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April 29, 2005
Red Herring's 10 Digital tech Startups
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April 28, 2005
Digital Music
Business Week Special on Digital Music
Business Week has put its entire suite of cover stories about digital music online. Taken as a whole, the body of
articles provides good background on new revenue models, with a strong focus on mobile, wireless music. Following are
the important components:
Ringtones — the risks and rewards of the
rocketing ringtone business.
Samsung and it audacious MP3-player
ambitions.
Cell phones as iPod’s looming
competition—a slideshow.
Background article on phones as
iPod-slayers, with lots of information about current and mobile music services.
Graphic illustrating current mobile music
services.
Chart illustrating how cell phones will
eclipse MP3 players over the next three years.
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April 22, 2005
SUN Entertainment Services
Sun Announces Vertical Group to Target Hollywood Demands
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced a new vertical group that will
create technology solutions to meet Hollywood's demand for reliable,
fast, and open technology. Sun is already delivering the Digital Asset
Management Reference Architecture, video management, and storage
products to companies like Home Box Office (HBO), WGBH and Major League
Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM).
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Digital Radio
NPR's "Tomorrow Radio" To Bring Multicasting to Digital Radio
Leading
the U.S. radio industry in technical innovation and programming, NPR
has ensured that multicasting will be a part of public radio's digital
future. Multicasting is a feature of HD Radio™ technology that creates
multiple broadcast channels from what is presently one analog radio
signal.
This summer, NPR will begin
offering five programmed music formats to multicasting stations:
classical, jazz, electronica, triple-A and folk. Other program
offerings NPR is developing for stations with new channels include a
news and information service and formats that would serve culturally
diverse audiences. [more on NPR’s tomorrow radio]
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Transparent DRM
An international forum aimed at standardizing digital media and copy protection technologies is set to achieve a major milestone in its drive toward creating interoperable Digital Rights Management. This month, the International Digital Media Project (DMP)—which brings together more than 25 member companies across the digital content and device industries including Panasonic, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Telecom Italia, and the BBC—is expected to release the industry's first DRM technology specifications for Portable Audio and Video devices (PAVs).
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Water into Wine?
Forbes
David Kusek, 01.31.05
People should pay for their music the way they pay for gas or electricity.
More people are consuming music today than ever before, yet very few of them are paying for it. The music recording industry blames file sharing for a downturn in CD sales and, with the publishing companies, has tried its best to litigate this behavior out of existence, rather than try to monetize the conduct of music fans. These efforts are fingers in a dike that is about to burst. Digital media are interactive, and people want music that they can burn to CDs, share and use as they wish. The music industry should instead look at turning this consumer phenomenon into a steady stream of cash--lots of it.
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April 15, 2005
Forester Sights Podcasting Futures
Forrester Calls Podcasting "The Future of Digital Audio"
Forrester Research has released a new report, The Future Of Digital Audio, that focuses on podcasting and satellite radio. According to the report, 20.1 million U.S. households will listen to satellite radio and 12.3 million U.S. households will use their MP3 players to listen to audio podcasts by the end of the decade.
"Consumers want to listen to what they want, when they want, on the device of their choosing. New formats like online radio and podcasting, where downloadable content is sent directly to an MP3 player, give consumers more programming and ultimate flexibility," says Forrester Research Vice President Ted Schadler. "If radio and music executives can successfully shift their thinking to embrace new audio delivery methods, both industries will benefit from new revenue streams and increased consumer loyalty over the next several years."
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April 14, 2005
Sony BMG goes to school
Sony BMG Funds College Music Systems
It’s no news that colleges are experimenting with music subscription services on behalf of their students. But it is news that at least one major label, Sony BMG, is underwriting the expense to schools. The label figures it is cultivating a new youth market that has grown up with the Internet and cheap, or free, content.
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April 11, 2005
XM & AOL = Web Radio
AOL, XM Satellite to Start Web Radio Service
NEW YORK (Reuters) - America Online on Monday announced plans to launch a Web-based radio service with XM Satellite Radio XMSR.O in a move that may help XM win customers from AOL's 24 million subscribers, driving XM shares higher.
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April 08, 2005
IP Law
A History of the Patent Law of the United States
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P2P for Indie Distribution
ABC News: File-Sharing Case Worries Indie Artists
LOS ANGELES Mar 24, 2005 — Recording
industry executive Andy Gershon sees opportunity in the online
file-sharing networks that most of his rivals decry as havens for music
pirates. As president of V2 Records, home to such established acts as
The White Stripes and Moby, Gershon mines such Internet distribution
channels for new fans and revenues.
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Music Business Journal - UK
The Internet Publication for the Global Music Business
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Legislating Download Compatibilty
A Law Mandating Music File Compatibility?
WASHINGTON -- Congress is toying with the idea of mandating one standard for all online music platforms. [Internet News]
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MTV To Go
Television Article | Reuters.com
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - MTV on Wednesday unveiled plans for MTV
Overdrive, a Web channel through www.mtv.com offering more advanced
viewing and video-on-demand capabilities for an audience accustomed to
instantaneous content.
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Satellite Starts Influencing
Satellite Radio Takes Off, Altering the Airwaves
Satellite radio, one of the fastest-growing technologies ever, is pushing commercial radio to change its sound.
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Sharing background
File-Sharing Is the Latest Battleground in the Clash of Technology and Copyright
The Supreme Court case between MGM Studios and Grokster is just the
latest installment of a longstanding battle between technology
companies and copyright holders.
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April 01, 2005
"Music Industry" News
Google Search
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"Broadcast Industry" News
Google Search
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"Radio Industry" News
Google Search
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Movie Downloads
some facts on downloading movies
From PaidContent.org: (a great resource, btw), here are some interesting facts
-- StarzTicket, the Starz-RNWK
joint venture: "On average, our subscribers are downloading about 10
movies per month," said Bob Greene, senior VP. "That's [about $1.30]
per movie [for $13 per month]."
-- Movielink: about 1,000 movie
titles available for download, and about 100,000 downloads
per month...
-- CinemaNow: a collection of
about 7,000 licensed movies, which it expects to increase to about
10,000 by the end of the year. About 3,000 are available for download"
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