Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world. It was once so rich that Concorde used to fly from Caracas to Paris. But in the last three years its economy has collapsed. Hunger has gripped the nation for years. Now, it’s killing people and animals that are dying of starvation. The Venezuelan government knows, but won’t admit it!!! Four in five Venezuelans live in poverty. People queue for hours to buy food. Much of the time they go without. People are also dying from a lack of medicines. Inflation is at 82,766% and there are warnings it could exceed one million per cent by the end of this year. Venezuelans are trying to get out. The UN says 2.3 million people have fled the country - 7% of the population.
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Fox Finds Digital HD Not Lost in Translation With Foreign Consumers...


Fox Finds Digital HD Not Lost in Translation With Foreign Consumers...

After launching its Digital HD brand in the United States as a brand to boost the sale of its homevideo titles, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is taking the idea on the road — namely, overseas.
Switzerland is the latest country to promote Digital HD after Fox introduced the concept to consumers in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia. Altogether, the studio is selling movies on digital before they're released on DVD or Blu-ray in over 100 territories.
"Life of Pi" was the first Digital HD title to launch in Switzerland on Apple's iTunes, Microsoft's Xbox and local distributor Swiss TV, followed by "Live Free or Die Hard," "Epic" and "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters," with Fox seeing an increase in sales with each title.
This week, Sunrise, the country's second largest telecommunications provider, and HollyStar, started stepped up to back Digital HD with "The Croods," and 100 other catalog titles, with "The Wolverine" to be released Nov. 18.
Sunrise is promoting Digital HD through its various platforms, as well as through a print, online and retail campaign.
"The studio's Digital HD strategy is an aggressive response to the growing demands of Swiss fans who want the convenience, quality and most importantly immediacy to enjoy their favourite content anytime and anywhere," said Timm Degenhardt, chief marketing officer, Sunrise.
SEE ALSO: Early Digital Releases Help DreamWorks Animation Sell More Movies on Homevideo

The move to foreign markets has helped Fox increase its Digital HD business 34% over last year. Digital transactions are also up by 50% in Switzerland, according to I.H.S. Research.
The studio is clearly going after the 215 million households with HDTVs and the 780 million with broadband connected devices.
Fox was first to introduce the Digital HD brand last year with the release of "Prometheus." What's helped is a $15 price point for films and the earlier release window, typically three to four weeks before the titles bow on disc.

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China's Internet Video Giant Youku Tudou Rewards Content Creators With Revenue..


China's Internet Video Giant Youku Tudou Rewards Content Creators With Revenue..

The user-generated video site has paid out more than $500,000 to participating contributors, and offers cinematography and digital marketing seminars to top amateur talents.
A new revenue sharing program by China's biggest online video outlet, Youku Tudou, has generated more than $500,000 dollars in income for participating content creators in the four months since the initiative launched.

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STORY: Hollywood's New Gold Mine: Youku Tudou

Top video creators have earned between $3,500 and $10,000 per month from diverse content such as education, humor, games and animated commentary, the group said in a statement.

Other content includes web serials from comedians, musicians and original productions.

The figures involved are small, but they are significant.

Hollywood is watching the success of Youku Tudou closely. It is keen to exploit the opportunities offered by China's booming online video market, and it wants a platform and a revenue stream for legitimate content online in the face of rampant piracy.

The program seeks to encourage grassroots video producers to share their work with wider audiences. Youku.com and Tudou.com own the largest platform for user-generated content (UGC) in China. Smartphones and tablets are fueling the fast growth of UGC.

China is the world's largest Internet market with 591 million users, and in the last year the number of people who surf the web from smartphones and tablets rose by 20 percent.

STORY: Youku Tudou Narrows Second-Quarter Loss

Since June, views of videos in the revenue sharing program on Youku.com and Tudou.com have increased 30 percent month to month.

"We are thrilled to see such promising growth of this new initiative to reward talented content creators," said Zhu Xiangyang, chief content officer at Youku Tudou.

"Youku Tudou proudly takes the credit for nurturing China's online video talents since 2008, and we're gratified that more and more people are using video to express their thoughts and creativity," he added. "By rewarding great independent creators through this open revenue sharing platform, we look forward to further unleashing the unlimited power of user-generated content."

The top monthly earner is Li Hongchou, who started creating web serials a few years ago while in college, pulling in $12,000 in the last few months. His first hit web serial, Off-Campus Roommates, looked at young people living together in an apartment, similar to the American television series Friends.

Li now has his own studio and has produced more than 300 web episodes, netting nearly 300 million cumulative views.

