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Dolby CEO: Growing Atmos, Vision ‘Momentum’ Has Company Off to Strong 2019 Start

Continued strength in Dolby Atmos, Dolby Cinema and Dolby Vision helped Dolby report stronger results in its first quarter (ended Dec. 28) of fiscal 2019 than it did a year ago, ac... More

EIDR Experts Look to ID System’s Future

PLAYA VISTA, Calif. — 2019 marks the ninth year of existence for the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR), the global unique identifier system. But while it’ll be a year be... More

M&E Journal: The Evolution – and Applications – of the Video-Based Search Engine

By Eyal Arad, CEO, Co-Founder, Videocites - The text-based search engine is the standard search tool for video discovery and management according to titles, tags, or any other a... More

Deluxe Exec: Don’t Count Out Blu-ray Just Yet

Although digital delivery of video continues to dominate the video home entertainment market, it’s still too soon to count out Blu-ray and Ultra High-Def (UHD) Blu-ray completely... 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

PwC: AI, Data Demand Expected to Play Major Role in 2019 Media, Telecom M&As

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) this year are expected to be “driven by the continued convergence” of media and technology, “continued demand for data” and artificial intel... More

Illuminating and Essential: 2019 HPA Tech Retreat Program Hits Crucial Topics

For more than 20 years, a roster of well-known and emerging leaders in engineering, technology, creativity and business gathers once a year for a week near Palm Springs, Calif. to ... More

2018: The Year of ‘Citizen AI’

This is the final installment of a three-part piece on the advances made in artificial intelligence in 2018, by Yves Bergquist, founder and CEO of AI company Corto, and director of... More

AI in 2018: More Deep Learning Extensions and Crazy Rich Bayesians

This is the second installment of a three-part piece on the advances made in artificial intelligence in 2018, by Yves Bergquist, founder and CEO of AI company Corto, and director o... More

2018: AI’s Electrifying ‘Gap Year’

This is the first of a three-part piece on the advances made in artificial intelligence in 2018, by Yves Bergquist, founder and CEO of AI company Corto, and director of the AI and ... More

MESA, MarkLogic Webinar to Examine Effective AI Usage in M&E

When MarkLogic and the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) host the Jan. 23 webinar “AI and the Future of Entertainment Data,” Matt Turner wants to cut through t... More

CES 2019: AI’s Enhancing Content Creation and Viewing, Comcast and Dolby Execs Say

LAS VEGAS – Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are already being used by media and entertainment companies to enhance the content they are creating, as well a... 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: Gracenote Reports Strong Early Interest in Next-Gen Descriptive Metadata Solution

LAS VEGAS – Gracenote is “already getting a lot of interest from customers” about the recently-introduced Video Descriptors next-generation descriptive metadata solution that... More

CES 2019: Luxoft Touts Latest Autonomous, Connected Mobility and Future In-Vehicle Experiences

LAS VEGAS – At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, Luxoft is showcasing its latest autonomous and connected mobility concepts and providing a peek into the future of a... More

CES 2019: Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision Support Continues to Expand

LAS VEGAS – Dolby is using this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to highlight the growing support for its Dolby Atmos immersive sound technology and Dolby Vision High Dyn... More

CES 2019: Ooyala, Paramount Execs Talk Future of Video

LAS VEGAS — Ted Schilowitz, futurist with Paramount Pictures, looks at the state of entertainment today, and sees a mixed bag. “We’ve effectively TV’d everything in our ... More

CES 2019: TiVo, Technicolor Make Partnership Waves; Panasonic Unveils Dolby Vision, HDR10+ Set

LAS VEGAS — TiVo used the opening day of CES 2019 to announce it had extended its partnership with Verizon, with the operator using TiVo’s personalized content discovery platfo... More

CES 2019: CTA Sees Major U.S. 8K TV Push

LAS VEGAS -- The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) expects U.S. 8K TV unit shipments to total only about 200,000 in 2019, but will steadily grow over the next three years and r... More

Diamond: Bridging Innovation and Enterprise

Diamond is a Los Angeles-based digital agency that’s been specializing in scalable, high-performance mobile and web applications since it was created in 2012. Jonathan de Arma... More

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