Film/TV

 

Tata Communications, NEP Pioneer the Remote Production of VIVO Pro Kabaddi League 2018 for Star Sports (MESA)

Tata Communications and NEP Broadcast Solutions are together enabling the remote production of VIVO Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) for Star Sports, the number one sports broadcaster in I... More

Fake Video is a Big Problem – In 2019, it Gets Worse (Maclean’s)

This will be the year that you can no longer believe your eyes. Video manipulation techniques that previously only special effects studios could pull off will soon be available in ... More

EY’s Balis: Advertisers Seek ‘Interoperability’ in Television Offerings (Beet.TV)

Walking the floors of last year’s CES extravaganza, EY’s Janet Balis saw many separate consumer-facing ecosystems with smart technology in common. “And you see a lot of frict... More

T-Mobile Scrapping Plan to Offer TV Service This Year (Bloomberg)

T-Mobile US Inc. is delaying the debut of its much-anticipated video service after the project proved more complex than expected, according to people familiar with the situation. T... More

Content, Technology Come Together for Deluxe, Brad Soroca (SHOOTonline)

While Brad Soroca’s home is Deluxe Entertainment Services Group as its chief commercial officer, he has long resided at the intersection of content and technology, dating back to... More

Ooyala: Xmas Viewing Trends Will See Generational Split (Advanced Television)

Ooyala has put together its thoughts on how the UK will be watching content over the Christmas period, and how broadcasters might try to fight back to regain a slice of the viewing... More

How Can Pay-TV Operators Truly Capitalize on the Android TV Opportunity? (APB)

Ivan Verbesselt, NAGRA: A short time ago, I wrote a blog about the impending digital denouement for the pay-TV industry. By that, I meant the tipping point where operators sink or ... More

Global TV Ad Spend Up 1% In 2018 (Media Post)

Global TV ad spending on linear TV - real time and delayed viewing - inched up 1% in 2018, estimated to be $140 billion, according to a new report. Looking at 12 key markets - Aust... More

AWS Elemental Spearheads The Washington Post’s Arc Publishing Platform (SVG)

With the use of AWS, the Arc Publishing platform takes full advantage of a microservices-based architecture with Amazon Elastic Container Service and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud e... More

Will the Peak TV Bubble Finally Burst in 2019? (Vanity Fair)

With additions from Apple, Disney, and WarnerMedia to the streaming wars, how much content can American audiences consume?... More

International Piracy Ring Stole Over 25,000 Movies, TV Digital Files, U.S. Feds Say (Variety)

A five-member international hacking crime ring stole more than 25,000 digital files, including feature films, trailers, TV episodes and audio tracks, which they stored on a server ... More

Why the ‘Superabundance’ of Content is Proving Tricky (TVB Europe)

Simon Trudelle, NAGRA: Today’s pay-TV landscape is a dream for content consumers; we’ve never been so spoilt for choice when it comes to the entertainment on our screens. But t... More

More Games, More Angles, But Fewer Cameras… Can 5G Revolutionize Live Sports Production? (SportsPro)

BT Sport staged a landmark trial using a 5G mobile network for remote production in November. With the technology set to offer UK mobile users faster upload and download speeds as ... More

The Future of Television? Binge-Watching is Only the Beginning (WSJ)

Streaming video on demand has changed the audience experience more in a few years than cable television did over a few decades, and industry executives are unanimous in the belief ... More

Fox Sports Details 5G Livestreaming Trial with AT&T, Ericsson at U.S. Open (FierceVideo)

Fox Sports and Fox Innovation Lab, alongside AT&T, Ericsson and Intel, are offering up some details on their 5G livestreaming trial from the U.S. Open in June. The companies said 5... More

How Asia is Reinventing the Moviegoing Experience for the Streaming Age (THR)

One of the most compelling experiments, just now getting off the ground, is Chinese video giant iQiyi's attempt to meld the movie theater experience with the age of streaming. The ... More

BTI Studios Acquires Dubbing Studios in Rome (MESA)

BTI Studios announced the acquisition of Italian dubbing studios La BiBi.it (La BiBi) and Multimedia Network, who were formerly part of the Recandub group. Both studios are based a... More

Amazon Bid for Fox Networks May Escalate Sports Rights Arms Race (THR)

Murdoch's 22 regional stations, valued at $25 billion, draw interest from Amazon, MLB, the Yankees and others as streaming deals heat up.... More

Paul Ghezzo Named Creative Director at Technicolor VFX in L.A. (Studio Daily)

Technicolor VFX named Paul Ghezzo creative director at its Los Angeles studio, which is integrated within the company’s post-production business. Ghezzo was most recently head of... More

Technicolor PostWorks Preps Free Climbing Epic ‘The Dawn Wall’ for Theatrical Run (MESA)

Technicolor PostWorks New York provided finishing services for The Dawn Wall, the new documentary from Red Bull House Media about free-climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson’... More

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