DCD Business Report articles from October 2004

DCD Business Report archives from October 2004

AT&T Music Store Highlights Cellular Phone Company Market Vision.
October 13, 2004... AT&T's new mMode Music Store, opened last week, is the first big entrant into music distribution via cellular phones--at least the new service smacks of wireless distribution because it's offered by AT&T--but customers will still have to...

Microsoft's MSN TV2 Challenges Long-Held TV Viewing Patterns.
October 13, 2004... As part of its ongoing foray into the world of consumer electronics, Microsoft has yet again taken the lead in PC/TV convergence with the October 5 release of its MSN TV2 Internet and Media Player. As this issue of DCD Business Report goes to...

IP Legal Battles Continue On Both Sides of Atlantic.(intellectual property )
October 13, 2004... It's the same old story, played over and over again, as music industry majors fight to maintain control of their intellectual property (IP), while technology companies and users continue to push the envelope, claiming innovation moves the media...

Data Filter.
October 13, 2004... What's Happening: Digital Cinema takes a step forward as Canadian movie studio Lions Gate Films partners with AMC Theaters for the wide release of "The Final Cut" via digital cinema technology. Under the terms, Lions Gate will release the film...

20 Top-selling DVDs (Week ending 10/03/04).(Digital videodisks)
October 13, 2004... Weeks Last This On Label Week Week Title 1 MGM --- 1 WALKING TALL 3 Fox 1 2 STAR WARS TRILOGY 1 Universal --- 3 ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND 1 ...

CEA Sales of Selected Video Products.(Consumer Electronics Association )
October 13, 2004... Week 38 Ending Sept. 24, 2004 2004 2003 Percent Change Analog Direct View Televisions 507,261 459,633 10.40% Analog TV/VCR Combinations 33,589 79,001 -57.50% Analog TV/DVD1 ...

Digital Games Downloads Intensify: Females A Growing Demographic.
October 13, 2004... Similar to challenges facing the music and movie business, electronic games publishers have had to deal with increasing pressure to deliver product over the Internet. The word in the market suggests that during the upcoming holiday shopping...

Nintendo Details New DS Handheld Features.(Brief Article)
October 13, 2004... Nintendo has provided new details on the wireless capabilities of its upcoming dual-screened "DS" handheld video game device. Scheduled for release in the United States on November 21, the device will enable wireless multiplayer gaming, now a...

BBC Demonstrates Open Source Video Codec.(BBC Research and Development Division)(Brief Article)
October 13, 2004... Developers at the BBC Research and Development Division, led by Dr. Thomas Davies, have demonstrated an early version of an open source codec positioned to compete with existing proprietary video compression technology, according to industry...

SnapStream Media Releases New PVR Technology.(Brief Article)
October 13, 2004... SnapStream Media, Inc., a supplier of digital home entertainment products, has released Beyond TV version 3.5. This version incorporates support for Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Center and extends license provisions so viewers...

Online DVD Rental Emporiums Enter Pricing War.
October 27, 2004... It has been said many times that success in the online media business rests on two factors--an existing billing relationship with customers, and brand name. For online DVD rental companies Netflix and Blockbuster Inc., the more recent entrant...

Video Internet Distribution Platform Resembles P2P.(NetcableTV)
October 27, 2004... Internet video distribution featuring a peer share format is big news in an era when peer-to-peer (P2P) delivery models for music content, legal and otherwise, have set an entire industry into motion. Operating out of Wellesley, Mass., and...

AVC-Based IP TV and VOD System Debuts at SMPTE.(Brief Article)
October 27, 2004... Modulus Video, Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., a developer of video codecs, in collaboration with Sentivision K.K., a Tokyo-based digital media technology provider, debuted an interoperable real-time MPEG-4 AVC distribution system for DSL delivery...

Would You Like Some Music With Your Latte?(Starbucks Corp.)
October 27, 2004... Entertainment content and the ways in which consumers are finding and purchasing it are changing as nontraditional businesses are making their way into the media distribution business. For the music industry in particular, which has been...

Data Filter.
October 27, 2004... What's Happening: Industry speculation coming from a recent panel discussion held by the Cato Institute, a Libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C., claims that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will support record...

DVD Continues to Break Industry Records.
October 27, 2004... Newly compiled figures released by the Digital Entertainment Group (DEG), an entertainment industry organization dedicated to advocating the DVD format and comprised of major Hollywood studios and suppliers of DVD hardware, show that the DVD...

New Network Provides Media Services to College Campuses.(Ruckus Network )(Brief Article)
October 27, 2004... While well-known companies fight it out over market share in the consumer media distribution market arena, new entrants to the digital media domain are identifying unique and targeted market segments and claiming their pieces of the digital...

Monitoring The TV Set-Top Box Market.
October 27, 2004... Digital pay-per-view and video-on-demand (VOD) television services through set-top boxes (STBs) are making further in-roads into households worldwide whether through cable and satellite services or the Internet. Two recently released reports...

Portable Storage Round Up.
October 27, 2004... As all forms of digital media continue to make their way to increasingly smaller and more complex portable data devices, developments within the data storage industry are moving quickly to keep up with demand--from technology innovation to...