by Jeffrey Henning | Mar 11, 2013 | entertainment
“House of Cards” will go down in television history as a landmark: the first series to have an entire season’s worth of new episodes made available at once. Released February 1 by Netflix as the first in its line of original programming, the show is specifically...
by Jeffrey Henning | Feb 26, 2013 | entertainment
The Institute for the Future recently completed a retrospective study for the Lego Group on 7 transformations in how children play and spend their free time.Social reach – Children have moved to “smaller, more intimate networks” even as the amount of time they spend...
by Jeffrey Henning | Feb 2, 2013 | entertainment
Ever been at a party where someone said, “We never watch live TV anymore”? Well, anecdotal evidence aside, most shows are watched live. According to the most recent Nielsen Cross-Platform Report, 87.2% of broadcast TV is watched live, 5.5% is watched later that same...
by Jeffrey Henning | Feb 1, 2013 | Consumer Surveys, entertainment, Games Industry Surveys, In the News
According to a Researchscape survey of 1,000 consumers, 9.8% of respondents without a video game console said it was the device they didn’t own that they were most interested in purchasing. Unsurprisingly, the primary reason that people are interested in video game...
by Jeffrey Henning | Jan 30, 2013 | entertainment
In the U.S. and Canada, from 2010 to 2011 the number of 3D screens increased 61% and the number of 3D film releases increased 73%, yet revenues for 3D movies declined 18%. This reversal follows three years of dramatic growth.IHS Screen Digest estimates that the number...
