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QOL, Europe's first independent Blu-ray manufacturer, is adapting to France's fast-changing market conditions with the introduction of new services, micro-édition, in particular. In a candid conversation... Read more...
The French Mediterranean city of Cannes will begin experimenting with 3D in four primary schools, where 120 pupils of age 9 and 10 will use 3D as a new learning tool in the classroom. The 'Cannes 3D Education... Read more...
Students want better education about intellectual property (IP) to help them with their future careers as fewer than half (40%) of students consider their current understanding of IP to be enough according... Read more...
With the compelling attraction of Team GB's performance in the Olympics and Paralympics over, the British Video Association's latest report on the UK video market - worth £1.3 billion year to date... Read more...
Cleveland, Ohio's Case Western Reserve University physics professor and his graduate student have launched a company aimed at making an optical disc that holds 1 to 2 terabytes of data - the equivalent... Read more...
Global consumer electronics original equipment manufacturer (OEM) revenues this year will rise to $361 billion, up from $356 billion in 2011, according to the IHS iSuppli Home and Consumer Electronics... Read more...
The joint DVD patent licensing programme company One-Red LLC has announced the creation of a new licensing programme for DVD software and DVD PC manufacturers... Read more...
It is not enough to leave cloud-based digital video download in the hands of technologists. Content creators and vendors alike must deliver the promise of home entertainment and keep it simple for all... Read more...
At MIPCOM this week, representatives from the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) announced a roadmap for the international deployment of their cloud-based digital video access system UltraViolet... Read more...
Twentieth Century Fox Nordic has chosen not to release a stand-alone DVD copy of the title Prometheus in three Northern European markets - Sweden, Denmark and Finland, observes IHS Screen Digest... Read more...
A producer of compact storage devices, Verbatim has launched a Blu-ray disc to run on BDXL-compatible readers and writers with 100 GB of super-storage capacity - four times higher than the storage on ... Read more...
BBC Worldwide Consumer Products (formerly 2entertain will release its first UltraViolet-enabled DVD and Blu-ray titles in the UK in time for Christmas 2012. Both the DVD and Blu-ray for each title will... Read more...
Be@reative powered by ScreenThing, a nationwide schools competition which tasks pupils aged 11 to 19 with a real-life advertising brief to tackle the challenge of copyright infringement, launched last... Read more...
Despite some high-profile product introductions, consumer demand for televisions with the ultra-high-definition 4K resolution will remain negligible for the foreseeable future, with shipments never accounting... Read more...
The International 3D Society & 3D@Home - two organisations with a combined membership of 60 companies and 500 professionals that merged in August - released trends and forecast for key segments of the... Read more...
The US Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus has added Switzerland and Italy on its 2012 watchlist of countries with 'copyright piracy problems.' They join China, Russia and Ukraine. "The lack... 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.
