Business
Why Sean Parker’s “Screening Room” Is Dividing Hollywood (Co.Create)
The details behind Screening Room and how it actually works remain murky at this point. Some studios have reportedly not even seen the Screening Room presentation. And the piracy q... More
How the CEO of Akamai Thinks About His Job (Boston.com)
If you watched the Super Bowl online you can thank Dr. Tom Leighton, CEO of Akamai Technologies, a global manager of Internet traffic based in Cambridge. The content delivery netwo... More
TiVo Said to Be in Merger Talks With Rovi (NY Times)
TiVo, the digital video recorder company that popularized the DVR and revolutionized “time shifting” and fast-forwarding through advertising, is in advanced negotiations to be ... More
Wazee Digital To Launch Live Event Services at NAB 2016 (MESA)
Wazee Digital, a leading provider of cloud-based video management and licensing services, is announcing the launch of a Live Event Services product at NAB 2016. Using Wazee Digital... More
Nokia Selects Deluxe for VR Post-Production (Advanced Television)
Deluxe will provide high quality post-production services for OZO VR content, including editorial, stitching and colour. Deluxe will also harness the talents of more than 3,000 glo... More
Testronic to Open Dedicated VR Test Center (MESA)
Testronic, a leading QA, localization and compliance specialist, has opened a dedicated Virtual Reality Test Centre. The VR Centre will operate within Testronic’s Warsaw, Poland ... More
FCC’s Cable Box Rules Won’t Prohibit Extra Ads Around TV Channels (Ars Technica)
When the Federal Communications Commission voted for a plan to let consumers watch TV channels on more devices, pay-TV companies complained that makers of third-party set-top boxes... More
U.S. Postal Service Fails in Bid to Raise Prices on Netflix (Hollywood Reporter)
Netflix still has five million people who subscribe to its DVD-by-mail service. That might not sound like a lot, especially when compared to the 75 million who are Netflix streamin... More
Hardware Giants Bet Big on Virtual Reality and a Market That Doesn’t Yet Exist (Variety)
Remember that feeling as a child before your birthday — the mixture of excitement and worry that deepest-held wishes might not come true? That’s how everyone in the nascent bus... More
Content Security Experts: No Easy Answer to Hollywood’s Screener Problem
By Chris Tribbey It was hard to find anyone in favor of DVD screeners at the March 22 Content Protection Briefing event. But attendees and speakers at the event sure know why th... More
Amazon and Netflix Bet on Local TV to Win in Europe? (Bloomberg Business)
As Netflix and Amazon seek a bigger share of the European market, they’re coming up against powerful incumbents such as France’s Canal Plus, with 15 million subscribers, and Sk... More
Verizon Acquires Video Capture Company Volicon (TechCrunch)
Verizon Digital Media Services is announcing the acquisition of Volicon, a company offering video capture and monitoring tools for TV broadcasters. Volicon says its products are us... More
Fox Joins Media’s Programmatic Ad Push (WSJ)
Fox Networks Group said Tuesday that it will be the latest media company to dip into “programmatic” technology, where advertisers can use software tools and data to target audi... More
Cable A La Carte Is Becoming a Reality — Outside the U.S. (Bloomberg Business)
If you want to watch the Disney Channel or BET in the U.S., you pretty much need a costly pay-TV plan, one with hundreds of networks you couldn’t care less about. In other countr... More
At SXSW, a Shift From Apps to Innovation (NY Times)
This year SXSW, as the festival is known, feels like a story of how the tech ethos has escaped the bounds of hardware and software. Tech is turning into a culture and a style, one ... More
Inside Screening Room’s Bold Plan to Disrupt Movie Business (Variety)
When it comes to movies, Parker believes that the future is a couch-based one, but that view has its detractors. Theaters have resisted efforts to shrink the time between a film’... More
Evolution Digital Adds Two (MESA)
IP video solutions company Evolution Digital has added two new regional sales directors, in a nod to the company’s expansion across the U.S. Industry vets Tom Poynton and David B... More
Tech’s Big Play in 2016 (TheHill)
Tech companies are now regularly co-sponsors of primary debates, their logos visible behind candidates during broadcasts that are breaking ratings records. More than half of the sa... More
Technicolor Hires Veteran Colorist Maxine Gervais (Hollywood Reporter)
Veteran colorist Maxine Gervais has joined Technicolor as senior supervising colorist, based at Technicolor Hollywood on the Sunset Gower Studios lot. A frequent collaborator with ... More
Mediamorph Platform Wins 2016 Cablefax Tech Award (MESA)
Mediamorph Inc. announced today that its Mediamorph Platform won a Cablefax 2016 Tech Award in the category of “Commercial Software”. The Tech Awards praise forward-thinking te... More
