.
News categories: Sony Computer Entertainment, Digital TV, Gaming, Portable, Streaming, Tablet, USA

Canal+ VOD now available on Sony's Playstation Portable
Jun 11, 2008 – Canal+ Group and Sony Computer Entertainment France have combined to allow anyone with a PSP to watch a selection of the best films and videos available on CANALPLAY VOD, either at home or on the move.
News categories: Sony Computer Entertainment, Canal+, Digital TV, France, Gaming, Portable, Streaming, Tablet

Many Solutions Competing for Role as Living Room Media Hub
May 28, 2008 – Consumers are moving beyond basic PC-to-PC networks as they look to connect devices to the home network to access and share the growing array of digital content from the Internet, as well as from their own capture devices.
News categories: ABI Research, Gaming, Gateway, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming

BBC and Nintendo collaborate to offer BBC iPlayer on Wii
Apr 9, 2008 – Erik Huggers, the BBC's Group Controller for Future Media and Technology, has unveiled a collaboration with Nintendo UK to offer BBC iPlayer via the Nintendo Wii.
News categories: BBC iPlayer, Nintendo, Broadband, Digital TV, Gaming, Streaming, UK

Networking Connections Go from Nice-To-Have to Necessary in Consumer Electronics
Mar 26, 2008 – According to ABI Research, in coming years home network connections will no longer be an optional feature for many CE products, with the number for networked TV shipments alone growing to 65 million units by 2012, from 3.6 million in 2008.
News categories: ABI Research, Digital TV, DVD, Gaming, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming

As Format War Ends, 29 Million Blu-ray Homes Expected This Year
Mar 25, 2008 – The Blu-ray Disc victory in its recent format war with HD-DVD will propel this technology into 29.4 million homes worldwide by the end of 2008, according to the latest research published by the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, Gaming, Market Research, Streaming

Amino unveils world's first integration of the G-cluster streaming games service in HD at IPTV World Forum
Mar 20, 2008 – Amino (London: AMO) launched an integration of the AmiNET130 Set-Top Box (STB) with the first G-cluster HD games on demand application at this year's IPTV World Forum.
News categories: Amino, Digital TV, DVR, Gaming, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Streaming, Video Exchange

Awareness of Networked Multimedia Lacking but Growing in Asia/Pacific
Mar 7, 2008 – In the Asia/Pacific region, PC-literate homes and broadband subscribers represent a large potential market for home networking and various networked multimedia devices, reports In-Stat.
News categories: In-Stat, Asia, Blu-ray, Cable TV, DVD, DVR, Gaming, IPTV, Market Research, Optical Disc Recorder, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV

Orb Networks Continues Phenomenal Growth, Surpasses 5M User Mark
Feb 12, 2008 – Orb, which unlocks media stored on a PC and enables users to their enjoy music, videos, webcams, and anything from the web on any device with an internet connection, has announced that it has surpassed the 5 million registered-user milestone.
News categories: Orb Networks, Digital TV, Gaming, Market Research, Media Player, Placeshifting, Smart Home, Streaming, Subscribers