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How do media and entertainment companies secure digital screeners within the content supply chain? Are digital screeners really set to replace the days of shipping out a DVD? And w... More

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey looooovvvve virtual reality, they told Re/code Executive Editor Kara Swisher at Silicon Valley Comic Con — but ... More

In the emerging high dynamic range (HDR) technology market, just a handful of players are dictating which standards are being used and how HDR will be delivered to consumers. Techn... More

Avere Systems, a leading provider of enterprise storage for the hybrid cloud, today announced that Google Cloud Platform has named Avere the “Google Cloud Platform Technology Par... More

The European exhibitors’ trade body, the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), expressed its opposition to the proposed Screening Room initiative Friday. “The vast majority of... More

Hollywood studio chiefs and entertainment industry CEOs appear to have dealmaking on their minds. Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman made another pitch at a Feb. 23 investor conference for... More

It may seem obvious to content providers, but a new study from video analytics firm IneoQuest Technologies puts a finer point on it: consumers can’t stand buffering. And waiting ... More

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

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

Technology cycles create periods of hype and fizzle. Expectations are enormous … often followed by tempered reality when actual market dynamics are realized. For instance, smartw... More

By Chris Tribbey When Warner Bros. debuts one of the more anticipated films of 2016 in theaters March 25 — Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice — it’ll be just the latest bl... More

Technology companies have fallen in love with the money-making potential of video ads. Live Web video is similar to regular TV, which is an advertising gold mine. And people for no... More

Five years ago, major studios attempts to offer first-run movies in the home months early set off a fierce standoff with theater owners. Now, a startup backed by Sean Parker of Fac... More

So the video stores that remain find themselves in a peculiar position: a symbol of the recent past, trying to hang on in the present. Unsurprisingly, many of their proprietors are... More

The battle over set-top boxes might not end up having much to do with the hardware itself. It may simply come down to which companies gain access to American cable users and all of... More

Blu-Ray doesn’t have much of a future in movies. With the rise of Netflix, Amazon Prime, and so many other Internet video streaming services, optical disks are neither the easies... More

As I said, discs are not what they used to be. Now, the process of getting a game on a disc is not simply “pop and play.” Rather, you have to go through a lengthy installation/... More

The Rio 2016 Olympic Games are to be covered in 8K, with footage also captured for Virtual Reality (VR) users. Parts of the Games will be covered in 8K for Japan, whilst 4K version... More

The number of physical stores selling music, video and games has reached an all-time high of more than 14,800, according to latest figures published today in the annual Entertainme... More

Prime Focus Technologies CEO Ramki Sankaranarayanan: "More than the cloud, broadband availability has changed the way video is consumed. The cloud just helped push the transition w... More