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The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), led by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), has joined together with the FBI and... Read more...
German disc replication line maker Singulus technologies recorded new orders for Blu-ray Disc production machines from Germany for the first four months of 2012. Independent German and European movie ... Read more...
The record-breaking box office success of The Avengers, in large part due to higher-priced 3D tickets, will increase consumer demand for access to 3D movies at home, according to analysts at Parks... Read more...
Dolby Laboratories has released the Dolby TrueHD coding solution to provide studios, authoring houses, and mastering facilities with the capability of enhancing the playback performance of lossless audio... Read more...
Toronto-based globa replicator Cinram recorded consolidated revenue of $167.6 million in the 2012 first quarter compared to $176.7 million in the first quarter of 2011. Revenue from the Pre-recorded Multimedia... Read more...
The best of British talent and skills was honoured at the British Video Association's Annual Awards ceremony in Old Billingsgate, London, on Thursday. In the year that Britain hosts the Olympic Games ... Read more...
Creative industry practitioners from The Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Germany and Ireland have already signed up to join their British counterparts at the forthcoming London Video Rendezvous on 18... Read more...
In the wake of China's record-breaking box-office opening of Titanic 3D, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Sony have announced an exclusive, large-scale bundling partnership for the ... Read more...
When all is said about the popularity of Smart TV, GfK analysts expect 3DTVs to witness the highest growth rate - 122% - this year in Europe in the television product category. Smart TVs come in second... Read more...
US consumers spent a total of $4.45bn on home entertainment in the first quarter of 2012 - a 2.47% rise over the same period last year, according to the latest figures from The Digital Entertainment Group... Read more...
Despite the British economy falling back into recession, the video entertainment market remained steady in the first quarter of 2012, according to the British Video Association's latest announcement... Read more...
Executives from news media, publishing, TV, film, music, IT and Internet media businesses have teamed up with existing standards and licensing organisations to work in coalition on a cross-media global... Read more...
Entertainment Distribution Company, Europe's largest independent CD and DVD replicator, is expanding its offering with the introduction of Blu-ray. The company has invested in a state-of-the-art Singulus... Read more...
In the run-up for the French presidential election, the video publishers' association SEVN had submitted to the candidates five proposals aimed at defending and strengthening their market... Read more...
Games platform Xbox LIVE has joined the film and TV industry body Industry Trust for IP Awareness as it launches a month-long pro-copyright Moments Worth Paying For campaign to 16-24 year-old males... Read more...
European broadcasting is today an €84 billion sector, and commercial broadcasters contribute €15 billion annually by investing in programme content in the digital economy, according to a new... 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.
