More Articles By Paul Sweeting
- OPINION: DVD revival
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda MARCH 7 | In the aftermath of Blu-ray ’s victory over HD DVD , many commentators predicted Blu-ray’s reign would be short lived, soon to be done in by digital downloads. But Blu-ray supporters’ biggest immediate challenge is to get consumers to make the leap from standard DVD to high-def. More - 2007 box office admissions flat, prices up
MARCH 5 | FROM CONTENTAGENDA: Total U.S. and Canadian movie theater receipts surged 5.4% in 2007, to $9.63 billion, thanks to a 5% increase in average ticket prices, according to annual data released Wednesday by the Motion Picture Assn. of America. More - OPINION: Traffic jams on broadband
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda FEB. 29 | WHILE POLITICS can make for strange bedfellows, it can also make for exceedingly awkward ones. Case in point: the Motion Picture Assn. of America’s comments to the Federal Communications Commission regarding broadband network practices. More - OPINION: Blu blues
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda FEB. 22 | The format war has been a remarkable story to cover, not least because it’s a story of how individual companies, pursuing narrow, often parochial interests, led to the industry’s adopting what—I’ll now confess—I’ve always believed is the wrong format. More - OPINION: Political plans
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda FEB. 15 | WASHINGTON— The studios’ anti-piracy agenda here has begun to run into a political and regulatory headwind that could jeopardize their hopes of persuading Internet service providers and other network operators to crack down on unchecked file-sharing. More - OPINION: A third party
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda FEB. 8 | It’s too early yet to know the full impact of Warner Bros.’ embrace of Blu-ray Disc on the battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD, but the expectation that it would bring clarity to the high-def DVD business still looks like a long shot. More - OPINION: Web numbers
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda JAN. 25 | The 2008 Digital Music Report released this week by the IFPI , the global music industry association, is a truly remarkable document. More - OPINION: Ripe or rotten?
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda JAN. 18 | After pummeling shares of Blockbuster and Netflix on Tuesday following Steve Jobs’ announcement of the iTunes Movie Rental store, investors reversed course on Wednesday, having apparently concluded that the Apple announcement did not mean the end of the DVD rental business as we know it after all. More - OPINION: The race for fourth
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda JAN. 11 | FROM CONTENT AGENDA: In the high-def DVD sweepstakes, Paramount and Universal have lost the race to be third. More - CES: Studios see big swell ahead for online distribution
JAN. 7| LAS VEGAS —Top digital executives from four major studios on Monday predicted an explosion of professionally produced video content on the Internet in 2008, driven by improved streaming quality, the proliferation of video-capable devices and the media companies’ need to find new business models for their content. More - OPINION: The Content/Technology Agenda for 2008
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda JAN. 4 | The International Consumer Electronics Show has become a major meeting place for the technology and entertainment industries, sometimes to cooperate, sometimes to argue, sometimes just to look each other over. More - DVD-CCA files brief in Kaleidescape appeal
DEC. 18 | FROM CONTENTAGENDA: The DVD Copy Control Assn. filed its initial appellate brief Monday with the California Court of Appeal in the Kaleidescape case. The brief asks the court to overrule the trial judge in the case, who found that Kaleidescape had not breached the CSS license agreement in designing its home-media servers. More - OPINION: Piracy billing
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda DEC. 14 | WASHINGTON — The most ambitious intellectual property bill since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act got its first hearing before the House Judiciary Committee . More - OPINION: Seeking copyright parity
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda DEC. 7 | The massive intellectual property bill introduced this week by the bi-partisan leadership of the House Judiciary Committee is a marked departure from previous IP legislation. More - OPINION: Sony plays hardball
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda NOV. 30 | Whether out of desperation or strategic planning, Sony finally seems to be taking bold steps to reclaim some of its lost stature. More - Slowing DVD sales could sink studios
NOV. 27 | FROM CONTENTAGENDA: Slowing sales of DVDs is undercutting studio profits and could eventually impact the valuations of several major media companies, a Wall Street analyst said Monday. More - OPINON: Web 2.slow
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda NOV. 21 | The report released Monday on the limits of Internet capacity , by Mokena, Ill.-based Nemertes Research, should be required reading for anyone involved in developing new, bandwidth-heavy applications for the Web, like video delivery . More - Copyright group wades into presidential campaign
NOV. 20 | FROM CONTENTAGENDA: WASHINGTON— The Copyright Alliance, made up of a broad range of industry groups and companies with a shared interest in promoting intellectual property rights, on Tuesday sent questionnaires to all 17 presidential campaigns soliciting their positions on copyright protection and enforcement. More - Senators question Mature rating of Manhunt 2 videogame
NOV. 19 | WASHINGTON— Four U.S. senators released a letter they sent Monday to the president of the videogame ratings board calling for a “thorough review” of the system in the wake of Rockstar Games’ Manhunt 2 receiving a “Mature” rating, rather than the more restrictive “Adults Only” designation, after the publisher made some minor revisions to the game. More - OPINION: High-def tortoise and the hare
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda NOV. 16 | While the two warring hardware camps lurch through another inconclusive fourth-quarter, keeping befuddled consumers on the sidelines, high-definition video is starting to find its way onto the Internet as technology providers begin to piece together the necessary infrastructure. More
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