Participants' videos have prioritized recommendations as well as search support and a faster upload channel. They are able to monitor their channels, income and marketing results. Youku Tudou also offers participants offline training, including cinematography, digital marketing and case study seminars. Some participants are invited to join in-house production projects initiated by Youku.com and Tudou.com.

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Study Suggests Studios Aren’t Offering Enough Online Legal Options to Counter Mo


Study Suggests Studios Aren’t Offering Enough Online Legal Options to Counter Mo

Adding to a growing body of competing data on who bears the blame for rampant online infringement, two George Mason U scholars unveiled a website that claims that few of the most pirated movies are even available online legally.

Shorter windows would help counter piracy, the authors say, though theater owners are unlikely to agree with changing windows substantially in the near future.

The site — piracydata.org — shows that of the top 10 most pirated movies in the past week, none are available for streaming, three were available for digital rental and six were available for digital purchase. The authors of the study, Jerry Brito and Eli Dourado from GMU's Mercatus Center and developer Matt Sherman, relied on data from TorrentFreak and Can I Stream It. The top pirated movie, "Pacific Rim," was available only for digital purchase, their study showed.

The study showed that over the past three weeks, 53% of the most pirated movies have been available legally in some digital form. In the same period, only 25% have been available for rental or streaming, and 0% have been available on a legal streaming service.

Brito said that he decided to do the study after the MPAA unveiled a study several weeks ago showing that search engines like Google lead users to infringing movies and TV shows. At a congressional hearing, Cary Sherman, chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Assn. of America, urged more voluntary agreements between search engines and the content industry to try to curb piracy.

Brito wrote in a blog post that "while there is no way to draw causality between the fact that these movies are not available legally and that they are the most pirated, it does highlight that while the MPAA is asking Google to take voluntary action to change search results, it may well be within the movie studio's power to change those results by taking voluntary action themselves. That is, they could make more movies available online and sooner, perhaps by collapsing the theatrical release window."

Yet the MPAA challenged some of the figures as well as the premise, pointing out the availability of movies like "This Is the End" on Vudu, Google Play, Sony Entertainment Network, iTunes and Amazon. The Piracydata.org figure was corrected, but it also lists "Pacific Rim" for digital purchase but not rental or streaming. Yet it is available on YouTube movies which, depending on how you look at it, is a streaming service as well as a digital rental and purchase service.

"More than half of the films they cite are in fact available to stream or download, including films they claim are not," said an MPAA spokeswoman. "And if a film is not available for stream or purchase at a given moment, it still does not justify stealing it from the creators and makers who worked hard to make it."

The MPAA offers its own tool to find legal movie options online, wheretowatch.org, but it is not a search tool for titles, but simply a listing of online providers like iTunes, Vudu and Amazon.

The movie "Elysium" is not going to be made available on iTunes until late November, according to the site, and on Blu-ray and Ultraviolet in December. But it was available for illegal streaming shortly after its August release, yet studios risk the ire of theater owners if they offer legal downloads of movies during their runs at the multiplex.

Britto acknowledged first-day glitches on his site in a lengthy blog post, and noted that data is being updated as movies become available.

"One thing is for certain: the dataset that we are proposing to build is important," he wrote. "We have provoked quite a reaction from people on both sides of this issue. We acknowledge that it has been a bumpy launch for our site, but we are committed to getting it right."

The site, glitches or not, is another instance of the back-and-forth between the content and tech policy communities in Washington over who is responsible for online infringement. A few weeks ago, the MPAA unveiled a study showing that search engines like Google play a major role in introducing audiences to pirated content via their search results. Yet Google and the trade group the Internet Assn. have for some time said that the greater availability of legal online alternatives will alleviate problems with piracy. That seems to be the premise behind the Piracydata.org site. Google provides support to the Mercatus Center.

The MPAA has promoted the availability of more movie and TV content online, but it also suggests that that alone won't solve the problems with piracy. The org noted that "The Walking Dead" was pirated 500,000 times within 16 hours despite the fact that it was available to stream for free over the next 27 days on AMC's website and distributed in 125 countries around the world after it aired.

"Our industry is working hard to bring content to audiences when they want it, where they want it, but content theft is a complex problem that requires comprehensive voluntary solutions from all stakeholders involved," the MPAA spokeswoman said.

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Connected Consumers Will Drive Media Innovation...


Connected Consumers Will Drive Media Innovation...

In a preview of its five-year forecast, PricewaterhouseCoopers says companies will have to adapt to customers' digital needs.

It's a complicated media world in which boundaries are blurring and consumers are increasingly in control.

