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Sony DADC UK has officially opened its new authoring and post production facility, dramatically increasing the services currently offered across Europe... Read more...
About one in 10 personal computers sold next year will have either a Blu-ray or HD DVD drive built in, claims a Panasonic executive in a recent interview... Read more...
Anwell has announced that CD Video of California has agreed to purchase both BD and HD DVD production systems - an order that was placed after Anwell demonstrated its new BD50 production system, which... Read more...
Blu-ray Disc format supporters have not waited the anticipated Black Friday HD DVD player sales victory data in the US to claim that, in Europe, BD discs grabbed nearly three-quarter of the hidef DVD ... Read more...
The Samsung BD-P1400 is the cheapest Blu-ray player to date. Following in the foot steps of Toshiba’s pricing strategy that sees HD DVD players hit new rock bottom prices with sudden, unannounced sales... Read more...
The Belgian-French packaging specialist BDMO Group, an acknowledged innovator in carton-based solutions, has unveiled new packaging for the Home Entertainment industry “that takes environmental protection... Read more...
More than 15,000 counterfeit DVDs and 30 DVD burners were seized by Birmingham Trading Standards in the UK... Read more...
China has passed into law new programmes to protect intellectual property rights since the 17th Sino-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade in 2006... Read more...
Black Friday supersales have been good for Toshiba-backed next-generation disc format. HD DVD players accounted for 62 percent of all standalone high-definition player sales during Thanksgiving week, ... Read more...
Six of the ten best-seller DVD titles of 2008 in the UK are aimed at the children and family market and account for 63% of the Top 10, according to figures published by the British Video Association. ... Read more...
More DVDs will be bought as gifts this Christmas than in 2006, reveals a survey carried out by the Digital Entertainment Group Europe (DEG Europe), the pan-industry body to promote DVD and HD formats ... Read more...
Half year figures from the British Video Association (BVA) show total DVD sales have risen 3.3 per cent compared with the same period a year ago... Read more...
According to a new study from The Diffusion Group almost one-third of non-HDTV households are interested in buying a high-definition TV set in the next six months, and the majority are leaning towards... Read more...
Shanghai United Optical Disc has completed the installation of its first disc production line for CBHD (China Blue High-Definition Disc), China's high-definition optical disc format mostly based on the... Read more...
Last year across the USA, Japan and Europe, the annual demand for TV displays grew by 5% in volume terms, resulting in shipments of close to 79m units. According to projections from Understanding & Solutions... Read more...
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) used the SinoCES trade event in China to announce several developments in the establishment of the Blu-ray Disc format within the strategically important Chinese market... 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.
