22/02/2012 - IK and Audible Magic in second screen alliance
22/02/2012 - DVD6C wins arbitration award for player royalties
22/02/2012 - Savtira announces key partnerships
22/02/2012 - D2D appoints new publisher
16/02/2012 - D2D unveils new logo and new look
16/02/2012 - Chuck Parker provides Second Screen insights for D2D
16/02/2012 - IP-delivered video up with a vengeance
15/02/2012 - 3D or not 3D?
15/02/2012 - Book pirates shut down
15/02/2012 - Macca on MINTpack
15/02/2012 - DMS celebrates one year of The Big Picture
14/02/2012 - CONTENT LEVERAGE - Not just content protection
14/02/2012 - CD PACKAGING - Back with a twist!
13/02/2012 - Connected TV solution from Screen Subtitling
13/02/2012 - MANAGED COPY AND (LACK OF) SUCCESS
13/02/2012 - EMI: UNLEASHING BACK CATALOGUE REVENUE POTENTIAL
08/02/2012 - THIN AND SMART - summing up this year’s CES
08/02/2012 - Cloudy with no chance of paying?
07/02/2012 - Corel acquires Roxio from Rovi
07/02/2012 - IF THEY WANT COFFINS - give them coffins
07/02/2012 - In MINT condition: eco CD packaging
07/02/2012 - Verizon and Redbox “erase technology boundaries”
07/02/2012 - Blues Brothers makeover with Audionamix
02/02/2012 - Sony names Kazuo Hirai as President and CEO
02/02/2012 - Sky takes on LoveFilm and Netflix
02/02/2012 - Thick As A Brick 2 - 40th anniversary sequel
31/01/2012 - Epson launches new BD disc producer
31/01/2012 - New UV coater from ADR
31/01/2012 - Analyst blasts disc-less UltraViolet
30/01/2012 - Copy protection and the unused magic bullet
30/01/2012 - Online Video Surges – Now it’s Time to Pay!!!
30/01/2012 - Universal Music UK expands arvato deal
26/01/2012 - The Walking Dead app from Red Bee
26/01/2012 - Beeb techie to chair FES 2012
26/01/2012 - Association initiatives to help replicators
25/01/2012 - Cinram UK and Beckmann Group in new agreement
25/01/2012 - Technicolor renews WWE agreement
24/01/2012 - Sharp joins One-Blue licensing program
24/01/2012 - Digital music: state of the industry
24/01/2012 - Hardcore games generate higher monetization rates
23/01/2012 - Polar Mobile raises $6m for MediaEverywhere
23/01/2012 - Mitsubishi ceases disc production
23/01/2012 - Label equity provides boost for HMV
20/01/2012 - Connected TV will dominate by 2015
20/01/2012 - Metadata - your best ROI
20/01/2012 - Let the games begin
20/01/2012 - Data: the new oil of our economy
18/01/2012 - Free apps are the real money-makers
18/01/2012 - Drinks and digital rights management
18/01/2012 - Explosion of entrepreneurship
18/01/2012 - Fail fast and disrupt
18/01/2012 - Customizable DVD On Demand with TED
17/01/2012 - Taiyo Yuden joins One-Blue Blu-ray licensing program
17/01/2012 - North American debut for Blu-ray testing event
17/01/2012 - Tablets and the future
17/01/2012 - Keeping the customer satisfied
17/01/2012 - Profitability not monetization?
17/01/2012 - Avoid complacency, panel tells UK Film industry
12/01/2012 - Blu-ray boosts home entertainment
11/01/2012 - ConnecTV integrates Civolution ACR technology
11/01/2012 - Justin Timberlake launches Myspace TV with Panasonic
11/01/2012 - Accedo and Audible Magic partner on TV apps
11/01/2012 - BluFocus and THX team up
11/01/2012 - Three-quarters of a million go with UltraViolet
09/01/2012 - Austrian replicator kdg launches Blu-ray production
09/01/2012 - Cinram and Mobovivo in entertainment app partnership
09/01/2012 - Sky moves on second screen world
09/01/2012 - Over 15 million tablets shipped in Q3 2011
09/01/2012 - Sony DADC delivers Vienna New Year’s Concert
05/01/2012 - Microsoft sues UK retailer
04/01/2012 - What’s up with special packaging in music?
04/01/2012 - British talent brings cheer to home video in 2011
04/01/2012 - CDs still rule the UK album world
03/01/2012 - AGI World and Shorewood Packaging complete merger
03/01/2012 - Paramount Pictures tops 2011 box office earnings
03/01/2012 - Analyst outlines UltraViolet retail benefits
03/01/2012 - TV Everywhere with Accedo and Irdeto
15/12/2011 - Fortium uses Civolution Nexguard watermarking
15/12/2011 - DECE provides UK UltraViolet update
15/12/2011 - Make it 3D in 2012
15/12/2011 - Tablets go sky-high
14/12/2011 - AFI Awards 2011 - Official Selections
13/12/2011 - Games winners and losers in 2012
08/12/2011 - Rihanna in your Christmas stocking
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.
