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Nearly 90% of UK consumers say DVDs and Blu-ray Discs make a great Christmas present according to a new survey released by the British Video Association, but many people are waiting until this week, when... Read more...
Consumption of legitimate free and paid for online video is on track to exceed 770 billion views across the USA, UK, France and Germany this year, according to a new report from Futuresource Consulting... Read more...
During Black Friday in the US, traffic and spending were up both online and in-stores, reaching historic highs, according to a National Retail Federation survey conducted by BIGresearch over the weekend... Read more...
An anticipated surge in the household penetration of next-generation Internet-connected devices indicates solid consumer interest in new content to experience on these devices, according to a new study... Read more...
Consumer confusion is still prevalent when it comes to 3D products, according to the 3D@Home Consortium. The second year of a Interpret LLC survey of consumers found 54% of respondents didn’t know if... Read more...
Six market traders suspected of producing and selling vast quantities of counterfeit CDs and DVDs were arrested during a series of raids co-ordinated by Greater Manchester Police as part of a wider initiative... Read more...
The Netherlands’ leading 3D company Zero Creative BV has entered into a joint venture with Nirmitha Technology Solutions India, called Zero Creative 3D Solutions Pvt Ltd with new offices in Chennai... Read more...
Are apps becoming the new content? As we are seeing with the explosion of apps and app stores, the invasion of apps onto 'non-tradition' devices such as TVs, and several of the recent offerings from the... Read more...
Paraguay, Ciudad Del Este-located Factory Group, South America’s largest manufacturer and distributor of recordable optical media, burnt down last week causing $30 million worth of damage... Read more...
Augmented Reality is still a new technology and could well fall by the wayside. However, it can revolutionise the way the market for physical products is seen by the buying public. ANDREW ELIA, President... Read more...
Over the first nine months of 2011, French consumers have spent €801.99 million on DVD and Blu-ray discs – down 8.8% over the same period last year, according to the latest CNC-GfK figures. While ... Read more...
Nearly 50% of consumers are using another electronic device while watching TV at home.The most popular reasons for this include combating boredom, needing something else to do and keeping in touch with... Read more...
A no-holds barred conversation with Luke Johnson, Chairman of private equity house Risk Capital Partners Ltd and former Chair of Channel 4, was the highlight of the British Video Association’s Annual... Read more...
The UK government is to amend tax rules that have allowed retailers to avoid paying VAT by sending goods from the Channel Islands. Low Value Consignment Relief (LVCR) will no longer apply to goods sent... Read more...
Based on DEG’s recently-released figures Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment predicts Christmas sales in Europe will deliver the first rise in full year home entertainment spending since 2004... Read more...
LED-backlit TV sets and smart televisions that allow consumers to browse and view shows directly from the Internet have replaced 3D TV as the ‘must have’ features driving television purchases in 2011... 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.
