Category: media

“The game industry suffered its sixth consecutive monthly sales decline in September, pouring cold water on hopes of the industry ending the year on a high note.”

Professors at Northwestern University are combining market research, psychological study and editorial creativity to figure out what attracts various consumers to particular media outlets and what keeps those consumers coming back for more.

“A great deal of important material … remains on unstable nitrate stock, and must be transferred to a more permanent base before the films turn to goo. And once the endangered material has been stabilized (the preservation step), it often must undergo an even more expensive process of restoration to recover its original luster.”

Expand regional “public media” news operations to 100 reporters and editors per market in four to six markets — and soon. That’s “public radio” grown into “public media”, meaning that these news operations would be digital-first, text-heavy and video-ready, while porting over the audio from radio.

“CBS’s premiere of its reconstituted cop show “Hawaii Five-O” — starring Alex (Third Time’s a Charm) O’Loughlin — is officially the most DVR’d show of all time.”

“A German software firm is promoting a system that it hopes will do for film audio what 3-D has done for video. With up to 128 speakers, it offers a more immersive experience but is costly for theater operators and movie makers.”

“A healthy, productive and engaged local television station would be a marvelous thing — miraculous, even, in the current broadcast climate. Imagine a real alternative to the gruesome joke that is local TV news, or local children’s programming physically available to local children.”

“The Hollywood blockbuster – a prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy and planned to be shot in New Zealand for the last decade – is expected to cost US$500 million … and has already racked up legal fees believed to exceed $100m.”

“The project is a unique Web-only music video where every frame is a fan-created drawing. Work on the project — a complex mix of software design and editing — began last September.The website launched in March. After more than 250,000 submissions, a broadcast version of the video has been released for TV stations and eligibility for 2010 Grammy nominations.”

“The Consumer Electronics Assn., the trade group behind the annual CES event, has lashed out at the radio industry’s push for FM radio tuners to be a government-mandated addition to mobile devices.”