Digital Hollywood is now a brand that represents entertainment and technology industries coming together.
People return to Digital Hollywood to speak on panels, meet old friends and learn what technologies to watch and what companies to follow.
On Thursday, executives from Lycos, Excite and Infoseek will speak on a panel called "In the Eye of the Internet Networks: The Power of Conglomeration" at CES' Digital Hollywood, a kind of a show within the show.
Three hours later, in California, costumed fans and Hollywood professionals filled sold-out digital screenings of Phantom at two San Fernando Valley venues.
Hollywood is already learning to love digital television, which makes it much easier for people to pay to watch films at home.
With the parent company increasingly betting its future on the value of its content, rather than the way it's delivered, a digital strategist would seem logical anywhere but in Hollywood, where relationships with directors and actors are given primacy.
Nancy Tellem, who left her role as consultant to CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves to join Microsoft as president of entertainment and digital media, has been busy explaining to Hollywood movie and television studios the opportunities that Xbox 360 and Kinect open up for consumers.
With a BA in history from UC Berkeley, and several years of developing digital marketing strategy in the heart of the Hollywood, Zim may not seem to fit the classic MBA profile, dominated as it is by students from the fields of finance, engineering and consultancy.
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Which is only one of the reasons why Blu-ray is generating more revenue for Hollywood, instead of being killed by digital distribution.
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George Lucas is pushing Hollywood his way again, by releasing a digital version of his latest Star Wars.
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The center incorporates advanced video processing calibrated to the DCI (Digital Cinema Initiative) color standards recently adopted by most Hollywood studios and distributors, as well as removeable-hard-disk data storage to accommodate multiple DCI-standard motion picture titles ready for immediate playback.
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The advent of digital distribution does not, in itself, threaten his power in Hollywood.
Kodak is using the games to showcase its digital technology to 500 dignitaries, ranging from domestic China retailers to Hollywood studio executives.
The six other major Hollywood studios face the vexing choice of making massive investments in their own digital facilities or relying on Lucas and his competitors.
If Amazon is getting deeper into the content distribution business (the site already sells digital downloads of movies and TV shows), that could be good news for Hollywood, according to BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield.
As entertainment goes digital, the movie biz finds itself smack in the middle of the Silicon Valley versus Hollywood wars and the whole convergence confusion.
Although mainstream Hollywood films have been shot digitally for about the last 12 years, the first digital film to win an Oscar for best cinematography was Slumdog Millionaire in 2009.
And although the hype over digital has all but drowned out the news of its invention, MaxiVision has caught on with a significant set of Hollywood insiders.
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