Singapore - Cathay Cineplexes and Sony installed the CineAlta 4K Digital Cinema Systems at two Cathay Cineplexes in Singapore. The Cathay and Cathay Cineleisure Orchard are now equipped with the Sony CineAlta 4K Digital SRX-R220 system, the first installations in Asia.
The ultra-high-resolution [...]
Los Angeles – 3DX: 3D Film & Entertainment Technology Festival, the world’s first fully 3D-based film and entertainment technology festival will be held November 19 – 23, 2008 in Singapore. The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) will host the festival, with 3D Partners [...]
Brighton, UK – UK-based digital agency iTherapy Ltd has launched Reel Show, www.reel-show.tv, an online TV channel to offer original content and information on film and TV production for industry creatives.
Content includes behind-the-scenes film set footage, independent product [...]
India's leading media and entertainment executives will discuss their country's rapid growth in the entertainment industry on April 16, during the NAB Show in Las Vegas.
The super session, titled "Tune-in to India's Entertainment Economy - From Emerging to Surging," will be led [...]
USA: Beijing-based China Film Archive (CFA) and Hualong Film Digital Productions Co. Ltd. are using nine da Vinci Systems’ Revival image restoration systems for a multi-year project to salvage, repair, clean, and protect some 5,000 films from the 102-year history of Chinese cinema.
The [...]
India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has called for the domestic entertainment industry to look inward and tackle piracy at its source.
Delivering her inaugural address at the 9th FICCI Frames in Mumbai last week, Ms Asha Swarup, secretary (MIB), said more initiatives [...]
Hong Kong/Malaysia: The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (MDTCA), with support from the Malaysian Federation Against Copyright Theft (MFACT), representative of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in Malaysia, seized 323 DVD-R burners from the 11th DVD-R burner lab [...]
Hong Kong/Thailand: The Motion Picture Association (MPA), Economic and Technological Crime Suppression Division (ECOTEC) of the Royal Thai Police on February 19, 2008, raided a Bangkok residence and seized 170 DVD-R and 30 CD-R burners, along with 45,000 pirated DVD-Rs and CD-Rs [...]
Singapore: InnoForm Media, an independent entertainment distribution company focusing on Asian entertainment, has acquired Alliance Entertainment as a fully-owned subsidiary. The latter is a Singapore-based video distributor of Hollywood home entertainment labels including Warner [...]
Japan: Toshiba announced February 19, 2008, it will stop selling its HD DVD products by end-March 2008, conceding defeat to Sony’s Blu-ray format thus concluding the long-drawn DVD format war.
Industry analysts expect the withdrawal of Toshiba’s HD DVD format will ‘reduce consumer [...]