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Following a final TiVo shareholder vote, Rovi’s $1.1 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of the company is complete, and Rovi Sept. 8 announced it was following through on its pro... More

While dozens of members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) are at this week’s IBC conference in Amsterdam, announcing new technologies and new partnerships... More

Todd Collart, GM and SVP of Deluxe Digital Distribution, has been to his fair share of IBC conferences. And he sees this week’s Sept. 8-13 confab in Amsterdam offering more than... More

Steve Brown, the longtime president and CEO of Cinram International, has left the company, the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) has learned. First coming on as hea... More

The annual Amsterdam IBC tech gathering may still be a week away, but IBM’s Aspera is getting a head start. The company announced Sept. 1 that Sky, Europe’s biggest entertai... More

After more than two years at the helm of Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS), president Bob Toohey has stepped down, to take over as EVP for AOL, which Verizon acquired for $4.4 ... More

It’s not just video games and Hollywood entertainment looking for an edge with virtual reality. Technicolor-owned VFX house The Mill — which was acquired for nearly $294 mil... More

A year after launching Ven.ue, a cloud-based offering, designed to let distributors pair linear broadcasts with OTT and mobile offerings, Sony DADC New Media Solutions is giving th... More

There’s no shortage of benefits for broadcasters who latch on to ATSC 3.0, the IP-based, next-gen industry standard that allows for over-the-air delivery of everything from immer... More

By Don Dulchinos, Executive Director, Entertainment ID Registry - The EIDR registry has grown in many dimensions. The raw size of the registry has grown to over 840,000 unique r... More

For a dozen years now, there’s been a company in Burbank, Calif. that Hollywood’s biggest companies have trusted with everything from disc to digital, from 4K to high dynamic r... More

By Bob Eicholz, CTO Production Services, and Gaël Seydoux, R&I Lab Director, Technicolor The interest, energy and excitement currently building up around entertainment experien... More

Progress is being made to make advertising a seamless experience across multiple platforms and to be able to accurately measure viewership data for ads across all those devices, bu... More

Being the oldest in your line of work is one thing. Being the biggest is another. Western Digital Corporation, including the HGST brand, happens to be both. The HGST brand wa... More

Industry leaders from the Hollywood studios, television networks and content production community are again scheduled to meet at the 7th Annual CDSA Content Protection Summit on De... More

If you’re a content company getting a new digital video service off the ground, things aren’t supposed to be plug-and-play simple. Multiple video formats, multiple monetizat... More

LOS ANGELES — Acclaimed Pixar Animation Studios storyteller, Matthew Luhn, has been named a keynote speaker at the annual fall conference of the Hollywood IT Society (HITS), Octo... More

By Mahesha Pandit, SVP Head of Disruptive Innovation Group, and Edward Altman, VP Sales & Solutions, ValueLabs While the idea that “content is king” still resonates in the d... More

For the foreseeable future, we’ll be seeing the continued popularity of mobile devices and over-the-top (OTT) services for viewing TV content, as well as more cord-cutting and 4K... More

It’s still “really early” for Facebook when it comes to virtual reality, but the company is already “hitting some important milestones,” according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.... More