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South Korean hardware giant LG has issued a lawsuit against the world's largest contractor for building laptops, Quanta, claiming that they have stolen the design for DVD player components from LG... Read more...
DGP Expresso has reported a constant stream of corporate clients since opening its doors as the multimedia bureau of DGP, the Soho-based DVD and post production facility... Read more...
At the recent meeting of the newly-elected board of the MEDIA-TECH Association, the roles of each of the members was confirmed... Read more...
In the first 11 weeks of the year 13.8% fewer DVD titles have been released than for the comparable period last year, and if the trend holds up, this could be the first year with a decline in total DVD... Read more...
Corel Corporation and NetBlender announced a new partnership to deliver tools for next-generation DVD authoring to the professional market. NetBlender will integrate Corel's PureHD Authoring Multiplexer... Read more...
In a bid to drive sales of DVDs amongst women, 20th Century Fox is embarking on an innovative advertising campaign to launch the In Her Shoes DVD. The campaign will target environments where predominantly... Read more...
James Bond enjoyed various successes at the recent Entertainment Merchants Association's Home Entertainment Awards in Las Vegas. A remastered box set won 'Remastered Title Of The Year', and Casino Royale... Read more...
Toshiba has pushed back the release of its HD DVD next-generation DVD players from March until April to coincide with the release of HD DVD movie titles... Read more...
Philips and Lite-On Digital Solutions have announced a strategic move on the pricing of the internal Lite-On Blu-ray Disc Drive LH-2B1S in Europe, bringing it down to €549 – around €100 below the... Read more...
Malaysian original electronics equipment manufacturer JPK Holdings Bhd will increase the production of DVD players for Sony Corporation Japan to 2.4 million units this year from just below two million... Read more...
The British Video Association announced that June saw significant growth in the sales and rentals of DVDs. Consumers bought 38.5% more DVDs than in June 2006 and they also rented 4.7% more titles... Read more...
New Medium Enterprises (NME) and its strategic partner Beijing E-World Technology (E-World) will announce the commercial launch of their red laser High Definition standard at CeBIT this week. This marks... Read more...
At InterOpto '07 expo, Ricoh showcased a Multiple Format Compatible Plate (MFCP), an optical device that enables the playback of multiple optical disc formats – CD, DVD, Blu-ray, HD DVD – with a single... Read more...
Two of China’s original equipment manufacturer giants, SVA and Shinco, have pledged their support to manufacture EVD-VMD players with HD capabilities at their global facilities. EVD-VMD is a red laser... 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.
