Comcast will report video subscriber losses of between 100,000 and 150,000 in the third quarter, the No. 1 cable operator’s residential products chief, Matt Strauss, said.

Source: Comcast will lose 100K-150K video subcribers in Q3, residential products chief Strauss says | FierceCable

On Thursday, Mr. Iger said that the company’s Hollywood-oriented service would be introduced in “late 2019” and would include all new-release movies made by Walt Disney Studios, which includes Disney’s core film factory as well as Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm.

Source: Disney Plots Streaming, From ‘Star Wars’ and Marvel to Pay-Per-Sports – The New York Times

According to its S-1 filing for the IPO, Roku has 15.1m active accounts, and generated 9.4bn ‘streaming hours’ in 2016, up from less than 1bn in 2012.

Source: Set-top box maker Roku files for $100m IPO

On Thursday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an injunction in a copyright lawsuit brought by Disney, Fox and Warner Bros.

Source: Appeals Court Upholds Injunction Against VidAngel’s Streaming Service | Hollywood Reporter

Delivering to the linear pay-TV industry a rather conclusive marker as to what devices companies should be developing OTT and multiscreen apps for, Parks Associates said that Roku now controls 37% of the market for streaming players in the U.S.

Source: Roku now controls 37% of the U.S. OTT device market | FierceCable

Sales are growing quickly. Some 10.7 million Amazon customers in the U.S. owned an Echo device at the end of the first quarter, up from three million a year earlier.

Source: Investors Are Betting Smart Speakers Will Have a ‘Smartphone Moment’ – WSJ

Apple is planning to unveil a renewed focus on the living room with an upgraded Apple TV set-top box that can stream 4K video and highlight live television content such as news and sports, according to people familiar with the matter.

Source: Apple Is Planning a 4K Upgrade for Its TV Box – Bloomberg

Apple has more than $1 billion budgeted for original programming, Facebookwants its own version of “Scandal” and Google is ready to spend up to $3 million per episode on a drama.

Source: Crowded TV Marketplace Gets Ready for Three Tech Giants – The New York Times

Discussing the future of TV networks, Bell said, “We like to work with networks. We actually think this idea of ‘network’ is going to live on.”

Source: Snapchat Content Chief Expects First Scripted Fare This Year, Says “Mobile Is Not a TV Killer” | Hollywood Reporter

Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales

Source: Who Owns the Internet? | The New Yorker

Curzon Cinemas, a chain of movie theaters in the United Kingdom, isn’t waiting for premium VOD. The 10-theater arthouse operation is launching a proprietary video-on-demand streaming service.

Source: U.K. Theatrical Chain Launching SVOD Service | Home Media Magazine

The big issue is how much cannibalization is coming to Disney’s and Fox’s home-entertainment business when they move into more streaming video services.

Source: Disney’s Biggest Concern For New Streaming Service Isn’t Netflix 08/23/2017

The challenge for Disney is that as that old business erodes, the freedom to not choose between a vertical and horizontal model will erode as well.

Source: Disney’s Choice – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

The best way to put your photos on ice is to freeze them. Extremely cold molecules could soon hold hundreds of times more data than existing hard drives.

Source: Icy hard drives cram 5300 movies onto a postage stamp | New Scientist