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 [...]
India: UTV Motion Pictures and Ashutosh Gowariker Productions’ co-production Jodhaa Akbar, a film following the romance between Mughal Emperor Akbar and Rajput princess Jodhaa, will premiere on 1,500 screens across 26 countries worldwide on February 15, 2008.
Directed by Ashutosh [...]
Hong Kong: The Motion Picture Association’s (MPA) Asia-Pacific wide anti-piracy enforcement operation, Operation Blackout, that ran from November 2007 - January 2008, has resulted in the arrest of 675 suspected pirates, seizures of more than 2.6 million pirated discs and 1,200 disc [...]
USA: Christie, provider of visual solutions for business, entertainment and industry, has introduced the LX500 projector.
The Christie LX500 provides up to 5000 ANSI lumens and 1000:1 contrast ratio which offers clarity sufficient for medium to large conference or training centers. [...]
Hong Kong/ Malaysia – Malaysia’s Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (MDTCA), and the Malaysian Federation Against Copyright Theft (MFACT), which represents the Motion Picture Association (MPA), raided three pirate optical disc burner labs and a related printing facility [...]
Motion Pictures Association (MPA) and anti-piracy authorities across Asia Pacific have launched Operation Blackout, a year-long region-wide anti-piracy enforcement campaign. Operation Blackout will cover Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, [...]
Macau: Cathay Cineplexes will be installing Sony’s new CineAlta 4K SRX-R220 digital cinema projectors, LMT-100 Media Block servers and LSM-100 Screen Management System in two of its cineplexes including its flagship The Cathay Cineplex by early 2008. Cathay is also planning to introduce [...]
France / USA / Singapore / Macau: Thomson, through its Technicolor Digital Cinema business, has partnered Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) to establish a digital cinema hub and network operations center (NOC) in Singapore.
Slated to begin from mid-2008, Thomson, [...]
Japan: Inter BEE 2007, the trade show for audio, video and communications has opened on Nov 20 across Halls 2 - 8 at the Makuhari Messe in Tokyo to record participation.
Inter BEE 2007 registered a record 754 exhibitors and 2,013 exhibition booths, an increase of 21 participants [...]
Norway: Cinevation AS, manufacturer of real time film recording and direct-to-print systems has introduced real time film recorder/printer Cinevatorhd.
The Cinevatorhd film recorder, based on DLP technology from Texas Instruments, allows recording at 24/25 fps in native HD resolution [...]