Articles Listing – 2006 (January-February)
JANUARY AACS consortium to require analogue signal restriction $3.7m pirate DVD lab busted in Australia Blu-ray Disc format specs completed, open for licensing New chip decodes both Blu-ray and HD-DVD CDA strengthens sales team UK disc counterfeiter ordered to repay £59,000 Rank disposes of Deluxe Film for $750 million Top adult video publisher backs Blu-ray dr.schwab opens US Service Center El Salvador pirates protest new copyright laws Chinese EVD/VMD hi-def DVD players readied for March launch SmartMark anti-piracy technology to protect film distribution 20th Century Fox to stop retailer screeners Bill Gates: 'Beating piracy in China, India will take 10 years' Hong Kong busts website selling Japanese DVDs 'Magnetic tapes better storage devices than recordable discs' Imation to acquire Memorex 'DVD Jon' now wants to crack next-gen formats' AACS LoveFilm movie download service launched Malaysian disc counterfeiters arrested CES Next-generation DVD players – the pictures. 20th Century Fox to stop retailer screeners Pioneer unveils combo Blu-ray/DVD/CD burner Pioneer DVR-111 series shipping in March Making sense of the Munich screener 'debacle' Growth in Europe video market comes to an end Singulus completes acquisition of competitor Steag HamaTech Sonic debuts DVD on Demand kit for electronic sell-though material Sonopress to show DualDisc services at MIDEM Taiwanese get Sony order for portable DVD players Seven arrested in the Revenge of the Sith pre-release piracy Stream doubles design capacity with new hires Sonic, Technicolor produce first interactive BD and HD DVD discs CES Toshiba's $499 HD DVD player to ship in March First hi-def DVD player in pre-order retail pipeline High-definition DVD hardware and software forecasts Verbatim to roll out new LightScribe media for faster label printing State funded piracy operation uncovered CES Weinstein, Canal Studio to release HD DVD titles FEBRUARY Warner, Amazon to launch movie downloads Rob Barnes to head Services at AudioDev UK film first to get simultaneous release Direct-to-DVD titles sell 1 million a week Dolby Laboratories appoints new head of consumer division Study highlights importance of Surround Sound to DVD users DVD players used to smuggle guns EC ends probe into Philips CD-R disc patent licensing French court overturns Mulholland Drive ruling Next-generation DVD to use HDTV output until 2011 How holographic technology works Imation unveils printable discs with improved surface Replicator kdg sells poorly-performing UK subsidiary Direct-to-DVD series to teach financial literacy to kids DVD and Next Generation DVD Penetration in Europe - Table US nationwide launch for revived on-demand MovieBeam Nero, Samsung to bring out first functional Blu-ray devices Clampdown on DVD crime in pubs ANALYSIS The staggering of international releases ANALYSIS DVD bucks the downturn in packaged entertainment French video publishers' 2005 revenue down 12% Sonic Solutions reports record profits Sonopress now replicates memory cards Sony Pictures unveils plans for UMD/DVD bundles
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