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Virgin Media has released its financial results for Q1, with revenue up 2.4% year on year to £1 billion.

Netflix says its UK launch has added three million subscribers to its overall figure, which now stands at 26 million.

Location-based services (LBS) have topped the global league as the mobile feature set to grow the most, after world leading insights consultancy TNS revealed over 60% of those that don’t yet use the service globally want to start using them.

Thomas Teckentrup, General Manager, Software & Services Division at Toshiba EMEA believes that pay TV operators have nothing to fear from connected TV platforms and should harness them as a way to dispense with set-top boxes and DVRs, removing this cost from their balance sheet and delivering their content via apps.

DG, a traditional-TV ad delivery company that moved into the online-ad space when it acquired MediaMind last year, has purchased ad-targeting start-up Peer39.

The next few years will see a major effort among companies to control entertainment services delivered to television sets. This “battle for the living room” is the subject of a series of new research reports from DFC Intelligence. These reports cover the efforts of content owners, video aggregators, and CE manufacturers to develop an alternative market for distribution of TV shows and movies.

25% of US respondents to ABI Research’s Technology Barometer survey said they intend to purchase a smartphone during the first half of 2012 – a percentage equaled by HDTVs. Additionally, more respondents intend to purchase Blu-ray players (17%) and game consoles (18%), rather than media tablets (16%).

Dolby Laboratories, Inc and Royal Philips Electronics have unveiled Dolby 3D, a 3D HD format and suite of technologies designed to deliver full HD 3D content to 3D-enabled devices, including glasses-free displays.

According to Rentrak Corporation’s new report “State of VOD: Trend Report 2011”, video-on-demand (VOD) is at the tipping point of becoming a major ad medium

US consumers viewed more than 8.3 billion video ads in March, according to new data from comScore.