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US retail giant Wal-Mart's decision last Friday to stop offering HD DVD movies was the last straw that led Toshiba to stop production of HD DVD equipment, effectively throwing the towel on the high-definition... Read more...
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) will soon announce plans for future support of 3D home entertainment technology as Hollywood studios and electronics manufacturers are keen to establish industry wide... Read more...
Universal Pictures and Paramount, the last two Hollywood studios to have committed to HD DVD, are reported to be about to join the Blu-ray bandwagon in the wake of Toshiba’s HD DVD pullout announcement... Read more...
Disc packaging supplier Key Solutions has extended its range of wood, cardboard and leather packs with a Blu-ray range by adapting the company’s patented starmetalpak to the Blu-ray size... Read more...
The number of countries from which visitors logged in www.dvd-intelligence.com reached 105 last month. Going live four years ago, the site is now attracting a monthly average of 17,500 industry visitors... Read more...
DVDs coated with a layer of genetically-altered microbe proteins could one day hold terabytes of information, says a US-based researcher, reporting his findings at the International Conference on Nanoscience... Read more...
Although CMC Magnetics, the largest Taiwan-based OEM maker of blank optical discs, has raised its OEM price quotes for CD-R and DVD+R/-R discs by 10% on average and other manufacturers in Taiwan have ... Read more...
Worldwide online video revenue is expected to shoot to $4.5 billion by 2012, up from $1.2 billion in 2008, forecasts high-tech market research firm In-Stat... Read more...
Global disc replicator Cinram has reported second quarter 2008 revenues of $412.8 million, up from $345.1 million in 2007. Though earnings before interest, taxes and amortization (EBITA) were $33.3 million... Read more...
Nico Hofmann, CEO of major production house TeamWorx (Dresden, The Airlift, The Storm Surge), and dubbed Germany’s King of TV movies, will be the opening keynote speaker at Video Entertainment 2008, ... Read more...
UK-based print and package maker St Ives Music and Multimedia, part of St Ives plc, has created 100% biodegradable and recyclable packaging for Warner Bros' The 11th Hour DVD documentary to match the ... Read more...
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Replication equipment manufacturer Singulus has recorded a 47% increase of orders in its books during the first quarter of this year, rising to 67% in the second quarter, compared to the respective 2007... Read more...
The music industry has transformed its business models, offering consumers an increasing range of new services with leading technology partners. Yet, the IFPI’s latest report notes, generating value... 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.
