Al Jazeera has announced that it is going to stream its Arabic and English TV news channels through a custom built application for all Samsung smart TVs.

Deloitte has released an infographic to accompany their “State of the Media Democracy” report.

Second screen social TV start-up Zeebox has started its assault on the US market by poaching Time Warner Cable Media SVP Jason Forbes.

NPD DisplaySearch quarterly Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report showed that Samsung was the revenue market share leader in both LCD and plasma TV sets.

In 2011 worldwide TV shipments fell for the first time since NPD DisplaySearch began tracking global TV shipments in 2004, slipping 0.3% to 247.7m units.

Paidcontent has highlighted a major concern for second screen app producers.

Virgin Media has now added red button functionality to its TiVo service, starting with Sky Sports Red Button services.

Although no official announcement has come for YouView’s actual launch date, a speaker at the Digital Media Group’s summit yesterday let slip that it will launch on 14 May.

Speaking at the Morgan Stanley technology, media and telecom conference in San Francisco, Kevin Tsujihara, president of Warner Home Entertainment Group, has reiterated the stance taken by the Chief Executive of parent company Time Warner to persuade consumers to convert physical content into digital files.

The latest video-on-demand service for the UK launched this morning, called KnowHow, which as reported yesterday is intended to allows viewers to watch and buy from a library of films and TV shows directly from their TVs, smart phones, laptops and tablets. So how has launch day been?