DCD Business Report articles from April 2004

DCD Business Report archives from April 2004

Where Have All The CDs Gone?
April 12, 2004... In a music industry that's begun to chase after online sales, whether it's in support of legal downloads or in hot pursuit of Internet offenders, CDs and even DVDs continue to claim the lion's share of an approximately $10 billion market in the...

Authoring Software Bundles With DVD+R Burners.
April 12, 2004... Ahead Software, based in Karlsbad, Germany, is the first developer to release authoring software for the new DVD+R Double Layer (DL) discs and burners expected to reach the market later this quarter. Craig Campbell, technical director for Ahead...

In-Store Messaging Pushes Video Marketing To Networks.
April 12, 2004... In retail environments the trend is away from static sources of marketing content to networked systems that facilitate on-the-fly updates. Digital content that once resided only on DVD discs powered by industrial DVD players is making the move...

10 Million Americans Paid To Download Music.
April 12, 2004... According to New York-based global market research firm Ipsos-Insight, nearly 22 percent of American down-loaders aged 12 and older have paid a fee for digital music off the Internet. This translates into an estimated 10 million experienced,...

DVR Popularity Grows Worldwide.(Digital video recorders)
April 12, 2004... A new study from IDC, a Framingham, Mass.-based research organization, indicates that despite slow adoption rates and marketing efforts that never really hit home with consumers, digital video recorders (DVRs) are beginning to reach the masses....

Data Filter.
April 12, 2004... WHAT'S HAPPENING?: Circuit City Stores Inc., and MusicNow Inc., signed a definitive agreement for the purchase by Circuit City of the assets of MusicNow, a leading digital music platform. MusicNow will retain its own brand and will continue...

ISO DRM Standard Gains Support And More...
April 12, 2004... On the heels of last weeks' announcement that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) had approved its first digital rights management (DRM) standard, MPEG REL, several leading companies involved in entertainment, content...

Interactive HDTV MPEG-4 Set-Top Box.(DG2L Technologies Inc.,)(Brief Article)
April 12, 2004... DG2L Technologies Inc., of New York and Singapore will introduce one of the first next-generation media technology products, DG2L Neuron, a multinetwork, HDTV MPEG-4 set-top box at the NAB Show (National Association of Broadcasters) next week...

Pioneer Develops Electron Beam Recorder.(Brief Article)
April 12, 2004... Pioneer Corporation and its subsidiary Pioneer FA Corporation of Tokyo and Saitama, Japan, jointly developed an electron beam recorder (EBR) for the mastering of such next-generation optical media as DVD Blu-ray Discs. Pioneer FA plans to begin...

InterVideo Demonstrates New WMA 9 Playback Technology.(Brief Article)
April 12, 2004... InterVideo Inc. of Fremont, Calif., demonstrated InstantON, its new Windows Media Audio (WMA) 9 playback technology, at the Intel Developer Forum in Japan last week. InstantON is a modular technology that enables a dual-boot configuration...

Strategic Rich Media/IT Partnerships Accent NAB.(National Association of Broadcasters)
April 26, 2004... As the world of rich media goes fully digital, changes in production workflow--from content creation to management and delivery--are fostering new distribution models, which in turn are encouraging new kinds of technology strategies and...

New California Bill Encourages Disc Recycling.
April 26, 2004... Working its way through the legislature of the State of California is Assembly Bill 2166, introduced by State Assembly Member Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley). The Bill, which passed its first round April 19, would prohibit the distribution or...

U.S. Justice Dept. Sets International Media Piracy Policy.
April 26, 2004... On April 22, United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and the U.S. Department of Justice revealed "Operation Fastlink," a worldwide law enforcement operation aimed at dismantling international online piracy organizations. In a prepared...

China Takes Major Steps To Reduce Piracy.(Brief Article)
April 26, 2004... As Operation Fastlink was underway last week, the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, an inter-governmental forum for addressing trade and commercial problems between the two countries, presented new initiatives that the...

From Gigabytes to Terabytes: Upping the Storage Ante.
April 26, 2004... As High-Density (HD) video technology begins to take center stage in the digital broadcast and distribution arena, the move to higher capacity storage media has also stepped up its pace. Several recent technology developments have included new...

Music Downloaders Experiment With Video.
April 26, 2004... A recent survey of American music downloaders indicates that at least 21 percent of those downloaders have also accessed full-length motion pictures online, with 38 percent having also downloaded a music video from the Internet. The survey was...

Data Filter.
April 26, 2004... What's Happening?: A $30 million agreement has been signed between Cocom International Ltd., a wholly-owned eWan subsidiary based in the U.K., and Linux Technology Limited of Taipei, Taiwan, under which CoCom will purchase its advance Triple...

Unit Sales To Dealers of Selected Video Products (Week ending April 9).(Illustration)
April 26, 2004... Month to Date Sales 2004 2003 Percent Change Analog Direct View Televisions 1,867,727 2,000,825 -6.70% Analog TV/VCR Combinations 158,514 289,855 -45.30% Analog TV/DVD1 ...

Video Delivery and Streaming Audio Almost Double in Q1 2004.(AccuStream iMedia Research)
April 26, 2004... AccuStream iMedia Research, of Monterey, CA, has released new research which indicates that the amount of streaming audio and video content delivered on the Internet in the first quarter of 2004 is up118 percent and 80 percent, respectively,...

Report Claims Packaged Movies Will Soon Feel Online Pressure.(Brief Article)
April 26, 2004... A new report from In-Stat/MDR, of Scottsdale, AZ, a high-tech research organization, predicts that Hollywood's current packaged goods business model will soon feel the effects from online services. The report claims that with online services...