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Back in September, Bradford-based wewow launched a unique media packaging design competition seeking to promoting creative, sustainable design to students, graduates and designers. The company have just... Read more...
Technicolor, formerly known as Thomson SA, posted a full-year net loss of €342 million on revenue that fell 14% to €3.53 billion, as the company emerges from bankruptcy protection and continues a ... Read more...
Michael Gutowski, CEO of Infodisc Technology GmbH, and Frank Hartwig, CEO of Cinram GmbH, were elected as new members of the MEDIA-TECH Association’s Executive Board at the Annual Members' meeting held... Read more...
Demonstrations of the transmission of ultra-high definition (UHD) content over broadband and satellite networks at the IBC 2008 kicked off speculation about the time frame for the possible commercialization... Read more...
Saudi Arabia may jail its first DVD pirate in a clampdown by the information ministry that may signals the start of a copyright protection era. The decision is under review at Saudi Arabia’s board of... Read more...
Disney's release of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea was awarded the Grand Prix at the second annual Blu-ray Awards established by the Digital Entertainment Group... Read more...
Samsung is reported to be introducing, in Japan, the first smartphone featuring video codec DivX. This is in the wake of an announcement by South Korea’s Pantec, back in July of last year, of a mobile... Read more...
Global 3D television shipments will soar to 78 million units by 2015, rising at a compound annual growth rate of 80% from 4.2 million in 2010, iSuppli predicts. Revenue from shipments of these sets will... Read more...
According to preliminary figures released by the Singulus Technologies Group, the German optical disc replication line manufacturer achieved sales of €116.4 million in the financial year 2009. Singulus... Read more...
Thousands of TV programmes, catch-up TV video-on-demand archives, internet-TV services, video-sharing platforms and personal content currently compete for audiences. With such a huge range of content, ... Read more...
Canadian replicator Cinram recorded revenue of $508.1 million in the fourth quarter 2009, a decrease of 9% from the $556.8 million reported in the fourth quarter of 2008. Despite this reduction in revenue... Read more...
An audacious fake DVD gang who kept supermarket-type shelves of the latest Hollywood and Bollywood blockbusters, has been smashed in Birmingham, England, acting on intelligence from the Federation Against... Read more...
Germany’s Dusseldorf Appeals Court recently issued its decision dismissing all 12 appeals filed by Greek DVD Video disc replicator Digital Press Hellas S.A., formerly known as Odeon Cineplex S.A... Read more...
Within four years, 50% of US homes will own a 3D-Ready display, and the uptake of 3D–Ready Blu-ray players won’t be far behind, with one out of every three US homes owning one, according to Futuresource... Read more...
Leading London-based digital media and post-production facility Eyeframe has acquired DVD and Blu-ray authoring specialist Picture Production Company (PPC) through merger... Read more...
The German authoring-to-replication Infodisc Holding extended its global network by establishing a Hong Kong subsidiary, Infodisc Asia Ltd, with the goal of strengthening the Blu-ray format in Asia and... 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.