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That was the essence of the remarks from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Phil Stokes, who offered up his company's assessment of the state of the media business worldwide in Cannes on Tuesday morning.
The comments and stats are an annual preview of the firm's forecast for the next five years across 13 media segments, set to be published in a massive tome later this month.
In a short session entitled PwC Global Entertainment Outlook, Stokes told the MIPCOM audience that "agility" and "innovation" will be crucial for companies to succeed in this ever more dynamic and shifting space.
Perhaps even more important, the executive said, will be understanding one's customers -- and in the case of content creators, knowing one's audience and scurrying to be relevant to it.
"Consumers will expect multiscreen options and they will increasingly value 'the experience' of particular content," Stokes explained.
And as several panels have articulated here, consumers are relying more and more on shared online recommendations in making their entertainment choices.
As for those who continue to fret that linear TV is on its last legs, not so, Stokes argued. Stats suggest it is holding its own quite well -- though, not surprisingly, the growth in ad revenues and such is coming mostly on the digital side.
"The Internet and video game sectors are the big drivers, but TV will continue steadily," he said, while graphs flashed behind him. Newspapers and directories will continue their steady decline.
On the digital front worldwide, the adoption of tablets will exceed that of laptops and desktops combined by 2017, the firm is projecting.
At this point, Stokes suggested, "the end of the digital beginning is upon us. The digital fog has lifted."
It will be "connected consumers" who increasingly drive companies to innovate -- or go to the wall."
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Start-Up NimbleTV to Move Users' Pay TV Channels Online...

The company is testing a streaming service that wants to make more TV content available online, but the company says it wants to ensure that pay TV and content providers continue to get paid.

Pay TV operators have acknowledged that they have been slow to make available TV content online to their subscribers in the so-called TV Everywhere initiative.
Now, start-up NimbleTV plans to speed up the process by starting to make some consumers' pay TV packages available on the Web.
Unveiling its service on Monday, it called it "a game changing new subscription-based TV platform that for the first time enables customers to access all of their television from anywhere in the world, on any device."
The company, whose investors include venture capital firms Greycroft Partners and Tribeca Venture Partners, as well as media firm Tribune Co., will begin testing its service, which streams a complete pay TV subscription package of networks, with a limited number of users this week. The service also uses a virtual DVR that can record thousands of hours of content.
Unlike Netflix, the company isn't positioning itself as a potential alternative to cable or satellite TV providers, but simply offers to move their programming to digital devices.
"NimbleTV is based on the simplest idea: customers should be able to access the TV they pay for wherever they happen to be," said NimbleTV CEO Anand Subramanian. "Today, the groundbreaking technology behind our service makes `TV everywhere' a reality - with more options, high-quality viewing on any device, watchable from anywhere."
In a nod to entertainment and pay TV companies, he also emphasized: "Our model is predicated on the belief that providers and content producers should be paid. NimbleTV is a solution that's both consumer friendly and industry friendly."
Asked about Aereo, the start-up backed by Barry Diller's IAC that repackages broadcast channels into a subscription streaming service, Subramanian told the New York Times that while his company doesn't need pay TV operators to approve its service, NimbleTV "went to extreme lengths" to comply with laws.
The NimbleTV test run will come in New York City and will be limited to a suite of 26 networks that the company will pay for, the Times said. NimbleTV's monthly fee will likely be around $20, according to the paper.
The company said in a statement that its price will include the provider subscription at cost, plus a fee for services, such as subscription set up and management, as well as the functionalities of portability and DVR services. "Customers make payments directly to their providers with NimbleTV acting as a payment service," it explained.
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Senate hearing on digital platforms hears calls for new laws...

If new digital platforms are to survive and thrive, laws and regulations governing the media and telecommunications industries need to be overhauled, executives from Microsoft, Amazon and IAC told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

"Incumbents have the means and incentive to engage in economic and/or technical discrimination against online video distributors," IAC Chairman Barry Diller testified Tuesday morning at the hearing looking at the potential of online video. IAC is a digital content company.

Diller, a former television executive who became head of Paramount Pictures and was an architect of the Fox network, said during questioning that the Communications Act of 1996 should be revisited.

"The rules need to reflect that there is a potential positive competitor to what has become a very closed system ... dominated by relatively few companies," Diller said.

There was some agreement from the committee. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said, "Our video laws simply no longer reflect the current realities of the marketplace." Those laws, "should not promote or protect one technology over another or one competitor over another."

Much of the hearing focused on whether online video will emerge as a serious competitor to cable and satellite television. Besides Diller, others testifying were Blair Westlake, corporate vice president of Microsoft Corp.'s media and entertainment group; Paul Misener, Amazon's vice president for global public policy, and Susan Whiting, vice chairman of Nielsen Co.

