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Joint event with Colonial Purchasing, AIMMA, and the MEDIA-TECH Association
The Packaged Media and Beyond Conference will be a must-attend event for anyone who is trying to navigate physical media through this ever-changing media landscape.
Digital media has become a part of consumer’s daily lives and they have become accustomed to viewing content and connecting with people wherever and whenever they want. As consumer media usage evolves, traditional media manufacturers are also transforming their business models. The Packaged Media and Beyond conference program is designed to deliver sessions to help replicators and duplicators find new revenue streams and avenues in the new media marketplace.
For two exciting days in amazing Las Vegas the MEDIA-TECH Association, AIMMA, and the Colonial Purchasing Cooperative are joining forces to bring together their vision, passion, and expertise, to share their ideas, to discuss latest trends and to focus beyond packaged media manufacturing.
If you care about what the post-convergence TV experience looks like and how it should be delivered, and which stakeholders could win or lose from the growing propensity to watch TV through multiple connected devices, there is one event you should not miss in 2012: The Connected TV Summit.
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The MEDIA-TECH Association is welcoming the Media & Storage Industry to take part in a 1.5-day event.
The MEDIA-TECH Conference Europe will feature all of the key players within the Packaged Media market and will look at the current marketplace and future business models. The event will discuss all aspects of Blu-ray technology to redefine the link between physical and digital media.
The premise behind DCM East is simple: to help media & entertainment experts improve processes, build audiences, create relationships…in short, anything which enables you to monetize your digital content.
DCM is designed to bring you closer to the projects that are making waves at the forefront of content monetization.
Navigate the complex maze of devices, multiple platforms, new partnerships and cutting edge technologies. The DCM East agenda covers all aspects of content monetization.
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Catch the latest Developments of Blu-ray!
The event will center on Blu-ray Discs, the influence of 3D and the technological developments of Recordable & Rewriteable Blu-ray (BD-R / BD-RE).
The MEDIA-TECH Conference Asia 2012 will live up to its theme of ‘Connecting the World of Storage Technology’ by being the international event in Asia to drive media manufacturing business and technology forward.
Prerecorded, Recordable & Rewriteable Blu-ray (BD-R / BD-RE) are the key topics of the MEDIATECH.
Taiwanese Speakers from the industry and International Speakers as well as MEDIA-TECH Association members will provide the latest information about the trends, developments of Blu-ray and the optical disc industry.
Emap Connect is the UK’s leading organiser of trade exhibitions. EMAP Connect brings more than 200,000 decision makers together and many millions of pounds worth of business is conducted every year at these leading shows. Connect exhibitions provide vital buying platforms, education and networking opportunities for the retail, fashion, health, education and built environment sectors. Emap Connect is headed up by Malcolm Gough.
Deliver a robust second screen strategy to increase usability, secure delivery and avoid fragmentation across multiple devices
The major content owners, broadcasters, pay TV operators, technology vendors, OTT providers, telcos, service providers and OEMs come together to establish their role in the multi-screen revolution! Be at the heart of this new TV era and concrete your strategy
If you haven’t signed up for DCM Europe yet - what are you waiting for? The agenda looks great, there are tons of new features such as the Start Up Showcase and the sooner you sign up, the sooner you can log into our meetings facilitator to see who’s there and arrange to meet them at the event.
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the owner and producer of the International CES. CEA is the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the $186 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry. More than 2,000 companies enjoy the benefits of CEA membership, including legislative advocacy, market research, technical training and education, industry promotion, standards development and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. All profits from CES are reinvested into CEA’s industry services. Find CEA online at CE.org and Innovation-Movement.com.
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Variety magazine and CDSA, the International Content Security Association, announce the return of the Content Protection Summit 2011 on Dec. 8 at the Universal Hilton in Universal City, California. The industry’s largest and most influential gathering of executives from across entertainment will deliver an update on the global environment of piracy, cyber-attack and showcase how content holders are grasping the challenge as an opportunity with the launch of new, disruptive business models, and remarkable innovation.
Find out at Blu-Tech, a new technology Summit for Blu-ray developers, technologists, marketers and producers that will feature exclusive, expert presentations about tech developments with the Bluray format. What are the new efficiencies in workflow/production schedules and the advances in hardware/software that will drive the format’s continued evolution, while expanding consumer focus on new opportunities for packaged media?
Second screening is the new way to consume broadcast content, with companies beginning to look at ways to control the way consumers second screen - and how to make money out of it. George Cole provides an overview of this 21st century viewing trend.
Second screen is making waves in the broadcast, social media and video worlds. In essence, second screen involves using a second display device, like a smartphone, laptop or tablet, while watching television. Many people are now second screening: research by Nielsen found that 70% of tablet users and 68% of smartphone owners used their device while watching television. “There are a lot of stats that show that a very large percentage of people who watch TV are doing it with a second screen on their lap,” says Chuck Parker, former Chief Commercial Officer of Technicolor.
Fingerprinting or watermarking? Is there a difference and does it make a difference? Anti-piracy specialist Richard Atkinson explains what they are and how they work but, most of all, why they are important for content management – and leveraging it for monetization – as much as content protection.
In comparing watermarking and fingerprinting, some aspects are similar and some are different. But, more importantly, as they continue to evolve, those differences are becoming less important. The main issue will be how it is used, because the business is driving things: it’s not just about content protection anymore, but about content leverage. With these capabilities, I can know exactly what the content is (whether there’s a mark in it or whether there’s metadata about it)...and leverage that knowledge in real-time.
Following the best Christmas sales ever for Amazon.com’s Kindle devices, the total e-reader category is expected to once again deliver double-digit growth this year, Jill Bilzi learns, as she looks at how it continues to revolutionize the publishing industry and forever change ‘books’ as we know them.
The exploding demand for digital reading devices and downloaded e- books during the fourth quarter of 2011 brought a flurry of news among the leading suppliers in the market.
Music on CD dead? Not so, say the fans - retro continues to be cool and collectors continue to collect. Debbie Galante Block talks to designers and artists who listen to fans and give them what they want in terms of desirable physical media.
Like vinyl, music packaging was scaled back by major record labels way before consumers were ready to let it go. Also, like vinyl, it’s back! With the advent of digital music, it originally seemed that designers were doomed to designing postage size pictures for iTunes, but artists and their true fans have clamoured for more.
The concept of the interactive documentary as something controlled by the producer is changing, as Michael Mascioni reveals.
Interactive documentaries have traditionally been conceived as a genre allowing users to select and explore different informational segments, elements, and themes in a framework largely circumscribed by the producers. Now, that concept is expanding significantly with the rise of ‘collaborative documentaries’ that have adopted crowdsourcing elements and extensive use of user-generated content.
