UHD Content Delivery, VR Filmmaking Development, TV/Digital Convergence, Broadcaster Apps and Audience Engagement

CREATION MANAGEMENT COMMERCE DISTRIBUTION/DELIVERY CONSUMPTION
TV Programming Digital Media Film Production/Post/Sound Radio Enterprise Live/Public Spaces
January 09, 2015
Connect 2 Media & Entertainment, which launched in 2013, is a resource to help you as a media professional keep up with developments not only in your own business segment but across all industry sectors. Find out what's happening in TV, radio, digital media, film, event spaces, enterprise, and much more by visiting www.c2meworld.com each day. TELEVISION Will UHD Content Take Off in 2015? "In every new technology introduction, the content people say they won't develop for it unless there's an install base, and the machine people say they won't build unless there's content," says Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research in Tiburon, Calif. "For UHD displays, the hardware people have taken the lead." Read More» PRODUCTION/POST/SOUND Hollywood Tries Its Hand at Virtual Reality Content The art of virtual reality is in creating the perception of immersion in a 3D environment that isn't really there. It's a challenge not unlike the one facing the nascent business of VR content: producing for an audience that doesn't exist, either. Read More» RADIO "You Can't Stop Technology": iHeartMedia Chairman and CEO Bob Pittman Talks Radio and Tech "You can't stop technology, nor can you control it. The only winning strategy is to embrace it—and embrace it as early as you can." Fitting words from iHeartMedia chairman and CEO Bob Pittman, reflecting on lessons learned from the music industry's early dealings with streaming tech. Read More» DIGITAL MEDIA Broadcasters Are Missing a Huge Mobile Opportunity: Engagement in Apps Ask any radio or television news organization, and they'll tell you "mobile is the future." So why aren't any broadcasters acting that way? Read More» TELEVISION UHD Alliance Formed to Support Innovation The companies have collaborated to set the bar for next-generation video entertainment by establishing new standards to support innovation in video technologies including 4K and higher resolutions, high dynamic range, wider color gamut, and immersive 3D audio. Read More» PRODUCTION/POST/SOUND Peter Jackson and Weta Digital Go All Out With "Hobbit" Finale Peter Jackson concludes his "Hobbit" trilogy and Tolkien six-pack with a bang, and "The Battle of the Five Armies" delivers the most impressive action of the director's career, recalling D.W. Griffith and Ray Harryhausen. Read More» TELEVISION What Is the Future of TV? The television industry as you know it may not exist one day, and it could happen sooner than you might think. Not only is how people watch TV and where they get content from changing, but the devices they watch on are in flux as well. Read More» TELEVISION Smaug Joins Episode of "The Colbert Report" In its final few weeks of "The Colbert Report," the Comedy Central show had on its biggest guest yet: Smaug the dragon from the "Hobbit" films. VFX house Weta Digital had just two weeks of prep time to create the illusion of the ornery beast breaking through the "Colbert Report" studio wall and having a conversation with the host. Read More» More Articles & Insights TELEVISION: TV/Digital Convergence Lags, But Key to Future » TELEVISION: Five Big, Unanswered TV Questions for 2015 » DIGITAL MEDIA: Samsung's Yoon Gives Depth, Meaning To IoT (Internet of Things) »
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