Articles Listing – 2007 (March-April)
MARCH ASDA sells Casino Royale at cut price – £7 (€10.30) VMD replication lines for Russia's Bars Media Group First independent Blu-ray film distributor set up BVA Awards celebrate good marketing, authoring practice China pursues pirates, but fines too small, says MPA Cinram Q4 2006 net profit up 26%, down 60% in FY2006 eBay partners with FACT to fight pirated DVD trade Consumer electronics – buying green is tough act Germany's DVD unit sales up, revenues down Guatemala police nets 1m counterfeit discs in city raids European HD DVD Promotion Group set up; 600 titles in 2007 Car hire Hertz offers portable DVD players Most movie downloading illegal despite access to pay services DVD copying home server in 'fair use' court case LOVEFILM launches download-to-burn service Online DVD rental service considers £100m flotation Malaysia pirates put bounty on DVD sniffer dogs War of the format worlds played at MEDIA-TECH theatre HD-VMD available in Europe through French connection ODS settles MPEG-2 licenses issue with MPEG LA Original Video kiosk celebrates 1st year in UK/Ireland Sony DADC helps Singulus, Oerlikon get BD DL lines out TDK introduces world's first thermal printable BD-R discs Thomson to open R&D center in India APRIL Optical disc technology on track for 200GB and beyond AACS LA announces security updates Americ Disc, Dering in CD/DVD manufacturing joint venture Brazil counterfeit raids net $100,000+ China Film Group plans new DVD manufacturing facility 59 million DVD recorders forecast to ship by 2011 DVDA Excellence Awards announced; DVDA-UK launched UK's first street posters hitting at film piracy Ruling for Kaleidescape in DVD CCA challenge Swedish optical disc tool maker M2 restructures Mempile develops 1TB multilayer disc Mexican police seize 25 tons of counterfeit material EXCLUSIVE Growing the DVD business in Morocco MPAA committed to interoperability, DRM Planet Optical Disc to bring HD VMD to Middle East Major distribution deals for HD VMD format in France News of $299 HD DVD player premature Physical media value dropped 13% in 2006, RIAA says DVD street sales in Russia outlawed Samsung hedges bets with dual-format HD player Paris court upholds no right to private DVD copying Sony updates ARccOS protection after incompatibility hitch DATA Strategy Analytics online video revenue forecasts Taiwan film distributor traps illegal DVD traders Imation acquires TDK' recordable media business CMC Magnetics settles patent, slow to produce HD discs China's Citron found in $36 million breach of DVD6C Licenses Toshiba files complaint for DVD patent infringement Godzilla creator brings HD VMD format to Japan WTO copyright case against China planned by US Microsoft unwraps Xbox 360 Elite ZOOtech expands Int'l Business Development team
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