"The TV landscape will likely experience more change in the next 18 months than in past five years," Westlake predicted.

At the same time though, there was a general consensus that online video is not in a position to overtake current multichannel video program delivery systems. Diller said online video will be a supplement but not a replacement for pay television.

Diller and others expressed concern that traditional media companies that control content and distribution will have little incentive to see online video emerge as a serious competitor. Asked about net neutrality -- a principle that requires a broadband distributor to treat all Web traffic equally -- Diller said that without it, "You will see the absolute crushing of any competitive force."

Amazon's Misener added that his company had seen indications that traditional media companies "may wish to restrict the availability of competing content," and said the situation needs to be "monitored vigorously" by Congress and the Federal Communications Commission.

As is often the case in a hearing about content distribution, the subject of how channels are packaged and sold by cable companies was also a topic. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.), who chairs the committee, complained about having to pay for 500 channels when he only watches 10. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) asked why ESPN doesn't just sell itself directly to consumers, seemingly suggesting that this is something that programmers want but that distributors are against.

Diller made it clear that ESPN and other programmers have little interest in changing the current system.

"It would be insane for ESPN to sell itself directly to consumers," Diller said, noting that he doesn't watch ESPN yet is paying for it. "Selling it individually is something they would avoid."

There was an interesting dust-up at the start of the hearing between Diller and DeMint. Diller is a backer in Aereo, a company that sells tiny antennas to consumers and thus allows them to access broadcast TV signals over the Internet. The company launched in New York this year and broadcasters are suing to shut the service down, claiming Aereo does not have the permission or the legal right to retransmit their content via the Internet and is in violation of copyright laws.

DeMint asked Diller what his reaction to Aereo would be if he still had his broadcasting hat on. Diller acknowledged he'd be protecting his turf.

But Diller also said that Aereo, which charges consumers $12 a month, is not reselling broadcast content but is rather a technological platform.

"We charge a consumer for an infrastructure we put together," Diller said. "We don't charge for programming that is broadcast on this free direct-to-consumer system."

DeMint indicated that is a distinction without a difference, and when he was done questioning Diller turned to Amazon's Misener and sarcastically asked, "Do you plan to intercept broadcast signals and sell them over your network?"

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Monday, December 19, 2011

Apple prepping movie cloud service...

Apple Inc. is preparing to put movies in the cloud, entering a market in which it may be both competitor and ally to a similar offering backed by most Hollywood studios.

Representatives of the iPhone and iPad maker have been meeting with studios to finalize deals that would allow consumers to buy movies through iTunes and access them on any Apple device, according to knowledgeable people who requested anonymity because the discussions are private. The service is expected to launch in late 2011 or early 2012.

The talks come as the first movies from the multi-studio venture known as Ultraviolet are launching this week: Warner Bros.' "Horrible Bosses" and "Green Lantern."

People who buy DVDs or Blu-ray discs for those and other upcoming titles, including Sony Pictures' "The Smurfs" and Universal Pictures' "Cowboys and Aliens," will have access to digital cloud copies they can instantly watch on their Internet-connected TVs, smartphones and tablet computers. Ultraviolet purchases via the Web, without discs, are expected to come in 2012.

Every major studio except Disney is working on Ultraviolet with a large group of retailers and electronics companies that notably does not include Apple.

The studios are eager to boost purchases of movies, which have flat-lined in the face of competition from less expensive video on demand and Netflix and Redbox rentals. Sales of DVDs and digital downloads are still crucial to the studios' bottom line, as they are much more profitable than rentals.

However, despite the increasing popularity of digital distribution, online movie purchases are on track to bring in only $231 million this year, about the same as in 2010, according to IHS Screen Digest.

Storing digital films in the cloud, instead of making buyers manage the digital copy themselves on a computer or other device, could help spur online purchases by making it easier for people to access the movies on any device.

On Wednesday, Apple began rolling out an update to its operating system for mobile devices, called iOS5, which enables users to access music, photos, and some other media from the cloud, but not yet movies.

Though studios have spent years building Ultraviolet, people familiar with the thinking of several studio executives say they'd be happy to see Apple join as well, since it accounts for 66% of online movie sales and rentals.

"This is going to be a huge boost to a struggling online movie business," said Arash Amel, digital media research director for IHS. "Apple is going to make it work right off the bat."

Building a cloud movie business without iTunes would be difficult, Amel noted, as it accounts for 66% of online movie sales and rentals.

Under the plan Apple is proposing, users could stream movies they buy via iTunes on any device the company makes, such as the Apple TV, iPhones and iPads, as well as on PCs.

