Spring 2009 Newsletter |
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Entertainment and Electronics news
12M Blu-ray Players
to Ship This Year The UK-based research company says that things are already on track to reach its projection of 1.2 million Blu-ray units sold in the first quarter of 2009. "In last year's crucial Q4 period," reminds Jack Wetherill, Research Consultant at Futuresource, "three million Blu-ray players were shipped globally, which represented more than 50 per cent of the total for the year." Futuresource predicts that, despite the economy, this year's fourth-quarter will see more than six million Blu-ray players ship. More D-Box Movie Theatre Seats a Hit On April 3, Canadian company D-Box debuted its motion-coded theatre seating for the first time in a commercial movie theatre in Arizona. Typically, the pricy products have been sold in upper-end home theatre installations; but the company is attempting to tap into the mass market through movie venues. Customers who opted for the upgrade to the D-Box seating for Fast and the Furious, the first theatrical release to feature the company's motion coding, were interviewed after the movie, and the results were overwhelming positive. Of the 361 participants at both the Mann Chinese 6 theatre in Hollywood, CA and the UltraStar multiplex in Surprise, AZ, D-Box reports that 99% rated the experience "excellent" or "good". Women viewers were just as impressed as men, and virtually all of the interviewees said they would recommend the experience to others. Ninety-four per cent said they would watch another D-Box enhanced movie. Movie-goers pay a small premium on their ticket to sit in the limited number of D-Box chairs in the theatre, which vibrate, shake, and move in tune with the on-screen action. More... Chesky Records has just introduced 192 kHz/24-bit WAV 1-to-1 Masters series. These are not limited editions but one-to-one copies of the company's master 192 kHz/24-bit tapes. These are standard 24-bit/192 kHz WAV files that you can burn onto your computer's hard drive and then play back on any device that will support 24-bit/192 kHz music files. These discs will not play on DVD-Audio or SACD players unless you use software that produces such discs from audio files. These new music discs from Chesky Records contain up to 4.7 GB of music each on a Gold DVD-R. "This is a major breakthrough for us in sound quality" says David Chesky of Chesky Records. "The one-to-one masters off a good computer system sound more like analog than any other digital source we have used. You will hear more air, tonal purity, resolution, and a much richer, deeper, and wider soundstage." XM Canada Still Going Strong Despite the fact that the two competing satellite radio companies in the U.S. have merged, to create the combined Sirius XM service, their namesakes in Canada are both continuing strong and independent of one another. XM Canada has reported a 40 per cent growth in paying subscribers, and 39 per cent growth in total revenue for Q2 2009 versus the same quarter last year. XM Canada, which is owned by Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., reports that the number of self-paying subscribers to its service increased from 251,400 in 2008 to 351,200 in the second quarter of 2009, which ended February 28, 2009. Operating profit grew to $0.3 million from a loss of $1.6 million in the previous year; and net loss (before foreign exchange gain/loss) jumped 10 per cent to $2 million. Revenue increased $3.6 million to $12.8 million. More... iTunes Converts To All DRM-Free Tracks Cupertino, Calif. — Apple today followed through on previously announced plans to offer all songs in its iTunes store without digital rights management (DRM) restrictions, joining sites such as Amazon and Rhapsody. Apple also began offering tiered pricing instead of offering all songs at the same price. The DRM-free songs on Apple’s iTunes store will be playable on any consumer electronics device, music-playing cellphone and networked music system that supports the AAC format. Apple began offering DRM-free AAC tracks from EMI and independent labels in 2007, and in January began offering 8 million of its 10 million songs DRM-free. The remaining 2 million were just shorn of their protection. More... AMG to become first 3D network The seeds of the nation's first 3D broadcast network have been planted, repping a small step for television, but a giant leap for 3D. Signet Intl. Holdings, a publicly traded company led by former NBC and PBS exec Tom Donaldson and boxing promoter Ernie Letiziano, is buying AMG TV, a modestly sized net that feeds syndicated programs to some 200 terrestrial station affiliates, some of them carrying programming only part of the day. Simultaneously, Signet has pacted with Kerner Broadcast Corp. for exclusive use of Kerner's 3D TV technology. Kerner, a spinoff from Lucasfilm's Industrial Light and Magic, is also taking an equity position in Signet.
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