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Discovery+ starts streaming in the US on January 4th for $5 per month
Discovery+ is launching its on-demand streaming on January 4th at a starting price of $5 per month.
Dish Network will be the first to broadcast OWN HD nationally tomorrow
While we originally heard Oprah Winfrey's OWN network would get an HD simulcast, most haven't been able to watch it that way since it launched but that will change tomorrow when Dish Network adds OWN HD to its channel lineup. Check for it on channel 189 -- assuming you're on the America's Top 200 channel pack or higher.
50 million American homes to house HDTVs by 2008
Honestly, don't look so surprised. Just under two years ago, some 15-percent of American homes had at least one HDTV somewhere on the premises, and not long after, estimators were suggesting that a whopping 82-percent of domiciles would be HDTV-equipped by the end of this decade. Earlier this year, a more recent report found that over one-quarter of those residing in the US of A owned an HD-capable set -- though we'll never live down the embarrassment from the hordes of owners who've yet to figure out how to operate them. Nevertheless, an updated study has found that "more than 30 million US households now have at least one HDTV," and judging by recent sales figures, has estimated that 52 million homes will house an HDTV by the end of 2008. Now, how's about a few more HD channels for the growing sect, eh?
DS Daily: Is this an owner or renter's handheld?
Hanheld games are cheaper than console and PC games, which is something we previously addressed, but we're wondering if anything tips the scales, for you, into the region of ownership or into that of Renter's Land, a dangerous desert that is full of vagabonds and cannibals who snatch up lost and lonely games, only to use them, abuse them and later discard them like so much trash. We're wondering if the price, or nature of playing games on a handheld device, coerce you into one camp or the other?So, let us know how you think about this. Are you one who rents or just loves to trade in their DS games? Or do you have a massive collection accrued somewhere within your domicile (or hidden bunker complex somewhere)? Do you purchase, but wait for the price of games to go down before doing so? Do you use GameFly or rent from the local Blockbuster?
Report: Sales data undersells true reach of games
There seems to be a slight obsession with measuring the size of the video game market recently. First TV ratings experts Nielsen Media Research estimated nearly 46 million U.S. households have a game console. Then Scarborough Research ranked major U.S. cities based on console ownership. Now, Gameasure has issued a report saying simple sales metrics might be under-reporting the true reach of video games.The research group noted in a recent press release that video game sales don't take into account the true number of players created by "social game play, rental, used sales and pass-around." For example, while NPD estimates 2 million people bought Call of Duty 2 in North America, Gameasure estimates that 9 million North Americans have actually played the game. Such data is key to evaluating the effectiveness of in-game advertising, which cares more about individual eyeballs than game sales.While it's hard to know how reliable Gameasure's estimates are, it's nice to see somebody attempting to go past the sales numbers to estimate the true size of the game market.
