More Articles By Paul Sweeting
- CinemaNow, Sonic offer CSS-enabled burning
NOV. 6 | Video download service CinemaNow and Sonic Solutions on Tuesday will announce a deal to bundle access to CinemaNow’s library of movie and TV content with Sonic’s Roxio Venue download management software. The deal between CinemaNow and Sonic will mark the first major consumer application of CSS-enabled burning. More - OPINION: Copy regime
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda NOV. 2 | A proposal by three studios to establish a managed-copy regime for DVDs could get derailed this week by continued legal skirmishing between the DVD Copy Control Assn. and Kaleidescape Systems , a maker of high-end home media servers. More - OPINION: Movie downloads 101
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda OCT. 26 | The five studios behind Movielink sank $148 million and change into the download venture over six years before selling it to Blockbuster earlier this year for a kind word and a handshake. Call it the price of an education. More - OPINION: Filtering YouTube
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda OCT. 19 | The digital-rights management wars more or less officially entered a new phase this week with the unveiling of Google ’s long-promised content filtering system for YouTube . More - Media, tech companies call for filtering standards
OCT. 18 | FROM CONTENT AGENDA: A group of major media companies and platform providers released a “statement of principles” regarding the protection of copyrighted content on user-generated video platforms—and it’s quite an eyeful. More - AACS still trying to manage copying
OCT. 15 | FROM CONTENTAGENDA: The AACS Licensing Administrator has finally wised up and stopping giving estimates of when it might finish work on a final DRM license. The eight member companies of AACS-LA met in Japan last week, where they inched the ball forward but still have much to do. More - OPINION: Leveling the scale
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda OCT. 12 | “ BitTorrent ” is still a dirty word in Hollywood. But with its announcement this week that it has begun licensing its Digital Network Accelerator (DNA) service to online video providers, BitTorrent Inc. has taken a significant step toward resolving scalability . More - OPINION: By the numbers
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda OCT. 5 | The Institute for Policy Innovation, a Texas-based pro-business think tank, released a report this week that estimates total losses to piracy for four “core” U.S. copyright industries at $58 billion per year. More - Study puts U.S. losses from piracy at $58 bil.
OCT. 3 | FROM CONTENT AGENDA: The Institute for Policy Innovation, a pro-business think tank based in Dallas, Texas, will release a new study Wednesday pegging total losses to the U.S. economy from copyright piracy at $58 billion. More - Warner burns up Japan
OCT. 1 | FROM CONTENT AGENDA: Proponents of on-demand manufacturing and in-home burning of DVDs wondering whether the major studios are ready to embrace the new business model can look to Japan for comfort. More - Blu-ray eyeing China
OCT. 1 | FROM CONTENT AGENDA: After initially turning a cold shoulder to China, the Blu-ray Disc Assn. is warming up to Chinese OEMs and consumers, BDA spokesman and Pioneer Electronics senior VP Andy Parsons tells Content Agenda. More - OPINION: No high-def tipping point
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda SEPT. 28 | When Paramount Home Entertainment made the switch from supporting both high-definition formats to supporting HD DVD exclusively, PHE president Kelly Avery stressed the need to concentrate on a single, low-cost format that would kick-start the high-def market. More - Companies move ahead with DVD burning plans
SEPT. 27 | Disc-burning kiosk companies and movie download services are moving forward with plans for on-demand DVD burning following the DVD Copy Control Assn. approval last week of on-demand manufacturing using CSS encryption. More - Consumer backlash against DRM could fire
SEPT. 19 | NEW YORK— The reason consumers hate digital rights management isn’t due to the technology itself but to how copyright owners have used it, DRM providers said at the Digital Rights Strategies conference here this week. More - Online video still looking for answers
SEPT. 18 | FROM CONTENT AGENDA: NEW YORK-- CBS Interactive exec VP Patrick Keane said his network sees more potential in pushing online video out to where users already congregate, through as many platforms as possible, than in trying to aggregate viewers at a single Web address. More - OPINION: Fueling the fire
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda SEPT. 14 | Hopes (or fears) that Warner Home Video would drop its support for Blu-ray in return for a pile of cash from the HD DVD camp, thus returning the high-def format war to its original three-to-three studio balance, were dashed this week—at least for now. More - OPINION: High-def lite
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda AUG. 31 | Upconversion circuitry is becoming a standard and expected feature in replacement DVD players. And as consumers wait out the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc , it’s becoming the default reference spec for “high-def” DVD. More - OPINION: Choosing sides
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda AUG. 24 | Much has been made that the decision by Paramount and DreamWorks to support HD DVD exclusively was greased by cash payments and “promotional considerations.” While I have no trouble believing that promotional considerations were involved, as an explanation for such a significant step at this stage, it doesn’t add up. More - OPINION: Ark, anyone?
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda AUG. 17 | Bret Swanson of the Discovery Institute wrote an influential article earlier this year called “The Coming Exaflood,” referring to the flood of data threatening to swamp the Internet as new bandwidth-heavy applications grow in popularity. More - No movement yet on DVD-CCA amendment
AUG. 16 | The ongoing legal skirmish between the DVD Copy Control Assn. and home media server marketer Kaleidescape Systems flared again last week. The CSS licensing agent issued its first formal response to Kaleidescape’s earlier threat to bring an anti-trust action against the group if it proceeded with a proposed amendment to the specifications governing the design of DVD drives. More
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