"Deluxe Digital Studios recently installed Dolby TrueHD with advanced 96k upsampling after we conducted a blind test, and everyone agreed the upsampled stream was better than the original, " said Roger Fiets, Technical Manager, DVD and Blu-ray Audio, Deluxe Digital Studios.
Movie studios want consumers to buy more digital-movie downloads as DVD sales shrink and digital rental and subscription services, from which studios earn less, gain traction.
Ultraviolet's morass of logins and passwords hasn't gotten any less complicated for digital copies from different studios yet, but in this case linking your account should be relatively simple.
Smith and Wellesley College economist Brett Danaher published last month indicating last year's shutdown of illegitimate-download site Megaupload by the U.S. Justice Department boosted the studios' digital revenue by 6% to 10%.
Digital distribution will save the studios millions on the film prints that now tour the country's megaplexes in canisters.
"Suddenly we have a godlike capability, " says Richard Edlund , president of Boss Film Studios , a digital effects company.
The Sandy effort also entailed other key contributions: three image-capturing stations, provided by Ken Allen Studios, a digital-imaging business, and JPMorgan Chase.
One of the biggest barriers to success for the studios in the digital age has been the lack of a digital ecosystem that provides a consumer value proposition worthy enough for consumers to fork over their hard earned cash to own a digital movie.
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The 23-year-old DJ released "Harlem Shake" last May, but it wasn't until Feb. 2 that the first video emerged featuring a silly dance to the song. (A YouTube denizen known as Filthy Frank gets that credit.) A version by a crew of Australian skateboarders established the jump-cut blueprint, and an entry by employees of Maker Studios, a digital media company, inspired other office imitators.
Mr Bruce said the new studios would give the digital arts in Dundee a massive boost.
The switch to digital may thus produce savings for studios and distributors, but it will cost cinema chains money.
"We see our studios moving into the digital world, " explained Jacobsen.
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In a blog post Friday afternoon, the company announced the acquisition of Widevine , a Seattle-based provider of video delivery security and digital rights management tools used by studios, cable systems and channels to show content both online and on TVs.
Working with a group of young digital filmmakers in company-owned production studios, Gregory finds it easier to kick around ideas that would never fly at a bigger company.
With iTunes commanding the majority of the digital-movie download market, the studios have made a bid to control their own fates by developing a competing cloud service called UltraViolet.
The record companies and film studios have grudgingly accepted that banning digital recording is not an option.
We doubt we'll see any reduction in ticket prices, but the process of bringing new movies to theaters could get easier very soon as five major studios have signed on with the Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC) to use its satellite distribution network.
Varying by region and distributor, customers will have access to movies from the following studios and independents: 20th Century Fox, Entertainment One (eOne), Lionsgate, MGM, National Film Board of Canada, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (US), Starz Digital Media, STUDIOCANAL, The Walt Disney Studios, Universal Pictures (UK), Warner Bros.
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Digital rentals far exceeds that of downloads and the studios prefer downloads over rental because, the margins are better.
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The court ruling marks a victory for the film studios and could have an impact on digital copyright laws of the future.
He wants the studios to pay for the installation of digital equipment, since he says they'll save hundreds of millions annually by distributing movies digitally.
Much of it is the consequence of what I've come to think of as digital delirium, a state of being that prompts studios with deep pockets and shallow perspectives to believe that because something can be done digitally it should be done.
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He has been replaced by his cousin Peter Levinsohn, who oversaw the digital media business for Fox's tv and movie studios.
In particular, he thinks many people miss the fact that studios can license the same content in a digital format over and over again.
In 1999, when the studios began to discuss the need for a digital standard for film, all parties agreed they did not want any toll-takers such as Dolby.
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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Long after the record industry was shaken by Napster, the studios have only just begun to test the rental of digital movies downloaded from the Internet, via a new site, Movielink.
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.
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.
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