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The 36,000-member American Optometric Association (AOA) announced a partnership with the 3D@Home Consortium, a group of more than 45 companies, to improve the understanding of 3D stereoscopic viewing “... Read more...
Prasad Group, India’s leading post-production services provider, has entered into a licensing and know-how transfer agreement with German technology company imcube labs to provide advanced solutions... Read more...
But online and mobile delivery of video, music and games is increasing. Consumers spend more on Pay TV services than any other entertainment sector, according to IHS Screen Digest. TONY GUNNARSSON and... Read more...
Researchers at Berlin’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute send data at a speed of 10.2 Terabit per second over fiber optics, the equivalent of 240 DVDs per second – a world record in serial data... Read more...
Global packaged media manufacturer and distributor Cinram has been appointed by Wm Morrisons Supermarkets as sole provider of storage and distribution services for the music, video and games categories... Read more...
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Sony DADC Creative Services has supported the European launch of movieIQ for the French independent producer / distributor, Europa Corp, on L’homme qui voulait vivre sa vie (The Big Picture... Read more...
Prague-based digital service company Brickbox Digital Media, a member of the KIT group, released the first multi-territory stereoscopic 3D BD – Piranha 3D – the latest action thriller by ... Read more...
3D broadcasters will play a key role in offering much needed content and in educating consumers about the technology. 3D for the home continues to gain traction in key markets, with nearly 15 million ... Read more...
German researchers at the Institute for Telecommunications Systems at Technische Universität Berlin have been hard at work on advanced 2D-to-3D conversion technologies that produce high-quality results... Read more...
Is there enough 3D content in the pipeline being produced to satisfy the market's appetite? Is 3D the preserve of Hollywood studios or is it within the reach of independents? Is 3D only for blockbusters... Read more...
In a world’s first, French company Volfoni is demonstrating at CeBIT in Hanover a new generation of “intelligence” 3D glasses – ActiveEyes – based on an hybrid active/passive technology that... Read more...
US adult publisher Penthouse launched yesterday Penthouse 3D, the first pan-European 3D-formatted adult channel. It will feature 100% full 3D native HD, 30 hours of updated content monthly and programming... Read more...
At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, LG unveiled the Optimus 3D, the world’s first 3D smartphone. The South Korean giant also announced a partnership with YouTube to enable users to ... Read more...
The UK audiovisual industry launches an "emotionally explosive" education campaign that aims to win hearts and minds on copyright and creativity. The new campaign seeks to address the continued challenge... Read more...
Envisional was commissioned by NBC Universal to analyse bandwidth usage across the internet with the specific aim of assessing how much of that usage infringed upon copyright... Read more...
The Pavement, a leading digital media and motion graphics production house, has completed Lovers Guide 3D – Igniting the Fire, the first UK-commissioned and produced 3D Blu-ray title released... 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.
