Smart Screen Connections
MovieLabs on the Importance of EIDR to the Future Media Supply Chain
Next year will mark the 10th anniversary of the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) global unique identifier system, which plays an important and relevant role in the future m... More
Studio Data Experts Highlight Feb. 27 Smart Hollywood Summit
Data experts from several major studios will take the stage Feb. 27 at the Smart Hollywood Summit, a day-long conference that will tackle the transformative effect AI, blockchain, ... More
CDSA Releases First Film and Television Production Security Guidelines
Guidelines for protecting film and television productions against cyber and physical breaches have been released by the Content Delivery and Security Association (CDSA), the worldw... More
Ooyala Looks to Advance Metadata Applications in News Production
Ooyala Feb. 4 announced it’s partnering with London-based media supply chain trade group Digital Production Partnership (DPP) to advance global news industry standards for the us... More
MarkLogic Exec: Entertainment Companies Can Do a Lot More with AI and ‘We Need to Get Started’
These are still early days for artificial intelligence (AI) and there’s a lot more that entertainment companies can do to leverage the technology to take full advantage of it for... More
CES 2019: AR Made Strides in 2018, Amazon Web Services Exec Says
LAS VEGAS – Augmented reality (AR) technology made strides in 2018 on multiple fronts and among several industry players, according to Mark Francis, product marketing lead for th... More
CES 2019: FandangoNOW Adds IMAX Films; Samsung, Apple Partner Up
VOD service FandangoNOW will be the first U.S. digital retailer to land IMAX Enhanced films for sale directly to the home, the companies announced at the Consumer Electronics Show ... More
CES 2019: AR/VR Stands to Get Boost from 5G, Verizon Ventures Director Says
LAS VEGAS – Further underscoring the significant presence that 5G is having at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Kristina Serafim, director at Verizon Ventures, pred... More
TiVo, Ampere Execs: Voice Control’s a Key Way to End Viewers’ Content Chaos
TV viewers are facing a constantly expanding choice of content to view across the growing number of linear channels and over-the-top (OTT) services, resulting in mass confusion –... More
MPAA Exec: How ACE is Acing Digital Pirates
Piracy continues to present a major problem for media and entertainment companies and it’s important that organizations work together in a coordinated effort to fight it globally... More
Trusted Partner Network Hosts Community Workshop at CPS 2018
The Trusted Partner Network (TPN) — an industry security initiative supported by 28 media and entertainment companies, created by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)... More
AI, Watermarking, DRM Among Content Protection Summit Showcase Topics
Some of the industry’s top security minds will be on hand Dec. 5 at the Content Delivery & Security Association’s (CDSA) annual Content Protection Summit (CPS) in Marina de... More
L.A. Cyber Lab, MPAA Speakers Among Content Protection Summit Highlights
The deputy mayor of the city of Los Angeles, the director of the Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) and a legal head with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPA... More
OTT Provided a Q4 Boost for Viacom
The strong performance of “Mission: Impossible – Fallout,” combined with growth in revenue from over-the-top (OTT) streaming and other digital services, helped Viacom report ... More
CBS Banks on OTT Subscribers
Subscriptions to the CBS All Access and Showtime over-the-top (OTT) streaming services continued to soar in CBS’s third quarter (ended Sept. 30) and those and the company’s oth... More
Google, ABC, CBS Execs Talk Advanced TV Challenges
NEW YORK – Amid ongoing major changes that have taken place across the TV industry, broadcasters and other media companies, as well as technology companies, are continuing their ... More
VR Making Strides but Continues to Face Challenges
NEW YORK — Virtual Reality (VR) continues to make advances when it comes to investment dollars and hardware innovation, but the technology continues to face challenges and still ... More
NAB Show New York: Avid, AWS Elemental, Caringo Tout Latest Products, Strategies
NEW YORK — Avid, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elemental and Caringo were among the many members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) that are showcasing their lates... More
Trusted Partner Network to Launch App & Cloud Initiative in 2019
The Trusted Partner Network (TPN), an industry security consortium of 28 media and entertainment companies represented by the MPAA and CDSA, has announced the 2019 launch of its ne... More
HITS Fall: EIDR’s Roadmap Looks Bright
LOS ANGELES — Will Kreth, executive director of the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR), looks at the current, collaborative ID initiatives being undertaken today by the entertainme... More