Industry Report: Digital
21/06/2012 - The state of play of the first steps in what will be a mammoth change.
Deluxe Digital launches European movie delivery service
Deluxe Digital Cinema, the London-based operation, is launching a Europe-wide fibre-based movie delivery service for distributors and exhibitors, in association with Hewlett-Packard. The network aims to link up most of Europe's sites to this network, using local partners where viable for digital cinema content services, bringing local content into the equation.
Innovative 3D Technology And Multi-Platform Projects
Canadian 3D technology and multi-platform projects will be in the spotlight at the 50th edition of MIPTV
Verizon Identifies Five Key Business-Tech Trends in 2013 for Enterprises
Cloud, Connected Machines, Mobility, Intelligent Networks and Security Tip the Scales of Opportunity
Cross-Media Creative Shot, with Fourth Wall Studios
Founder/CEO Jim Stewartson talks about rides.tv, his platform for true transmedia storytelling
Towards Transparency 2.0 - Focus on Media Concentration
Almost 200 media professionals and decision makers attended the European Audiovisual Observatory 20th anniversary conference on media concentration on 7 November in Strasbourg.
Digital deal making trends in the TV industry
There has been a lot of talk about innovative business models around TV at MIPCube and MIPTV this year, but what about the legal hurdles that lurk as media rights converge?
Content Originals in the Digital Space
BBC Worldwide’s Gary Woolf moderated this session on producing content for digital. Orange’s gaming and transmedia head, Jean-François Rodriguez, kicked off with a trailer for Alt-Minds, a transmedia game/series coproduced by Lexis Numérique and written by Eric Viennot.
Multi-Platform storytelling - from idea to market
Multi-platform Storytelling: From Idea to Market provided case studies and practical guidance on creating multi-platform strategies for features, TV drama, documentary, game or online projects.
How Technology is Changing the Movie Theater Business
Little Hobbits seem to have a big impact-not only in the mythology of Middle Earth, but in the real world, where the release of the much-anticipated film "The Hobbit" is expected to bring major changes to the movie theater business, potentially requiring new investments in digital projection technology in order to support the film's higher frame rates.
How to write a transmedia production bible
Best-practice guide to develop a property across multiple platforms
2011 Power to the Pixel's live report
Power to the Pixel's fifth annual Cross-Media Forum gathers some of the leading figures in international cross-media. They are coming to London to share their ideas and experience with people working in sectors which touch on all aspects of cross-media creation, financing and distribution.
Cinema and New Technologies
Michael Gubbins, former Editor in Chief of Screen International and consultant specialising in film and media with a particular focus on digital change, gave a speech about «Cinema and New Technologies» during the seminar European Animated Features Growing Stronger organised by Cartoon from the 22nd to the 24th of November in Munich.
The Third Dimension
In 2004 there were thirty digital screens in Europe. Today they have grown to almost seven thousand: has the digital revolution taken place? Yes and no, considering that despite the undeniable boom starting in 2009 and continuing throughout 2010, four fifths of the Continent’s total screens still rely on 35mm.What certainly has come about is the “3D revolution”.
Pacific Media Associates Predicts Nearly 40% Annual Growth in Projector Market
According to Pacific Media Associates (PMA), the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, the worldwide front projector market will grow to a total of 8.65 million units in 2010 from its 2009 level of 6.33 million units
Kodak Announces Revolutionary 3D Digital Movie Projection Technology
Eastman Kodak Company announced that it has developed revolutionary laser projection technology that delivers both 2D and bright 3D images within today's stringent technical standards for digital motion picture presentation
The European cinema experts meet in Barcelona to discuss the challenge of digitalisation
Today the digital transition is the burning issue for the cinema industry
National policies towards digital media and entertainment / The case of France
Valérie Bourgoin, Head of Video and Digital Creation at the CNC, presented the CNC support to digitalisation, cross-media development and video game creation.
Cross-media: the range of possibilities
Leading practices were discussed during Pixel, the first cross-media international film forum, held in Paris in December 2009.
Forward thinking: empowering the storyteller
Forward thinking: cross-media value
Videos Cross-Media Film Forum
See the videos online about Power to the Pixel's Cross Media Film Forum
Forward thinking: the cross-media future
Videos from the training course Insight Out about Digital production
9 video interviews about digital production (March, 2009): Stereo 3D Basics, Sterescopic 3D Production, Trailer INSIGHT OUT 2010, VFX for Stereo 3D and more.
