DCD Business Report articles from March 2004

DCD Business Report archives from March 2004

The What and the Wherefore of MPEG4.
March 1, 2004... For a format that's been tethered to MPEG2 (Motion Picture Expert Group) compression technology since the development of DVD in the mid-1990s, it's a complete break from the expected turn of business for the DVD Forum to announce that it has...

Advertising Finds New Life on Captive Audience Networks.
March 1, 2004... If there's one thing new media technology has accomplished with irreversible surety it is the creation of a new breed of viewing consumer. Set to secure TV broadcast advertising opportunities lost to digital delivery technologies such as TiVo,...

Suit, Countersuit: Litigation Keeps the Copyright Conversation Going.
March 1, 2004... In the media industry litigation has become just another way of doing business these days. In the past month alone, the heat has been turned up as the big players in the entertainment industry continue to pursue their right to royalty payments...

Discrete Track Recording Could Double Future Hard Disk Capacities.
March 1, 2004... Discrete track recording (DTR) technology from Komag, Inc., a San Jose, CA-based independent supplier of thin-film media for disk drives, is expected to facilitate significant advances in disk capacities beyond 160 GB per disk for future...

Stamp-Sized 1GB Media for Mobile Devices.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) has plans to market a new type of read-only storage media the size of a postage stamp with 1 GB of capacity. The new media is intended for use in cell phones and other mobile devices. NTT has...

G-SAM: Working the Media Technology/Business Convergence.(Global Society for Asset Management)
March 1, 2004... It will be one year this April that the Global Society for Asset Management (G-SAM) made its debut at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Conference. Returning to Las Vegas this year, G-SAM will celebrate its one-year anniversary...

Data Filter.
March 1, 2004... What's Happening?: SanDisk Corporation, of Sunnyvale, CA, is offering a new and exceptionally small removable 32-MB storage format called T-Flash. Measuring only 11mm x 15mm x 1mm, T-Flash is designed for the new third generation (3G) cell...

Inoveris Acquires Saturn Solutions In Two-Part Deal.
March 15, 2004... Inoveris of Dublin, Ohio, founded last December as a result of the sale of most of the assets of Metatec, Inc. to investment management company, MTI Acquisition, LLC, is gaining ground as a recognized leader in media supply chain management...

Wireless Video Takes A Leap With Microsoft Partnership.(TWI Interactive (TWIi) and Vidiator Technology Inc)
March 15, 2004... As mobile devices featuring video playback make their slow entrance into the consumer market--the Archos AV300 "Cinema to go" and RCA's Lyra RD2780 Audio/Video Jukebox are two products already out there--Microsoft Corp. has once again made...

Religion-Based Media Technology Meeting Launches At NAB.(National Association of Broadcasters)
March 15, 2004... Highlighting the national trend in the United States toward increasing use of new media technology by religious organizations to get their "word" out, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has decided to add a new track to its...

Analysis.(Illustration)
March 15, 2004... CEA Unit Sales to Dealers of Selected Video Products (Week ending February 27) Week to Date Sales 2004 2003 Analog Direct View TV 573,420 406,156 Analog TV/VCR 90,909 40,763 Analog TV/DVD1 39,254 ...

Digital Technology, Digital Regulations, Digital Debate....
March 15, 2004... The anticipated release this spring of TiVo devices equipped with DVD recording hardware will offer consumers yet another way to record and store TV programming for use at their own convenience. The debate on content copying, however, does not...

TiVo Projects Profitability by End of 2006.(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... TiVo of San Jose, CA, expects to claim profitability by the end of 2006. After adding a record 330,000 subscribers during the most recent quarter, the company, which currently has more than 1.3 million subscribers, said that its growing revenue...

Hybrid Cable TV Set-top/Video Game Console Proposed.(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... Stepping up the competition another notch between cable and satellite TV providers for consumer dollars, Scientific-Atlanta, a manufacturer of set-top boxes for digital TV services, told attendees at an investor conference in Dana Port, CA,...

Is A package Still A Package By Any Other Name?(entertainment industry)
March 15, 2004... In the world of content delivery the package is the box in which the media comes. Right? Well, "Yes" if you're thinking retail sales and even ecommerce, but definitely "No," if you're thinking online music sales. A quick visit to iTunes on AOL...

Data Filter.
March 15, 2004... What's Happening?: As this issue of DCD Business Report goes to press an impending joint announcement by Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Starbucks Corp. is expected to detail the launch of an in-store service that lets the coffee shop chain's...

Portable Media Centers Gain Support In A Changing Industry.
March 29, 2004... Microsoft's Portable Media Center (PMC) gained more ground last week as announcements from some of Europe's leading entertainment companies--EMI Music and Napster, LLC-- added their names to the list of supporters of the new handheld media...

More Music News...(Curb Records Inc.)(Wal-Mart Stores Inc.)(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
March 29, 2004... On the heels of the Hewlett-Packard/Starbucks agreement to offer a CD burning service for music sales at Starbucks stores across the country, it was reported by The Los Angeles Times that Sony and the McDonalds fast-food chain might partner to...

Open Architecture in the Living Room: True PC-TV Convergence.
March 29, 2004... With increasing momentum, the digital content delivery industry is trending toward more connectivity and interoperability between consumer playback devices and services. This is leading to a world in which TVs, stereos, personal computers and...

Infrastructure Company Becomes Digital Media Partner.
March 29, 2004... Seattle-based Loudeye Corporation, known for its mass storage infrastructure and media encoding services, has taken some important steps recently to becoming a major outsourcing provider of digital media services for the entertainment industry....

Data Filter.
March 29, 2004... What's Happening?: U.S. Digital Television, Inc. (USDTV) has launched the first "over-the-air" digital TV subscription service in the United States. The $19.95 per month service will broadcast local, national and popular premium channels in...

U.S. Online Population Passes 200 Million Mark.(internet access survey)
March 29, 2004... In a recent report from Nielsen/NetRatings, nearly 75 percent or 204.3 million Americans have access to the Internet from their homes. This represents a growth rate of 9 percent year over year and a jump from 66 percent U.S. household...

Proposed California Legislation Challenges Privacy and Fair Use.
March 29, 2004... The California Legislature is considering a pair of bills that would require anyone who knowingly disseminates copyrighted material over the Internet to mark it with their name and address. California Assembly Bill 2735 introduced by Assembly...

Phoenix Technologies Releases DRM-Equipped BIOS.(digital rights management)
March 29, 2004... With digital rights management (DRM) taking its place as a major component of computing and consumer electronics rich media content delivery, Phoenix Technologies of Milpitas, CA, a manufacturer of computer BIOS, this week released cME...

InPhase Rolls Out Blue Laser Holographic Media.(InPhase Technologies)
March 29, 2004... InPhase Technologies of Longmont, CO, is shipping the first blue laser holographic media that enables greater amounts of information to be stored on a single disc. The new media, Tapestry HDS5000, developed in part with funds from the National...