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Digital information and digital technology have become the lifeblood of the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector. This fundamental shift is creating opportunities and, for savvy companies, considerable value. But the move to digital also
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Wie sich Verlage im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung aufstellen müssen beschreibt die akutelle Deloitte-Studie „Herausforderung Media 3.0“. Die Befragung von 40 Entscheidungsträgern führender Verlagshäuser ergab, dass nahezu jeder Verlag über eine d
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204 million rolls of film were sold last year, down 75% from 800 million in 1999, says Katie Hafner in the Times. Stop&Shop just eliminated their film-processing stations at all 300 stores in the northeast. Clobbered Kodak is pursuing the cigarette comp
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The U.K. market for online TV will be worth £181 million ($362 million) by 2011 -- but the growth of movie downloads is expected to be much slower. These are the findings of a survey by Screen Digest, which forecasts that music will continue to dominate
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Shooting digitally can change the filmmaking process itself. After all, the scarcity and price of film is what led to conventions like saying “cut” and “action” — and for that matter, rehearsing. Mel Gibson told Variety how his directing style c
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Cruxy provides powerful marketing, monetization and performance tools for digital creators, whether filmmakers, musicians or artists of any kind. Cruxy’s tools give artists the power to share their work on Cruxy or across the web using the Cruxy Social
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Over 80% of households in the United Kingdom now receive digital television services. That is over twenty million homes. Most of the growth comes from Freeview. Nearly two million digital terrestrial television receivers were sold in the first quarter of
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Fernsehzuschauer und Radiohörer haben künftig die Möglichkeit, deutlich mehr Sendungen und Inhalte der ARD und ihrer Landesrundfunkanstalten unabhängig von Ort und Zeit zu nutzen. So könne beispielsweise ab dem 16. Juli die stündlich aktualisierte 1
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Though what it counts as digital is a broad spectrum, hence that big figure: includes online advertising revenue from sites like ESPN.com and ABC.com, sales from mobile services, e-commerce revenue derived from TV show and movie downloads on Apple iTunes
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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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Welcome to Virtual Digital Cable - The leading provider of cable television on your computer! Subscriber Updates... We're Working For You... We've heard your requests, and we have taken action at the Federal Communications Commission to secure the pro
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Today the absolute dollar growth of our online revenues now exceeds the decline in our print revenues. This occurred in the US in 2006 and in Europe during the last quarter. With this change in the revenue mix and the higher margins from our online busin
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A hope that focusing on producing entertainment that people actually want to watch/view/hear/play can be put off indefinitely, and existing (dwindling) assets harvested instead. For the Express, that asset is a loyal readership and brand equity, both of w
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The Wall Street Journal ran a list today of the ten top-earning films of 2006, noting that four of the ten were computer-animated cartoons.But even those that weren't computer-animated still incorporate a boatload of cutting-edge technology, whether it's
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“This article examines the point of journalistic production in one major news organization and shows how reporters and editors manage constraints of time, space, and market pressure under regimes of convergence news making.”
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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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Digital fingerprinting is attracting an increasing number of companies’ time and money, as we wrote this morning. Attributor is the latest startup to join the space, launching today with a WSJ writeup. We haven’t seen proof that anyone has fingerprin
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Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes music sales rose 84 percent in the first nine months of 2006 from a year earlier, according to a report from ComScore Networks Inc. The number of transactions rose 67 percent and dollars spent per transaction increased 10 perc
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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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Over the next 12 to 18 months, we will see a continuation of large scale fibre announcements from the various incumbent telcos around the globe. Key leaders include the telcos in Japan, Korea, USA, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France and th
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The Netherlands ended transmission of "free to air" analog television Monday, becoming the first nation to switch completely to digital signals. Few Dutch consumers noticed, because the overwhelming majority get TV via cable. Only around 74,000 household
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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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Digital TV leads from one way communication to software-based collaboration. Beyond zapping there are new forms of navigating the TV set: Electronic program guides as equivalent to a portal in the Internet and collaborative recommendation as equivalent to
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2004 wurde das Forschungsprojekt TV2010 ins Leben gerufen. Unter der Leitung von Dr. Helmut Hauptmeier und Dr. Thomas Becker arbeiten verschiedene Medienwissenschaftler an der Erforschung der Folgen der Digitalisierung des Fernsehens in Deutschland.
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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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Secondly, scale for us, and me, doesn’t really mean traffic, or for that matter, scaled revenues...it means influence. The people who cut the checks for everyone else in this industry, including any and all of the consultants writing about this industry
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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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While each of the main media companies defines digital slightly differently, everyone seems comfortable projecting the same revenue: about half a billion dollars. While there's no doubt each of the networks has grounded that figure in reality, the problem
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Universal Pictures Australia and ReelTime Media have launched the major movie download-to-own service that includes secure burn technology. It is also the first major movie download service in Australia and New Zealand, asserts an official release.
