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CDSA is redoubling efforts to develop its Content Protection and Security Certification Program, with the trade group’s newly elected chairman, Spencer Mott of Electronic Arts, v... More

One year ago, former automotive executive Steve Brown was named CEO of the world’s largest optical media and entertainment supply chain services company, Toronto-based Cinram Int... More

Testronic Laboratories plans to open a new Digital Entertainment Test Lab to provide quality assurance services for a range of digital entertainment platforms, including web portal... More

Deluxe Digital Studios has become the first entertainment services company in the world to achieve the Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA) Content Protection and Sec... More

This year's ESCA EDGE conference on June 3 is about much more than the entertainment supply chain.  Guest appearances by Redbox president Mitch Lowe and Amazon.com CTO Werner Voge... More

Since the dawn of home video, home entertainment has been all about giving the consumer maximum control of their living room TV.  With yesterday's announcement that Google  along... More

The move to digital puts new demands on the content protection policies of the studios.  From the extended development and distribution supply chain through the proliferation of d... More

Colleen Quinn, Global Program Director of Interactive Advertising and Media & Entertainment at supply chain systems provider Teradata, shines a light on the shortcomings of ven... More

A reordering of home entertainment release windows seems to be a foregone conclusion for BTIG Research analyst Richard Greenfield. The analyst has long urged studios to adopt a seq... More

Even as foreign trading partners clamp down on illegal optical media production and distribution, new forms of digital piracy are emerging, according to a recent report from the U.... More

A law requiring manufacturers to label children’s products as meeting restrictions for lead and other harmful chemicals does not apply to “most” DVDs, CDs and videogames, acc... More

The phrase “social media” immediately conjures up images of teens chatting incessantly over Facebook or Twitter. But the technology behind social networks is now being employed... More

Streaming music service Lala, acquired by Apple in December, told users this morning that it will shut down on May 31, issuing iTunes Store credit to those who have purchased 10-ce... More

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment announced today a June 1 release date for Blu-ray and DVD versions of “Alice In Wonderland,” which has earned some $320 million in theate... More

Netflix announced agreements with the home entertainment units of Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Studios, in which the service forgoes renting new-release movies from the stud... More

Kingston Technology Company, whose flash memory devices have been used by the likes of Paramount and Sony Pictures to deliver home entertainment to consumers, announces its complet... More

Media and entertainment companies will increase their digital storage capacity requirements tenfold by 2015, when storage media makers will respond by shipping products representin... More

While Coinstar and NCR Corp. continue to expand their respective Redbox and Blockbuster Express networks, a new company is looking to claim a piece of the DVD kiosk pie. Start-up ... More

Entertainment merchandising continues to evolve at Wal-Mart, with the retailer having struck an exclusive deal with DreamWorks Animation for toys, apparel, and other licensed produ... More

Hollywood kept the video on demand business at bay for years while consumers built their DVD libraries. Now a consortium of studios is teaming with the nation’s largest cable com... More