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Technicolor has teamed with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to launch an interactive Sons of Anarchy application, enabled by Technicolor’s MediaEcho application feature set... Read more...
Toronto-headquartered optical disc replicator Cinram reported consolidated revenue of $209.2 million in the third quarter of 2011 exceeding Q2 2011 revenues of $147.5 million – an increase of $61.7 ... Read more...
Several Taiwanese manufacturers, including Ritek, CMC Magnetics, and Gigastorage, are expected to benefit from TDK’s streamlining of Blu-ray disc employee number and capacity cut, as well as transferring... Read more...
Digital publisher Andrews UK has released the world’s first 3D video eBook on Apple’s iBookstore – A Dream of Christmas 3D (Enhanced Version). The company has achieved this by including... Read more...
The Digital Entertainment Group’s 3rd quarter 2011 figures reveal that home entertainment spending rose 5% - the first increase since 2008’s first quarter when recession was taking hold. The number... Read more...
Woes in the home entertainment market continue, largely as a result of consumer reluctance to spend with entertainment retailers, say analysts at Verdict Research in a new report on the Global Home Entertainment... Read more...
Under the DEG umbrella, Hollywood studios and consumer electronics manufacturers have engaged in a massive promotion of Blu-ray discs on Facebook with the “Win Big with Blu-ray” campaign... Read more...
Industry data put to more than $10 billion the value of company property stolen by workers at manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and warehouses worldwide. An unnamed global manufacturer of... Read more...
In the third quarter of 2011, Technicolor’s Group revenues from continuing operations amounted to €837 million, down 9.0% at current currency and down 7.4% at constant currency compared to the third... Read more...
Print and packaging solutions provider AGI has scooped two awards at the recent UK PrintWeek Award Ceremony, which celebrated the best work from print’s most creative companies. In addition to retaining... Read more...
The Industry Trust for IP Awareness and Warner Bros. Pictures UK will release a unique Happy Feet Two trailer that promotes the value of the movie experience while addressing the continued challenge... Read more...
Among many governments, NGOs and businesses, there is general agreement that counterfeiting and other commercial intellectual property rights infringements are wrong. The hard question is what to do about... Read more...
In view of the launch of the cloud-based UltraViolet storage and access solution for movies, a new survey unveils pointers as to the current behaviour of British users of cloud computing services. Two... Read more...
In a research on the availability of films online, campaigning organisation Open Rights Group found a dysfunctional marketplace that leaves consumers with the digital equivalent of empty shelves. Evidence... Read more...
At the annual German Amazon Vendor Days, the online retailer awarded the coveted Golden Pallet to two companies – games supplier ActivisionBlizzard and Universal Music Germany – for which Entertainment... Read more...
Singulus Technologies reports increasing sales and earnings figures for its optical discs manufacturing equipment division. Orders for Blu-ray production lines went up more than expected owing to a healthy... 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.
