Film/TV
The Future of Movie Theaters Might Look a Lot Like an Apple Store (OneZero)
It’s not hard to imagine a merger between a theater chain and a big tech company. Picture stadium seating for original Apple movies at one of the company’s “Town Square” st... More
Can Christopher Nolan Save the Cinema-Going Experience? (The Critic)
It would take a spectacular must-see film to revitalize the cinema-going experience for audiences, and Warner Bros, the studio behind Tenet, are hoping that Nolan’s latest will b... More
Prime Focus Technologies’ AI Platform, CLEAR Vision Cloud, Now Combines Technology, Consulting (MESA)
Prime Focus Technologies announced new features in its AI platform that help solve real world business problems of TV Networks, Studios and Direct to Consumer businesses. A native ... More
Piracy: An Integrated Security to Protect All Services (Senal News)
Jean-Philippe Plantevin, VP Anti-Piracy at Nagra, argues that the fight against piracy, whether it is the product of content sharing or commercial piracy, is an ongoing effort at v... More
Synamedia Private CDN for COSMOTE TV Streamer (Advanced Television)
Pay-TV platform COSMOTE TV has gone live with video technology specialist Synamedia’s Media Streamer CDN platform for its new streaming service. Synamedia’s virtualised Media S... More
With TV Ad Commitments Plummeting, the Advertising Business May Never Look the Same (CNBC)
When marketers do come back, they’re expected to shift further from traditional TV advertising to digital formats, where ads can be more targeted and their impact can be better m... More
Red Bee Distributing Channels for Youfone (Broadband TV News)
Red Bee says its providing channel distribution services for the Dutch independent telecom provider Youfone. The operator is using the Red Bee Channel Store to create the platform ... More
Vubiquity to Provide Airtel Africa With Content, Curation via Microsoft Azure Content-as-a-Service Solution (MESA)
Vubiquity, an Amdocs company, announced that it will become a premium content supplier and exclusive content curator for Airtel Africa. Airtel Africa has signed an agreement with V... More
Streaming Releases Test the Waters of a Changed Industry (New Yorker)
“Trolls World Tour” and “True History of the Kelly Gang” forgo the majesty of the big screen, in the hope of recouping costs online. But will we watch?... More
Monday is the New Weekend as Quarantined Households Binge on TV (Bloomberg)
With millions of Americans still stuck at home amid coronavirus shutdowns and stay-at-home orders, Comcast said it’s seeing shifts and new behaviors in television viewing pattern... More
Synamedia Makes ATSC 3.0 Waves (MESA)
Independent video software provider Synamedia has made a series of new announcements, including two around developments in the ATSC 3.0 space. First, the company announced it is th... More
SDI: 12 Tips for Voice Actors When Dubbing From Home (MESA)
The pandemic and regional work-from-home mandates have forced industries to find ways to provide business critical services with a distributed workforce. In the localization indust... More
YouTube TV Adding 14 Cable Networks From ViacomCBS Under Expanded Pact (Variety)
YouTube TV subscribers will finally be able to tune into ViacomCBS’s BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and eight other cable nets starting this summer. Under an expanded, mul... More
Verizon Media, Ampersand Announce Strategic Advanced TV Relationship (MESA)
Ampersand and Verizon Media announced a new strategic advanced TV relationship to bring further national scale and unification of addressable TV to advertisers. Ampersand will serv... More
Red Bee Takes Over Playout Operations for BBC Persian, Arabic TV News Channels (MESA)
Red Bee has taken over playout operations for BBC News Arabic television and BBC News Persian television. As of early April 2020, playout operations for both channels were outsourc... More
Synamedia Expands Best-of-Breed Video Network Partner Program With HPE (MESA)
Synamedia announced it has signed an OEM agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to use HPE ProLiant servers to power its solutions and further advance its market-leading video n... More
Movie Theaters in Norway to Reopen May 7 With 50 People Cap Per Screen (Variety)
Movie theaters in Norway will reopen on May 7 after being shut down on March 12 when the country went into a partial lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, Variety has confirmed... More
If Movie Theaters Reopen, People Say These Steps Will Make Them Likely to Return (Morning Consult)
As states and localities begin to reopen public spaces, including movie theaters, new data shows which steps consumers want theaters to take to make spaces safer, including sanitiz... More
Many Americans Would Return to Theaters if New Protocols Were in Place (THR)
More than half of Americans say they would take a trip to a theater within a month of their respective states meeting White House guidelines for reopening businesses — provided t... More
Streaming-Only Films Will Now be Considered for Oscar Nomination Because of the Coronavirus Pandemic (Forbes)
The coronavirus pandemic has forced the Academy Awards to allow films released only on streaming or video on demand platforms to be eligible for Oscar nominations, as social distan... More
