Posted by Jonny on November 2nd, 2008 under Apple, News
The crunch is beginning to impact the DVD movie market, as consumers turn to online services, spurn luxury items as recession bites and thoughts turn to Christmas, with some optimistic the fall in demand for pre-recorded DVD titles (films) suggests a move to Blu-ray (it won’t).
Taiwan’s pre-recorded DVD manufacturers have revealed orders for DVD films have fallen, “short of their expectations by 30-40%”, a report explains.
Posted by Jonny on September 15th, 2008 under Apple, News
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, eBay CEO John Donahue, Which? director Peter Vicar and other leading tech industry folks will be flying into Europe to attend a private EU conference on online sales of music and consumer goods.
Led by consumer champions such as Peter Vicar, the summit will look at and review cross-border sales of music and other goods over the internet.
EU competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, says the meeting aims to resolve problems when purchasing products online from countries outside of your own - particularly in Europe, a federation of states whose citizens are meant to be able to freely shop around for the best available deal under free market regulation. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Jonny on September 13th, 2008 under News
BBC Radio 3 is to film a series of up to 12 concerts given by its own performing groups to be broadcast on the channel from 26 September, and then made available for online viewing.
The concerts - by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers – will first be broadcast on Radio 3’s Performance on 3 (weekdays at 7.00pm) and then be made available online for audiences to watch in high quality vision, as well as hear.
Music-lovers will be able to watch the performances and watch interviews with artists and composers about the music. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Jonny on September 12th, 2008 under News
Anthony Rose, head of the BBC’s digital media technology and former CTO of Kazaa has made a big promise to the millions in the UK already enjoying iPlayer content.
Speaking to Jeremy Kirk, he promised the broadcaster would continue to innovate its service, introducing new social networking features soon to make the whole experience of TV-watching online a more collaborative experience.
“”Last year, the BBC chose what you watched,” Rose said. “This year, you choose what you want, and next year your friends will help you pick what you want to watch.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Jonny on September 10th, 2008 under News
Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger today called on ISPs to ban people who illegally download content.
Disney owns US network ABC and produces a range of hit shows including Desperate Housewives and Lost. Iger was speaking in London.
Iger was referring to the recently-announced deal under which six of the UK’s biggest ISPs will begin sending warning letters to customers that copyright bodies claim have downloaded content. Read the rest of this entry »
BBC Four, CBBC and CBeebies will be available to watch live online from 16 September 2008, Jana Bennett, Director of BBC Vision, announced today.
The channels join BBC Three and BBC News which are already simulcast, and can be watched online via their channel sites on bbc.co.uk through a wide range of internet enabled devices and also using iPlayer (available on a computer and a range of other devices, including the ever-popular iPhone). Read the rest of this entry »
It’s your internet, and if you want to ensure you can access the smaller blogs (like mine) and music services with freedom, rather than being coralled to the websites of bigger companies with the power and money to pay for the bandwidth you use up, you’d best get involved in acting to protect net neutrality.
Good news is that you won’t be fighting alone, now UK artists and label managers are getting involved in the campaign to protect net neutrality, which is threatened by ISPs who want to artifically change the way the web works.
The StreamSmart project is dedicated to creating a platform for playing content from Sirius XM on a range of devices, including the iPhone. As a general purpose it resonates with the BBC’s plan for ubiquitous device-agnostic future broadcasting through iPlayer. Read the rest of this entry »
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