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Panasonic has submitted a proposal to the Blu-ray Disc Association, for a Blu-ray Disc standard to store three-dimensional (3D) imagery formed of left-/right-eye two-channel full-High Definition images... Read more...
Sony predicted that their Blu-ray format will take over 50 percent of the market by the end of the year. At a recent press conference in Taipei, company president and CEO Ryoji Chubachi revealed the company... Read more...
The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has called on the UK's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to deliver on the promises outlined in the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property on criminal sentencing... Read more...
Professor Min Gu (pictured) and his team at Swinburne University of Technology’s Centre for Micro-Photonics are three years into a $1-million five-year project that is looking at how nanotechnology ... Read more...
A team of researchers at General Electric Global Research has been developing a Holographic Data Storage System which could be available on the market consumer market in 2012... Read more...
One of the main challenges facing Blu-ray, according to the latest ABI Research, is that many consumers are not actually dissatisfied with the quality delivered by their conventional DVD players, when... Read more...
Last week, Disc Technology Center (DTC), the German subsidiary of Danish replicator Dicentia set up to acquire the bankrupt ODS Dassow plant, officially filed for insolvency. Two months ago, MPEG LA had... Read more...
Based in the United Arab Emirates, Falcon Technologies International, a manufacturer of optical data storage discs for professional and archival applications, has entered the US market with the introduction... Read more...
The latest version of Slysoft’s AnyDVD HD software appears to allow users to break the latest version of the Blu-ray's BD+ protection as well as disable the BD-Live features of the latest Blu-ray titles... Read more...
6 April 2008 marks the tenth anniversary of DVD’s launch in the UK. On this date in 1998, reminds the British Viideo Association, Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment (now known as Sony Pictures Home... Read more...
Enterprising movie pirates in China are reported to be taping into the advanced video compression technology of the AVC HD standard to make cheap high resolution copies of titles without resorting to ... Read more...
Universal Pictures UK topped the list of winners at the annual British Video Association Awards, picking up three awards for Marketing Initiatives in Film, Children’s and Special Interest as well winning... Read more...
Responding to industry fear that the financial crisis will not be kind to Blu-ray sales, the Digital Entertainment Group announced a $25 million TV and cinema ad campaign aimed at spreading consumer awareness... Read more...
No-name brands could release their own Blu-ray players to take on the major brands by September, increasing competition and potentially driving prices down further. A number of Chinese factories were ... Read more...
Sonic has announced the release of Scenarist BD Studio, a new cost-effective and full-featured Blu-ray Disc production workgroup designed specifically for authoring facilities looking to kick-start their... Read more...
A German website – www.DVDPlayer.de – sells modified “region-free” versions of the Sony Blu-ray players BDP-S300 and BDP-S500, making it possible to play both Region A (North America, Central ... 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.