Creative Content in a European Digital Single Market: Challenges for the Future
The European Commission launched a reflection paper on a European Digital Single Market and launched a public consultation calling for fresh ideas for a more vibrant market for online distribution of creative content. The paper highlights the importance of copyright as a basis for creativity in, Europe's cultural heritage.
The European Audiovisual Observatory in Cannes in 2010
European digital screen base grows by 70% in 2008
Digital cinema is gaining ground in Europe. According to the figures provided by MEDIA Salles, the number of digital screens equipped with DLP Cinema or Sony 4K technology increased during 2008 by 70% to 1 529 digital screens as of 1 January 2009.
ZaOza, the multimedia portal of Vivendi giant
ZaOza: Vivendi new mobile brand. The approach of this new service is to respond to a new consumption model: direct-to-consumer distribution model.
New Strategies, New Media - Directing Marketing Campaigns on the New Media
María Jesús Molero explains how TV advertising is losing its effectiveness and profitability and why future marketing campaigns need to target the new media like WEB.0 and mobile.
Exploiting Properties on New Media
Isabelle Denis, Director of Mediatoon Interactive, presented the different strategies her group had been using to be present on the new digital platforms and explains why a multi-platform approach is inevitable when looking at the evolution in the consumption habits.
Round Table on «IPTV: A New Distribution Form»
Four IPTV developers show this business model is something which was not considered initially, but it has led to relevant outcomes.
Multi-platform Strategies of the BBC
The web is more than a new distribution platform for TV. Marc Goodchild explains why BBC acknowledged the need to develop web-only products and the importance of interactivity.
Europe on threshold of digital fracture
The transition to digital projection in European theatres was the subject of a speech given on Saturday by Véronique Cayla, director general of the National Film Centre (CNC), as part of the Dijon Film Meetings organised by the ARP. Calling on territorial collectivities (cities, departments and regions) to study the issue in order to protect France’s excellent network of cinemas, Cayla reminded those present that the CNC is able to provide them with a tool for the economic simulation of the...
Drop in European audiences
The slow growth of European multiplexes continues: almost 6.000 digital screens throughout the world.
From Analogue to Digital Distribution and Exploitation
Digital Projection: Between Brake and Accelerator
During the 6th IDIFF (International Digital Film Forum) in Paris French and European professionals talked about the contrasted growing of the digital projection in Europe.
Piracy in France
CNC and ALPA have realized a study on the audiovisual offer in French downloadable form internet. The films proposed are more and more various, while there is a diversification of the sources of piracy.
Digital Distribution: A Tipping Point For Digital Cinema Development
The latest report from media analysts argues that Europe has reached a tipping point for digital cinema development and is ready for a wide-scale roll-out, although it would be naive to suggest that the conversion to digital is proving easy. There are also signs that commercial progress is faster in the UK than elsewhere.
Pioneers Of The Digital Revolution
The article is a summary of the Power To The Pixel Conference which was held at the London Film Festival. A new generation of filmmakers, distributors and marketers discussed the myriad ways that the digital revolution is upending the traditional methods of film distribution, and that a new way of reaching audiences is becoming viable and infinitely malleable.
The Spread of D-Cinema : 2006 Year of the Watersheed
2006 was the year of exceptional growth of digital screens. Asia and Europe continued to grow as in the past, whilst North America took a stride forward with the growth of 1,031%. The article presents a forecast according to which it is estimated that 35mm will be overtaken in 2013.
Beaune 2005 - Meetings
Digital: the great challengeThe article summarises a debate on the transition “of the photochemical and analogue universe to the digital era” which took place during the 15th Rencontres de Beaune. The participants expressed their concerns and fears about the technological progress and possible strategy of adaptation. The keys to financing a digital equipment were discussed as well.
Beaune 2003 - Meetings
Taming the digital dragonThere are currently two important questions that have simultaneously led to a re-think about the role of cinema over the next ten years: the enlargement of the EU in 2004, and the digital revolution faced by cinema operators. The article focuses more on the second issue and presents possible risks and benefits from the digitalization.
Cartoon Forum Varese 2003
The European market for animation cineIn September 2003, for the 14th edition of the European market of animation films, the Cartoon Forum, Varese was turned into the cartoon capital. The article presents a list of future projects for the short and medium term. There is also an interview with Max Gusberti, the deputy director of RAI Fiction, and Manuel Cristobal, the producer of the first European 3D animated feature length film.
European TV: Public Broadcasters in the digital era
European televisions are passing to digital, not without encountering some obstacles. With a skeptic population, operators and distributors are seeking the best ways to defend their interests.
