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Slides for a workshop on how filmmakers can use the Internet (and other new technologies) to market and distribute their work. This is a talk I've been giving at film schools, and most recently, the Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco. Related blog: htt
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How to add a new video Upload the video to www.stage6.com Get the address or stage6-ID to/for the video, copy it into the inputbox above and press watch. If the video starts playing like it should, press the link under the player,
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he Commission unveiled on 9 March a consolidated text of the modernised "Television without Frontiers" Directive. After a first reading in the European Parliament and the Council, there is now broad agreement with the Commission about the future legal fra
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How do you do five movie studio deals without anyone noticing? Zattoo, on the other hand is a service, not a product, and appears to be like NeoKast -- a peer-to-peer distribution system offering live content and promising publishers a 10-fold improvemen
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Caachi allows filmmakers to distribute their films to a world audience for free. Filmmakers can show their films without having to go through the established studio distribution system and Caachi users around the world can watch those films on their compu
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No one has all the elements in place yet: big audience, vast selection, intuitive design, and a simple way to transfer movies onto portable devices and the living room television.But here’s my ranking of the five players that are “most likely to succe
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The paid video download market is a dead end according to a new report by Forrester Research. Forrester estimates that paid video downloads will peak in 2007, generating $279 million in revenue, up from $98 million last year. Instead, advertising models w
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Insgesamt lässt sich zum Thema Distribution festhalten, dass sich die Situation für Mikro-Budget-Produktionen verbessert hat und weiter verbessern wird. E-cinema öffnet die wichtige Primärverwertungsstufe Kino für diese Art Produktionen, wobei
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News Corp is pooling its efforts to show FOX television programming on more than 200 broadcast affiliate web sites, according to a press release sent to us by Fox Interactive Media
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The arrangement starts today; more than 150 titles, including Dirty Dancing, will go up this month. That brings iTunes’ movie library past 400—still a far cry from the numbers available on some other sites, including newly launched Wal-Mart download b
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To those worried about downloading in case they get sued: by our calculations, your chances of getting nailed are way less than your chances of winning the lottery. Don't think twice about it. To all intellectual property landlords: we are aware that O
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Keep in mind, this business model will only work if the rates at BitTorrent-powered content stores are significantly lower than conventional ones. In other words, users aren’t just going to let themselves be ripped off. If they feel they’re getting a
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the all-time total number of legal movie downloads in history is less than the first day's sales of the DVD of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. That really does suck, doesn't it? Here are the Top 10 reasons why the idea of digital downloads o
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But in the film world, Wal-Mart is the only retailer to offer pics from every major studio for sale, though it is missing many indies. And its library is a relatively paltry 3,000 movies and TV shows.In addition, there still isn't a reliable way for consu
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IndiePix is a new e-shop and online service created for the broad independent film community at large. We are a group of home video experts, /information professionals, media arts specialists, and most importantly, committed supporters of independent film
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Vongo offers unlimited movie downloads to your PC for $9.99 a month (USA only) and you can then easily stream these movies from your PC to your Xbox 360. Vongo make it sound pretty easy: "The Xbox 360 will automatically check to see which Windows XP or
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Revenue from legitimate online TV and film downloads worldwide will rise tenfold to $6.3 billion by 2012. The U.S. will account for 65% of this amount, according to a report published by Informa. Stateside sum will rise from $538 million in 2006 to $3.9 b
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HungryFlix.com is operated by people that love independent film and technology. We view the internet as the ideal distribution mechanism for content providers and consumers. Our goal is to provide an effective way to market and distribute independent con
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Moving forward, you’ll see announcements related to BitTorrent being embedded on silicon and on non-PC hardware thanks to the new C codebase we have (based on uTorrent and our protocol extensions).
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Netflix is allowing customers to order movies and stream them on their PCs. Customers will not own the films and will not be able to burn them to a disc or view them on other devices.The digital-delivery service won't cost anything for subs, who will be a
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They’re putting a bunch of the short films screened at the festival on the Sundance website. You’ll be able to watch them there for three months. Feel like buying the movie shorts and downloading them instead? The films will be available on iTunes. Th
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Ob durch neue Kameras oder dauerhafte Speicherung von Telefondaten, ob sichtbar oder im Verborgenen: Immer mehr Informationen über den Einzelnen werden gesammelt, gespeichert und verknüpft. Alles zur Sicherheit der Bürger und zum Vorteil der Konsumente
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Viacom will be brave enough to join Disney on the iTunes store, selling movies from its studio Paramount. But in an effort to not ruffle Wal-Mart and Target’s feathers, the deal will only cover Paramount’s back catalog, including titles such as “For
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Open Media Network, which brings non-commercial and public broadcasting content to viewers via the Internet, today announced that its service is the first to enable consumers to enjoy OMN's higher definition, Internet-downloaded video
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Hollywood studios have approved a new technology and licensing arrangement that should remove a major obstacle consumers now face with burning movies they buy digitally over the Internet onto a DVD that will play everywhere.