In addition, though Apple is not part of Ultraviolet, its devices could be compatible. The people who have talked to Apple representatives said the company is considering allowing people who buy and store movies with Ultraviolet to easily watch them on Apple devices via apps. That would be a big help to Ultraviolet, as Apple dominates the market for tablets and is one of the top two players in smartphones.

Movies bought on iTunes, however, would continue to work only on Apple devices and computers. That's because the company makes its biggest profits on hardware and wants to encourage people to keep buying its digital devices.

A spokesman for Apple declined to comment.

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Saturday, August 27, 2011

CRTC: Canadians Love Their Digital Devices...

Canadians are increasingly watching TV on their smartphones, tablets and online as U.S. digital giants like Netflix, YouTube and iTunes move north of the border.

TORONTO -- Now we know why Netflix, YouTube and iTunes are breaking for the Great White North: Canadians are watching TV shows on their digital devices in droves.

Commercial concerns dominate CRTC ruling

Netflix Canada cheaper than U.S. service

The CRTC, Canada's TV watchdog, in an industry survey reports 24% of English-speaking Canadians and 20% of French-speaking Canadians in 2010 watched some TV programming online, including newscasts, sports clips and popular U.S. and Canadian TV shows.

"This trend is expected to continue as these services give consumers the flexibility to catch up on the television shows they have missed, at a time and on the device that is most convenient," the regulator said.

The CRTC predicted that online viewing traffic on Canadian Internet networks will quadruple from 2009 to 2014.

Mobile video streaming is driving the growth: the regulator estimates that, between 2010 and 2014, the number of Canadian wireless subscribers will grow from 25.8 million to nearly 30 million, with half using a smartphone that can connect to the Internet and social media.
The CRTC report is not just about cheerleading about Canadians being digitally savvy.
The regulator insisted it needs to know the TV viewing habits of Canadians online, or on mobile phones and tablets, to ensure it can maintain shelf space for homegrown content.
"In this new digital world, regulators will be faced with challenges, particularly as they pertain to maintaining the currency and flexibility of existing laws," the CRTC warned in its report.

"In order to understand where regulations may become ineffective or result in unintended consequences, it is critical to examine the trends that drive convergence, alter business models, and change consumer behaviours—particularly those related to media consumption—and any other issues that concern consumers," the report added.

The CRTC has faced calls from domestic TV producers and broadcasters for the regulator to force Netflix to subsidize homegrown TV production as it continues to expand into Canada.
Netflix is considered the canary in the mine as the Canadian TV industry deals with a wall of U.S. digital content coming across the border and aimed at digital devices – and all unregulated by the CRTC.

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Monday, July 4, 2011

HAPPY 4th Of July! Online movie downloads up nearly 40% in 2010...

U.S. consumers spent $385 million buying and renting movies via the Internet in 2010 --up 38% from the year before -- surpassing for the first time the amount paid for online television shows.

According to research from IHS Screen Digest, the market for Internet television episode rentals and purchases last year was $366 million. In 2009, spending on online movies and TV was $280 million and $295 million, respectively.

The shift reflects the growing number of ways consumers can access movies through devices such as video game consoles, set-top boxes and the iPad at the same time that Hulu and other free streaming websites make it less appealing to pay to download TV shows.

The growth of the digital market came amid an overall downturn for the home entertainment market last year, with revenue down 3% to $18.8 billion and sales and rentals of traditional DVDs down 11% to $14 billion.

2010 also saw increasing competition in the digital movie market, as the grip of Apple Inc.'s iTunes slipped and other rivals, most notably Microsoft Corp., gained market share.

iTunes' market share dropped to 64.5% from 74.4%, according to IHS Screen Digest, while Microsoft, which sells and rents movies via its Xbox 360 video game console, grew to 17.9% from 11.6%.

Movie downloads on Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 game console were No. 3 at 7.2%, up from 5.7% in 2009.

Vudu, which was acquired by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. last February, relaunched in November and entered at No. 4 in the market, according to IHS Screen Digest digital media research director Arash Amel.

The other major competitor in download-to-own and video-on-demand movies is Amazon.com. The online retail giant is currently preparing to launch a subscription streaming service that would put it into competition with Netflix Inc. That model has proved more popular with consumers than paying for individual movies, as evidenced by the breakout success of Netflix.

Although there are no industrywide charts for digital downloads, Apple reported in December that the most popular movies of the year on iTunes were, in order, "The Hurt Locker," "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," "Hot Tub Time Machine," "Iron Man 2" and "Zombieland," according to CNET News.

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