As communications and entertainment needs have gone mobile and social, consumers have increasingly embraced internet-delivered video for viewing TV shows and movies. If broadcasters and programmers are to reach this audience,… Read more »
The third quarter saw many parts of the traditional media business in flux. New digital platforms that once had confined themselves to user-generated content began to invest in creating professional-quality content… Read more »
Barnes & Noble’s effort with Nook Video represents the first time a major retailer has sought to deploy UltraViolet strategically, rather than as merely a nice-to-have add-on to DVD purchases. Read more »
Apple has sought to use the cloud to heighten the value of its tightly woven ecosystem by integrating its own cloud-based services into the core functionality of its devices and in… Read more »
The reviews are starting to roll in for Walmart’s in-store disc-to-digital conversion service and the consensus is…not terrible. BTIG Research analyst Rich Greenfield took some discs down to his local Walmart… Read more »
The first quarter of 2012 featured several high-profile legal and regulatory battles over privacy, antitrust and copyright that could eventually reshape digital markets, including the pay-TV business and online advertising. It… Read more »
Wal-Mart formally unveiled its in-store, disc-to-digital conversion service yesterday, which allows customers to take their DVDs to a Wal-Mart store to have them converted to an UltraViolet digital file stored in… Read more »
Wal-Mart is looking to use its leverage in Hollywood to accelerate the movie industry’s move to cloud-based storage and digital commerce. In the process, it could steal a march on other… Read more »
Hollywood’s hopes — perhaps its last — of getting consumers into the habit of buying movies again instead of merely renting them is about to get a couple of boosts. According… Read more »
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem consortium, the industry group behind Hollywood’s UltraViolet initiative, is promising an update on next-steps for the cross-platform DRM system at CES next month. They might want… Read more »