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Evolution Digital Deploys eVUE-TV with Seven Additional NCTC Member Operators (MESA)

Evolution Digital today announced the deployment of its fully-managed eVUE-TV™ IP Video on Demand Solution with seven additional member operators in the National Cable Television... More

USA Swimming Centralizes Content, Licensing on Wazee Digital Core (MESA)

Wazee Digital today announced that USA Swimming is using Wazee Digital Core as a central content repository and licensing portal. The governing body’s engagement with Wazee Digit... More

NeuLion Offers Opportunistic Entry Into Video Streaming (Forbes)

Major technology disruption creates winners and losers, and the rise of digital video streaming comes at the expense of traditional cable and broadcast television companies, which ... More

A Conversation About Digital Copyright Reform (TechCrunch)

The European Union is in the process of reforming copyright laws that date back to 2001, as part of a wider strategy to establish a Digital Single Market across the 28 Member State... More

Cinedigm Enters Pact with Verizon Digital Media Services (MESA)

Cinedigm has selected Verizon Digital Media Services to power the streaming and syndication of linear content for its portfolio of over the top digital networks. The move to the Ve... More

Surviving the Meteorite and Winning the Next Era of Media (Wazee Digital Blog)

Targeted promotions that meet viewers where they are can be quite effective. How amazing is it that The Wall Street Journal, one of the more traditional news outlets in the world, ... More

NAB 2017: Prime Focus Technologies to Unveil IMF Media Player

Prime Focus Technologies will unveil IMF support including an IMF Player and Mastering Automation solution as part of its flagship product, CLEAR Media ERP, at NAB 2017. CLEAR�... More

U.S. Broadcasters Raise Game Against OTT Piracy (The Broadcast Bridge)

US pay TV operators and networks are collaborating to bear down on stream piracy through an expanding coalition funded equally by satellite operator Dish and broadcast channels. ... More

FilmOn Wants Appeals Court To Reconsider Cable License Denial 04/05/2017

Streaming video distributor FilmOn is asking the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its ruling that the company isn't entitled to a cable license. The decision, issued l... More

Netflix and Amazon are Now So Big That They’re Changing the Way Global TV Shows are Financed (Quartz)

Streaming services like Netflix and Amazon have already changed the rules for TV and film in Hollywood—they’ve boosted production, revived the market for older and out-of-produ... More

Apple Wants to Sell HBO, Showtime, Starz in a Single Bundle (Recode)

Apple isn’t done trying to sell you pay TV. Here’s the company’s latest proposal: It wants to sell consumers a premium TV bundle, which combines HBO, Showtime and Starz. A... More

Netflix Launches the Iron Fist Challenge (The Drum)

Netflix has launched a mobile experience that challenges users to test if they have the power of the “Iron Fist”. Danny Rand, the protagonist of Netflix's new Marvel series "Ir... More

Amazon Studios Execs: “We Believe In the Theatrical Window Fully For Our Releases” (Deadline)

Jason Ropell, VP Worldwide Motion Pictures at Amazon Studios, told CinemaCon attendees during the streaming service’s afternoon luncheon that the company believes “in the theat... More

Coming Soon to a TV Near You: Hollywood’s Latest Blockbusters (Bloomberg)

The span between a movie’s theatrical debut and home-video release is likely to get shorter -- as soon as this year. As movie theaters and studios converge this week in Las Ve... More

3 Major Issues Facing the Movie Business (Variety)

Last year, the talk at CinemaCon was all about Screening Room. Backed by Sean Parker of Napster and Facebook, the startup wanted to release movies in the home at the same time they... More

Amazon’s Ambitions Unboxed: Stores for Furniture, Appliances and More (NY Times)

For years, retailers have been haunted by the thought of Amazon using its technological prowess to squeeze them into powder. That battle has mostly played out on Amazon’s home tu... More

The Disc at 20: Packaged Media Resonates in a Digital Age (HMM)

In an era of digital distribution and streaming video, the DVD and Blu-ray Disc aren’t the home entertainment stars they once were. Yet, as the optical disc celebrates its 20th a... More

Adobe’s CMO Talks Data, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Cloud (Adweek)

Ann Lewnes: "The company has always been about experiences. And I think it was seven or eight years ago, we came up with a lofty tagline “Changing the World Through Digital Exper... More

Walmart’s Vudu Mobile App Will Let You Scan DVDs to Convert Them to Digital Copies – But There’s a Catch (Variety)

Vudu, Walmart’s premium video-streaming service, will now let people “convert” DVD and Blu-ray Disc collections into digital copies — which they can then watch on hundreds ... More

Studios Flirt With Offering $30 Movies in Home (Variety)

Six of the seven biggest Hollywood studios are continuing to push to offer movies in the home mere weeks after their theatrical debuts. However, the companies, particularly Fox ... More

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