From fashion choices and travel plans to new hobbies, the movies we watch often shape more of our real lives than we realise. While films are primarily a form of escapism, their influence doesn’t always stay confined to the screen. Over the years, the entertainment industry has quietly steered everything from what we wear to […]
Mega Movie Weekend returns from March 21st to 23rd, welcoming the start of spring, The campaign runs across key retailers, including Prime Video, Sky Store, the Apple TV app, Rakuten TV, Virgin Media and EE TV Store, with prices starting at £2.99 to help audiences build their digital libraries with titles at promotional prices. With […]
LiveU’s IP-video technology has been synonymous with election coverage since the company was founded in 2006, enabling networks and journalists to deliver non-stop on-the-ground reporting and real-time results. The 2024 US Presidential Election took the coverage to new heights with the LiveU EcoSystem operating at full strength over the Election Day 48-hour period. Over 4,000 […]
Matrix Fight Night (MFN) has announced the launch of its newest association with Fighters First Mixed Martial Arts Federation. The new body will be headed by Jackie Shroff, the veteran Indian Film Industry star. With an unwavering commitment to maintaining the highest standards of athleticism, and sport entertainment, and with the vision of fostering the […]
MASV, the file transfer solution for media professionals, continues to expand its integration partnerships, offering smoother cloud production workflows for the media industry. This integration with Object Matrix, a provider of object storage solutions for the media industry, is one of the fastest ways for broadcast and streaming industry professionals to ingest media to their […]
Complementing its LiveU Matrix IP cloud video distribution service, LiveU has unveiled its new Matrix Transceiver with up to four flexible in/out SDI feeds, designed for maximum versatility for switching between live video distribution and contribution. The new rackmount unit enables broadcasters and content producers to share and receive high-quality, low latency live feeds simultaneously […]
Media delivery technology company, Streaming Global, has announced the election of three new members of the company’s Board of Directors. Lieutenant General William Burke Garrett III, USA (Retired), Diane Strutner, and John Gaeta have been elected as directors effective in Q4 2021, Q1 2022 and Q2 2022 respectively. Richard Oesterreicher, Chairman and CEO of Streaming […]
WISI, a global player in carrier-grade video technologies, and Verimatrix, a specialist in powering the modern connected world with people-centered security, have announced the immediate availability of the first-to-market Professional ABR Receiver. The Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) Receiver allows video operators to connect multiscreen video to linear networks, so that operators can launch new ABR services while […]
Media Tech SPAC, a company formed to undertake one or more acquisitions in the media and technology sectors, has announced that it has reached and entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the share capital of Drylab, a film and TV production SaaS platform in Scandinavia. The acquisition is expected to […]
Giant screen cinema operator IMAX saw its shares rise 9 per cent in after-hours trading following better than expected results that were better than its pre-pandemic numbers. IMAX said that its latest quarter-year (to the end of December) saw a 15 per cent rise in box office to $277 million (€247.2m) and represented the company’s […]