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But HBO says it is exploring plans to distribute its programming online—so long as those plans don’t jeopardize its subscription-based business model or its licensing agreements with cable operators, which account for 80% of HBO’s revenue.
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Walt Disney Co. agreed Tuesday to release movies for viewing on pay-per-view television as soon as 15 days after their release on DVD. Some ESPN, Disney Channel and other Disney-controlled cable programming will also be offered for free viewing.
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The economic divide is a non-issue, but the usability and empowerment divides alienate huge population groups who miss out on the Internet's potential. The "digital divide" refers to the fact that certain parts of the population have substantially better
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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
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Classic TV shows including “My Favorite Martian” and “I Spy” are coming to Google Video and other digital platforms. Digital Music Group, until now a company that focused on music libraries, is expanding into TV.
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Nearly 500,000 movies have been sold since Disney became the first movie provider on iTunes. (Iger said earlier that more than 125,000 were sold in the first few days.) About 12 million ABC shows have been sold on iTunes since the launch in October 2005 o
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In terms of the sheer bottom-line impact, it's still relatively small,'' Iger said yesterday in an interview after Burbank, California-based Disney reported that profit doubled last quarter. ``Over the next three to five years we'll be able to monetize at
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Vorstandschef Mathias Döpfner gab am Mittwoch in Berlin die Gründung der Axel Springer Digital TV [ASDTV] bekannt. Als Geschäftsführer wechselt der RTL-Manager Klaus Ebert zum 1. Jänner 2007 zu der neuen Konzerntochter. Sie soll Videoinhalte vor alle
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wurden im Vorfeld der CeBIT 2004 knapp 700 Internetnutzer im Rahmen einer Onlinebefragung um ihre Meinung zur Zukunft des Fernsehens gebeten. Das Ergebnis: Ja zum technologischen Fortschritt. Nein zu technischen Spielereien ohne konkreten Nutzwert.
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TV extended online. While those are certainly important components, they shouldn’t limit new ideas. You should ask yourself, what does the user (not viewer) want and need? What online opportunities are available in your market in local news, information
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while d-cinema networks are being set up around the world, progress is slow "compared to what's happening on the Web," in part because companies are still "trying to use the traditional producer/distributor/exhibitor model when they need to reinvent thems
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Just over 70% of households in the United Kingdom now receive digital television — a total of 17.7 million homes.Analogue terrestrial reception still accounts for 57% of all television sets, which represents a challenge for digital switchover, or an opp
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Das Geschäft mit den Film-Downloads im Internet blüht: In Westeuropa sind die Umsätze von 10 Mio Euro in 2005 auf 690 Mio Euro in 2010 gesteigen. Deutschen 2010 rund 87 Mio Euro für das Downloaden und Streamen von Filmen ausgeben.
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Analysts expect NBC’s digital initiatives to generate $1bn in revenues by 2009, up from $200m this year, and to generate margins of 35 to 40 per cent.
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fidelity/convenience ist ein Möglichkeit zukünftige Entwicklungen vorrauszusagen. Fidelity (Wiedergabequalität) und Convenience (Gemütlichkeit, Kosten usw) beeinflussen das Konsumentenverhalten enorm.
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Die Unterhaltungselektronik Branche ist nun unterwegs um die Trends run um YouTube zu Kommerzialisieren. Dazu werden bessere Kameras und Editing tools entwickelt, die den Produktionen zu mehr Production Values verhelfen sollen.
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Wenn Google und Apple zusammenarbeiten bekommen eine Menge Leute Kopfschmerzen. 1. Microsoft wg. Musiksuche geht zu Apple -> Apple pusht Google Video und beide Kooperieren bei den Downloads
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Die Hollywood Gewerkschaften halten noch die Füße still, wenn es um die digitalen Distributionsformen über das Internet geht, das könnte sich nächstes jahr bei den Verhandlungen stark ändern.
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BBC digital budget increase from GBP 250m to GBP 400m and his staff from 850 to 1,500. BBC will das Archiv mit 1.2 Mio/Std Video frei zugänglich machen. Außerdem eine digitale Strategie fahren um mit Google, Microsoft usw mithalten zu können.
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Die Kunden die sowohl eine Kableanscluss als auch einnen Warner Breitbandanschluss haben können ihre Videos und Bilder hochlanden. Diese werden von Warner gescreent und aschließend über einen digitalen VOD bereitgestelllt.
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Also, LGF owns 21 percent of CinemaNow, and LGF president Steve Beeks said on the call: In the month of July alone, after Cinema Now announced download-to-burn, it achieved nearly as many buys as in the previous three months combined.
