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Collaboration between Axel Springer, the European Publishers Council, the Danish Producers Association, the UK's ITV, Microsoft, News International and the RTL Group, under the umbrella of the Linked ... Read more...
The UK film, TV, video and music industries have joined forces with internet safety charity, Childnet International, to launch a campaign to provide clarity for parents and teachers when it comes to accessing... Read more...
Plants of independent, third-generation family-owned Vinyl/CD/DVD replicator Pallas, located at Diepholz (Lower Saxony), was destroyed by fire on Sunday night... Read more...
Hannover-based Entertainment Distribution Company GmbH is to manufacture DVD and Blu-ray discs for the feature film releases of SES Limited's world number 1 sports entertainment brand, World Wrestling... Read more...
Leading DVD production and distribution specialist Odeon Entertainment Group has signed up Sony DADC to service its entire supply chain management for the UK and export markets. The multi-year agreement... Read more...
Building on its flagship consumer education campaign, the Industry Trust for IP Awareness is joining force with Walt Disney Studios UK to launch a unique IRON MAN 3 trailer that celebrates the value of... Read more...
The Danish video market has shrunk by a third in value since 2007, the result of declining DVD sales and lower Blu-ray Disc (BD) sales exaggerated by steep declines in video rental. TONY GUNNARSSON, video... Read more...
Stung by plunging sales in Japan and declining demand in North America and Western Europe, global television shipments in 2012 fell, marking a major inflection point that will have a lasting impact on... Read more...
Reports of the demise of DVD are exaggerated if one goes by the assessment of Eric Wold, media specialist at investment bank B. Riley & Co. Taking a hard look at the profitability of various content distribution... Read more...
Revenue of the global consumer electronics device industry fell by 2% in 2012 to $729 billion, as the strength in smartphones and tablets were not able to offset broad-based softness in consumer demand... Read more...
While Hilco is reported to be the only bidder for the remaining British outlets of bankrupt HMV chain, the name will survive and even strive on the other side of the globe where CDs and DVDs, whose sales... Read more...
Consumers are watching an enormous amount of video, but in some surprising ways and in unexpected places, reveals Motorola Mobility's Fourth Annual Media Engagement Barometer. The study examines... Read more...
Six UK Internet service providers - Sky, Virgin Media, BT, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 - have been ordered by Britain's high court to block access to three movie file-sharing and music websites... Read more...
Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA have developed a technique that uses a DVD burner to fabricate micro-scale graphene-based supercapacitors - devices that can charge and discharge... Read more...
Without fanfare, the DVD/Internet movie-rental company Netflix announced it shipped its 4 billionth disc on early January. The milestone was only signaled on the disc mailers: "We ship emotions - 4 Billion... Read more...
Quality assurance testing and certification facility BluFocus has partnered with Sony Creative Software to offer its testing services to support their DoStudio Blu-ray Disc authoring platform... Read more...
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Even though our website activities were on the back burner for over a year while we reshaped our operations, professionals from nearly 50 countries have kept logging in to tap into fifteen years of archives that uniquely chronicle the birth, the life, but not yet the death, of packaged media.
Though our service brief has been including coverage of new content delivery channels for several years, there is still enough activity on the DVD and Blu-ray Disc front – globally – on which to focus our reporting energy, especially as 4K UHD seems to be gathering pace.
While our company, Globalcom Ltd, remains based in the UK, we are running the website afresh from South Korea! Always looking for new challenges and a desire to share widely the knowledge gained, I took up a faculty position at Hannam University’s Linton School of Global Business (in Daejeon) where I teach globalization and communication technology courses.
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TECHNICOLOR has posted its results for the full year 2016. Group revenues increased by 34.8% at constant currency, reflecting the change in scale of Connected Home and Entertainment Services. The two segments combined recorded revenue growth of 48.2% year-on-year at constant rate resulting from the contribution of the acquisitions completed in 2015 and double digit organic growth in Production Services activities.
VODAFONE SPAIN is launching a new 4K TV service with 5 TV channels (10 by year end ) and VoD content for subscribers with convergent packages, like Vodafone One. The five new channels are Odisea 4K, Festival 4K, FunBox UHD, Insight TV and Slow Channel – and one 4K transmission of the best football match of La Liga every week. The company will be the first in the country to offer 4K VoD content with 850 titles including films, TV series and documentaries.
APPLE will make its first forays into original content in the “next few months”, according to Eddy Cue, the company’s SVP of internet software and services. Speaking at the Code Media conference in California, Cue revealed that Carpool Karaoke and Planet Of The Apps will become available “in most countries in the world” on Apple TV. Mac and iOS devices as part of Apple Music, the company’s subscription music offering.
MPEG LA ANNOUNCED that several patent owners in MPEG LA’s AVC Patent Portfolio License have filed patent enforcement actions in the Landgericht Düsseldorf, Germany, against both Huawei Technologies Deutschland GmbH and ZTE Deutschland GmbH for infringing patents essential to the AVC/H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10) digital video coding standard used in mobile devices and other products. According to the complaints, Huawei and ZTE offer mobile phone products in Germany, which use patent-protected AVC methods without licenses with the individual patent holders or a portfolio license that includes these patents offered by MPEG LA. The suits seek monetary damages and injunctions.
DELUXE is to close its UK restoration operation at the end of March with the potential loss of 12 jobs.Recent projects worked on include the nine surviving silent Alfred Hitchcock films for the BFI. In 2015, the department won the Best Archive Restoration award at the 2015 Focal International Awards for its work on Camera Obscura: The Walerian Borowczyk Collection for Arrow Films. The division was formed in 2011 through the merger of Deluxe Digital London (DDL) and Deluxe 142’s restoration operations following Deluxe’s acquisition of Ascent Media. Deluxe said it would maintain its restoration facilities in Madrid, Spain and Los Angeles, US.
MOBILE and desktop video consumption are running virtually neck-and-neck, with 86% of consumers saying they watch video on smartphones and other mobile devices, compared to 70% on desktops, AOL found in a fresh study that tracked usage trends across seven global regions. Additionally, 57% of consumers watch videos on a mobile phone every day, compared to 58% on desktops and laptops.
