September 12, 2006, was a banner day for competition in the interactive entertainment space. NBC, Apple and AT T announced various products, services and plans to claim their rightful shares of the interactive consumer entertainment market.In-brief, below, the high-powered power plays for ownership of the on-demand, interactive entertainment content consumer.IN THEIR...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--The numbers are in, and it appears that high-definition television is getting Americans to spend more time glued to their TV than ever before. Yay, says Bryan Burns, vice president of strategic planning and development at ESPN HD. HD popularity means better TV sales and more advertising, of course.
Big demand for digital tracks and albums keep overall music business in line amid plummeting sales for physical albums. Walt Disney's ESPN cable sports channel said on Thursday it will shut down its Mobile ESPN wireless telephone business operations later this year and aims to license the brand to existing mobile providers. Owners of Mobile ESPN phones will receive a full refund when they settle their final Mobile...
Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger on Tuesday said the company sold 125,000 movie downloads worth $1 million in revenue through Apple Computer's iTunes online music store in the first week Disney movies were offered. Iger told a conference of analysts the company expects to take in $50 million in...
YouTube, the popular online video-sharing service, is teaming up with major marketing and media partners for a competition to discover the most talented unsigned bands on its site. The promotion announced on Wednesday, called YouTube Underground, is the latest step by the start-up company to build a mainstream media model around...
Disney is jumping on the portable-video bandwagon, expanding its line of media players and offering movies on memory cards. On Tuesday it announced an upgraded version of the Disney Mix Stick music player, which features more memory; a mini version called the Disney Mix Micro; and a multimedia version, the Disney...
Disney said Monday that it will release DVD "screeners"--copies of movies sent to groups that vote on awards--only for DVD players made exclusively by a... In a first for the U.S. market, the struggling Mobile ESPN network is offering live and complete football games for viewing on cell phones. The service, announced Wednesday, will offer subscribers up to 25 games per month from ESPN and ESPN2, starting with Florida State vs. Miami on Sept. 4 and.
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After only a few months in the market, wireless companies repackaging cell phone services under their own brands, such as Disney, ESPN and Helio, are struggling to meet expectations. Disney Mobile, which launched its service in April in the U.S. , cancelled its plans to launch a U.
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After completing what it calls a successful test, ABC is poised to relaunch its streaming video service in the fall with a tweaked broadband player and more shows available online for a shorter period of time per episode. The service will feature several more shows than the initial four, although...
That's the message from Joe Rohde, executive designer and vice president with Walt Disney Imagineering.
Rohde delivered a keynote address Tuesday at Siggraph 2006, the leading conference for the computer graphics industry, and...
Dolby Laboratories, best known for its movie theater surround-sound systems, on Monday said it has teamed up with German virtual-reality company Infitec to develop a three-dimensional projection system for theaters. Dolby will integrate Infitec's 3D technology, designed by DaimlerChrysler for automotive design, with the digital-cinema playback system it developed for movie...
Raising the bar in the Blu-ray Disc vs. HD DVD battle, Walt Disney is creating a series of short films to be shot in high-definition to accompany select films the company will release in the Blu-ray format. It's the first move by any studio to develop original content for the Sony-developed...
The case encompasses two of Hollywood's biggest headaches these days: the culture wars and the disruptive influence of...
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" opens Friday, but the Walt Disney also has high hopes for the property in the strikingly different media of massively multiplayer online games. "Pirates of the Caribbean Online" will become a reality next year when Disney Online reveals an original story set...
Walt Disney on Wednesday said it has chosen former Procter Gamble Chairman and Chief Executive John Pepper to serve as its nonexecutive chairman, beginning in January. Pepper will succeed former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, who..
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Consumers are hijacking top global brands using blogs and online communities, but advertising companies are trying to find ways to embrace the revolution rather than fight against it. The Internet has turned the traditional world of advertising on its head with a growing shift of spending to online from print and...
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