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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

Wazee Digital Builds B2B Content Portal For BBC Worldwide

Wazee Digital has successfully launched a business to business content portal for BBC Worldwide’s global sales team to enhance the marketing of programmes to broadcasters from ar... More

Prime Focus Technologies Adds Cisco Vet Devarajan (MESA)

Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), the technology arm of post-production and media tech company Prime Focus, has added Cisco Systems India veteran Samu Devarajan as its new independen... More

Amazon, Retail Behemoth, Taking Smaller Steps Into Hollywood (Variety)

Amazon adheres to a more traditional distribution strategy. It partners with indie distributors, such as Roadside or Bleecker Street, to release movies in theaters, and then makes ... More

Why Adobe Believes It Has A Promising Mobile Apps Strategy For The Future (Forbes)

How does the future of creative mobile apps look like? Mobile usage surpassed desktop in 2014, so it’s a big question to answer. To answer that question, I sat down to talk with ... More

AMC Theatres Acquires Carmike Cinemas for $1.1 Billion (HMM)

AMC Theatres March 3 announced it is acquiring Carmike Cinemas for $1.1 billion in cash, which includes the assumption of Carmike debt. The deal creates the world’s largest theat... More

Verizon, Hearst Form Digital Video Joint Venture (Variety)

Verizon and Hearst have pacted on a 50-50 joint venture to create and launch digital-video channels with original programming aimed at younger, mobile-skewing consumers. Under the ... More

Adobe’s Shift To The Subscriber Model Is Paying Off (IBD)

A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but turning to a subscription model means that you think a lot more than two birds are in the bush. Adobe Systems has been transiti... More

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