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An industry executive speaks
In a series of Q&As, frontline practitioners in all facets of the packaged media and digital delivery industry share their views of things past, present and yet to come. It's the turn of PANOS BISDAS, General Manager of Authorwave in Athens. Read More...
The rise of second screen applications
Social media and second screen are buzz words heard everywhere these days. But behind the hype, there is still little agreement on what the second screen market really is and on its importance in economic terms. RENAUD FUCHS, from Ericsson, offers a clear view on what the second screen market is really about. Read More...
A replicator adapts to market realities
QOL, Europe's first independent Blu-ray manufacturer, is adapting to France's fast-changing market conditions with the introduction of new services, micro-?dition, in particular. LAURENT VILLAUME, its CEO, shares with DVD Intelligence's JEAN-LUC RENAUD his views on the state of the industry, the challenges faced and the opportunities ahead. Read More...
An industry executive speaks
In a series of Q&As, frontline practitioners in all facets of the packaged media and digital delivery industry share their views of things past, present and yet to come. It's the turn of FABIEN REMBLIER, Director of BeeFree Production in Paris. Read More...
Few winners in 'The Installation Game'... so far
It is not enough to leave cloud-based digital video download in the hands of technologists. For the moment, it is not simple, laments BOB AUGER, President of Newm?rique. The success of DVD rests on its simplicity. The home entertainment industry should remember the target audience before it asks them to play 'The Installation Game.' Read More...
DVD and Beyond 2012
Welcome to the 14th edition of our annual publication, the informative, inquisitive, and at times irreverent companion to www.dvd-intelligence.com, our industry website. Hard-working DVD and Beyond readers are forgiven for feeling despondent as they hear the online prophets repeat ad nauseam that the days of packaged media are numbered. They shouldn't. Read More...
An industry executive speaks
In a series of Q&As, frontline practitioners in all facets of the packaged media and digital delivery industry share their views of things past, present and yet to come. It's the turn of EDWARD HALL, Operations Manager of Channel 4 in the UK. Read More...
Towards a new era for video and television
A generation ago people had to plan ahead for when a particular broadcaster transmitted a movie at a particular time, and make sure they were in front of the TV set when the broadcast took place. This was, after all, pretty much the definition of 'television,' remarks DAVID MERCER, Principal Analyst at Strategy Analytics. Read More...
Europe's packaged media - the unabated transition
In 2011, the migration of European video consumption from DVD to Blu-ray and digital platforms continued apace, carrying on in 2012. Nonetheless, buying and renting DVDs remained overwhelmingly the preferred channel through which consumers watch home entertainment, says TONY GUNNARSSON, Analyst at IHS Screen Digest. Read More...
An industry executive speaks
In a series of Q&As, frontline practitioners in all facets of the packaged media and digital delivery industry share their views of things past, present and yet to come. It's the turn of ANDY EVANS, Co-founder and MD of The Pavement in London. Read More...
An industry executive speaks
In a series of Q&As, frontline practitioners in all facets of the packaged media and digital delivery industry share their views of things past, present and yet to come. It's the turn of MARIA INGOLD, CEO of mireality, a technical consultancy in video-on-demand delivery. Read More...
90% of UK households pay for TV, video or cinema
The lines between pay and free are increasingly blurred. And if we broaden the question to consider people who pay in any way for video or television content, we can see that ?pay TV? in the traditional sense is only one part of the story, albeit a very important one, explains DAVID MERCER, Principal Analyst at Strategy Analytics. Read More...
Understanding the physical video decline
Worldwide consumer spending on physical video has been in decline since the market peaked in 2004. Looking ahead to 2016, the outlook is further decline for physical video. Understandably, there is a lot of concern within the industry about the future, says TONY GUNNARSSON from IHS Screen Digest. Read More...
How gesture and voice might save the TV industry
The business of selling television sets is a difficult one, to say the least - margins are cripplingly low, technology is fast moving and consumers are demanding. TOM MORROD, Senior Analyst at HIS Screen Digest, points to a way forward. Read More...
Companion TV Apps: viewers excited, then bored
Red Bee Media created quite a stir recently, explains DAVID MERCER, Principal Analyst at Strategy Analytics, when it launched a multi-screen TV app using Civolution's audio recognition technology to accompany FX UK's new series of The Walking Dead. Read More...
On predicting the future
Predicting the future, let alone the future of packaged media, is a perilous exercise, and possibly counter-productive, as the exercise closes doors rather than keep them open, argues JEAN-LUC RENAUD, DVD Intelligence publisher. Consider that: Apple was left nearly for dead 15 years ago. Today, it became the world's most valuable technology company, topping Microsoft.
Le cinéma est une invention sans avenir (the cinema is an invention without any future) famously claimed the Lumière Brothers some 120 years ago. Well. The cinématographe grew into a big business, even bigger in times of economic crisis when people have little money to spend on any other business.
The advent of radio, then television, was to kill the cinema. With a plethora of digital TV channels, a huge DVD market, a wealth of online delivery options, a massive counterfeit underworld and illegal downloading on a large scale, cinema box office last year broke records!
The telephone was said to have no future when it came about. Today, 5 billion handsets are in use worldwide. People prioritize mobile phones over drinking water in many Third World countries.
No-one predicted the arrival of the iPod only one year before it broke loose in an unsuspecting market. Even fewer predicted it was going to revolutionise the economics of music distribution. Likewise, no-one saw the iPhone coming and even fewer forecast the birth of the developers' industry it ignited. And it changed the concept of mobile phone.
Make no mistake, the iPad will have a profound impact on the publishing world. It will bring new players, and smaller, perhaps more creative content creators.
And who predicted the revival of vinyl?
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