Who Wants To Be An MVPD?
The FCC extend program access rights to OTT services, but does anyone want them? Read More …
Tag: Sony
Music Streaming’s Hidden Fees
Apart from precise dollar figures, there’s little in Sony’s leaked contract with Spotify, to surprise anyone familiar with how the major media companies do business with service providers. Read More …
Blu-ray: Licensed to be killed
Back in 2008, explaining the lack of Blu-ray Disc drives on Apple’s newest line of notebooks, CEO Steve Jobs famously described the licensing process around the format as “a bag of hurt.” After this week’s announcement by the newly formed BD4C Licensing Group, he’s going to need some more bags. The members of the new group, Toshiba, Read More …
Alarm bells come too late for Sony Pictures
The memo Sony Pictures co-chiefs Michael Lynton and Amy Pascal sent to employees Monday announcing massive layoffs, most of which will fall in the home entertainment and IT divisions, obviously wasn’t meant to be made public. But it’s fitting that it was leaked when it was, the same day that Bernstein Research analysts Michael Nathanson Read More …
iDisney
One of the more interesting subtexts to the battle between Disney and Sony Pictures over the work of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem consortium (DECE) is the degree to which the studios have come to resemble each other. Sony Pictures has long been a captive of Sony Electronics. Decisions on what technologies or which formats Read More …