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At its annual meeting in Germany yesterday, the MEDIA-TECH Association elected Doug Franzen, President of Colonial Purchasing Co-Op, to the Executive Board "in order to bring a broader range of opinions... Read more...
Austria's kdg mediatech, which provides media services throughout Europe, has now become the first independent company in the sector to have obtained certification for the entire BD manufacturing process... Read more...
Sony DADC has appointed Rajat Kakar as Business Head of Home Entertainment Services of its state-of-the-art manufacturing operations the global replicator opened in Navi Mumbai, India, two years ago... Read more...
That, in a nutshell, is the message that came loud and clear from the recent consumer research Rovi conducted. "In 300 interviews and 70 3-hour in-home sessions spanning the United States, Canada, Germany... Read more...
Figures released today by the British Video Association signal that Blu-ray Discs are set to be a Christmas favourite, as the number of DVD shoppers who trade up to Blu-ray Disc are expected to double... Read more...
The Industry Trust for IP Awareness' Moments Worth Paying For campaign is inspiring film fans to play fair, according to new research unveiled by Nicola Pearcey, Managing Director, Home Entertainment... Read more...
Key global stakeholders in the creative industries have launched the Linked Content Coalition (LCC) - an initiative aimed to facilitate the more effective management of digital content rights on the internet... Read more...
Some 47% of users in the UK cannot confidently identify whether the online content they download, stream or share is legal or not. However, one in six people online believed they downloaded or accessed... Read more...
"Not until they come without glasses" is a common objection to buying a 3D TV. So, how likely are auto-stereoscopic 3D screens to become available in the foreseeable future at mass-market prices? BILL... Read more...
John Whittingdale MP, Chair of the Culture, Media and Sports Select Committee, addressed 150 industry leaders at the British Video Association's 32nd Annual General Meeting in London last week. He stressed... Read more...
During the first nine months of the current business year, Singulus Technologies, the leading manufacturer of Blu-ray lines, recorded sales of €83.5 million, a substantial fall from the €121... Read more...
PrimeDisc Marketing Limited and Bestdisc Technology Corporation, have joined the One-Blue Blu-Ray Disc product licensing programme as licensees. PrimeDisc Marketing and Bestdisc Technology signed BD ROM... Read more...
The global standalone Blu-ray Disc player market is projected to grow 19% in 2012, with an installed base to hit the 100 million unit mark as consumers continue to migrate from DVD to Blu-ray, according... Read more...
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... Read more...
The Content Map, a comprehensive portal for British digital content services, has been launched to encourage UK online consumers to explore more than 150 authorised websites and platforms offering films... Read more...
Blu-ray Discs, electronic sell-through (EST), and video-on-demand (VOD) - three of the industry's highest growth margin areas - all saw material increases in the third quarter in the US, according to ... 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.
