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Amazon Buys MGM for $8.45 Billion

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon has agreed to acquire MGM in a deal worth $8.45 billion and the company is expected to complement Amazon Studios, which has focused on TV content. The move will give …

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MPA Has Useful Data on Entertainment

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We missed it at the time, but the Motion Picture Association published a 63 page report on trends in entertainment in 2020. It’s no surprise that the report finds that the …

Tags:Cinema| Pay TV| Streaming Video

Broadcast TV: If It’s For Free, It’s For Me!

by Pete Putman

It’s been quite a few decades since I got my master’s degree in television and film at Syracuse University. I made many connections while there, but only one has survived four-plus decades, and that …

Tags:