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You may not think twice about how that Coca-Cola commercial airing in Giants Stadium made its way onto the big screen in front of your eyes, and that's because Avocent, a division within Emerson Network Power, is behind the scenes providing the plumbing to make sure that your message is delivered seamlessly.

TiVo recently announced that despite a very early morning start in the U.S. to last Friday's royal nuptials, over 41 percent of DVR viewers got up and watched the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton live. TiVo confirmed that NBC, ABC and CBS networks took in the major share of American viewership of the live telecast.

RCA announced it is releasing new portable digital TV receivers to give viewers instantaneous access to local TV news and weather broadcasts in an affordable package.

In an effort to create a whole new Digital Merchandising Experience, Prysm, the digital display innovator, has unveiled new line of retail display solutions.

Digital Dispatch Systems, the taxi business unit of DDS Wireless International Inc., recently announced that it has received an order for $1.7 million from Taxis G7 of Paris, France, for the company's Vector 9000 mobile data terminals. Taxis G7 is the largest taxi operator in Europe with more than 6,500 taxis in Paris, and is one of several leading European taxi companies that rely on DDS fleet management technologies to optimize their operations.

Dish Network and former parent company EchoStar have agreed to pay TiVo $500 million to settle a seven-year patent infringement lawsuit over digital video recorder technology.

YesVideo, a media conversion provider that brings generations of families' video and photo memories to today's most popular viewing formats, has unveiled its newest service of converting home movies to high definition digitial Blu-ray discs. Officials with YesVideo said that the company is the first to offer consumers nationwide a service that transfers memories captured on SD memory cards from digital cameras, camcorders and smartphones to high definition Blu-ray discs for state-of-the-art viewing and sharing.

The broadcast of the Royal Wedding, the marriage of Prince William to Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey, calls for nothing less than high definition digital feeds, and Level 3 Communications, Inc., is one of six broadcasters preparing to bring the highest level video feeds to North American viewers.