[caption id="attachment_4267" align="alignright" width="200"] Julian Sprengel GfK Entertainment[/caption] With the launch of more and more 4K Ultra HD-ready devices in the last few years, consumer awareness for high quality media content has risen, too. How does this affect the traditional physical formats like DVD and standard Blu-ray Disc? The decisive question is whether...
Local product dominates in Japan, but in Australia, titles from U.S. major studios are still growing in share. [caption id="attachment_4267" align="alignright" width="200"] Julian Sprengel Gfk Entertainment[/caption] As digital movie transactions grow globally, the physical market still remains a reliable business field for the U.S. major studios around the world....
Rapid advances in technology have changed the way we consume, work and live. On the business side, new technologies like predictive analytics have transformed nearly every industry in the last 10 years. While the movie industry has eagerly embraced new technology on the production side, one can make the case that business methods and intelligence, in the film industry, have been...
Streaming continues to increase among all age groups, and nearly half of consumers say the services they’re using were acquired in just the last six months. This is good news for providers in the video space. Or, is it? [caption id="attachment_4121" align="alignleft" width="200"] Paige Hayes | PwC[/caption] While it’s true that cord cutting has more momentum than ever—the number of people who...
For the entirety of its history, watchable content has been confined. Boxed in the borders of a television, walled off behind a subscription fee, and tethered to the wall. Now, content is truly borderless. [caption id="attachment_4020" align="alignright" width="195"] Morgan Fiumi | Deluxe[/caption] Today, content fits every screen, travels to every region, and is available at any time. And there are no signs...
As industry executives, it’s a good idea to sometimes step back from the day to day and ‘act’ like a consumer in our world. Donna Thomas, SVP, Sales at Vubiquity is a dynamic executive by day, and by night, put on her consumer hat to talk about 4K from her armchair… I absolutely love TV! I watch way too much, but...
(Above) Source: Screen Engine/ASI [caption id="attachment_848" align="alignright" width="177"] Mark Orne Screen Engine/ASI[/caption] With the launch of the Movies Anywhere service in October 2017, home entertainment consumers gained a new cloud storage option for watching the films in their digital collections. While the original service, known as Disney Movies Anywhere (DMA), provided a convenient...
(Above, Danny Kaye accepts Fox Innovation Lab's induction into the Variety Home Entertainment & Digital Hall of Fame, with Ericsson's Mark Russell. Photo credit: Chelsea Lauren/Variety/REX/Shutterstock) BY GREG TARR SPECIAL TO DEG Danny Kaye, executive VP and managing director for Fox Innovation Lab, is on a mission to help content creators put their work in front of consumers on as many screens as possible,...
Venture's priorities are protecting content value and removing friction from the digital supply chain Studio veteran Richard Berger believes his job as President and CEO of MovieLabs the perfect vantage point from which to focus on industrywide efforts to grow the business of digital content distribution. Six months into his leadership of the technology joint venture founded in 2006 by six...
HBO Chairman & CEO Richard Plepler (top l.) will keynote DEG's Spring Membership Meeting on April 4 at HBO's Manhattan headquarters. Following the keynote, analyst Michael Nathanson (top r.), Founding Partner & Senior Research Analyst, MoffettNathanson Research, and Mitch Lowe, CEO of MoviePass, will participate in a fireside chat titled "The Siren Call of Subscription." Nathanson and Lowe, who previously was President...