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while video download sales made through Apple's iTunes store and other sources will total just $298 million this year, by the end of 2007 the market will grow to $1.5 billion. By 2010, global revenue from online video sales, rentals and subscriptions will
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To launch such a kludgy movie site in 2006-2007 is almost unpardonable. Yes, true to what I expected, Clickstar, the online movie service backed by Morgan Freeman and hype, launched this weekend, and it takes only a few minutes of playing with the site to
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Sony, which has sold more than 20m PSPs worldwide, expects to launch the service in the first quarter of 2007 after tying up deals with online video providers.Crucially for Sony, the service will not require the launch of a new PSP or for consumers to buy
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we are proud to announce the results of IPTV Evangelist's first-annual IPTV Top 50. We would like to thank everyone who participated and to congratulate those whose names adorn our list.
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Sean Carey, executive VP digital services and distribution at Sony Pictures Entertainment said that the service will be provided an amount of content on par with what other players in the digital download space, such as Movielink and CinemaNow, received.
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the DVD Forum gave formal approval to a new type of recordable disc that will accept movies encrypted with CSS, the same copy-protection system used on retail discs, for playback on set-top DVD players, reports Video Business. The step was considered cri
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inDplay helps you quickly find programs and rights availability, saving you time and money with our online rights acquisition and contract management system. Whether you are an independent filmmaker, a rights owner, or a distributor with thousands of titl
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On inDplay's Web site, anyone who owns rights to a video can register as a seller and upload relevant information, from trailer clips to available rights. Buyers representing theaters, DVD, TV, cable, Internet sites, and wireless channels search the onlin
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has received a further $20 million in venture capital investment. BitTorrent plans to launch a video store to enable users to download movies from major Hollywood studios. over 20 film studios and television networks, including 20th Century Fox, MTV Netwo
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ultimately, it's a losing battle since bandwidth is a commodity that's getting cheaper all the time. So the value proposition is much weaker.So net/net, I still love the technology and use it constantly, but there are some major hurdles in trying to comme
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ClickStar is essentially going to try to thread the needle by offering high quality, and often difficult to find content while also removing some of the impediments to an easy rental. Consumers will download movies from ClickStar for rent or purchase on t
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Consumers don't like the idea of having to buy the same product two or three times. Today, when you purchase a DVD, you can play that in your living room, on your laptop while flying cross-country, or in your car's DVD player.
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bundle containing a video download option with purchase of the physical DVD: With the purchase of the physical DVD, the users can also choose from three download options—$1.97 for portable devices, $2.97 for PCs/laptops, and $3.97 for both portable play
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Wal-Mart Stores on Tuesday announced the launch its own video downloads service beginning with an exclusive "Superman Returns" DVD bundle containing a video download option with purchase of the physical DVD.
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Journeyman Pictures is London's leading independent distributor of topical news features, documentaries and footage. We're like an encyclopaedia of the world. Use this web site to preview our latest films, as advertised in 'The Journeyman Weekly', or to s
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As you know, we have been experiencing technical difficulties associated with the extremely high number of downloads from the Video Marketplace service over the past 24 hours. We understand these technical issues have resulted in a very unpleasant experie
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Guba has built a successful platform to download full-length films, as noted in our first post with Bart Myers. The company enjoys the cooperation of major film studios. And, it appears to have figured out digital rights management issues.
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Shows like CSI, South Park and Studio 60 are now available for download via Xbox Live’s marketplace, as previously announced. Also, some download-to-rent movies are available in high definition. Full details and content list follows…
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Sundance award-winning documentary The Corporation has been released for free on BitTorrent. The new torrent download includes a high-quality rip of the master DVD and a 40 minute interview with Joel Bakan, the author of the book and writer of the film. M
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Queues are like a string tied around the finger, or way of sticking a digital PostIt note on something we want to remember. That's a kind of queue: stuff I'd like, but don't necessarily need right now. Look for opportunities to help people create queues.
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1. content consumption on general purpose computers (allowing DRM content to be hacked), 2. the ability to create perfect digital copies and 3. the ease of online distribution. possession of digital content (or a copy of it) has no inherent value, but tha
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While not one of the major US studios, the largest movie studio in India's Bollywood, Rajshri, has just broken the logjam by releasing their new blockbuster film, Vivah, online for rental and in theaters on the same day. Using Brightcove, they were able t
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FIM is going to offer movies and TV shows via its Direct2Drive website. Up until now, the site had been offering downloads of videogames. FIM is selling flicks from its various Fox-owned production companies. Movies will start at $7.99, TV shows at $1.99.
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Lionsgate Entertainment Corp. is “actually in business with 29 entities that are either now or will be engaged in digital delivery of some sort,”Virtually all of this business will not only be accretive but will also result in overall growth in the ho
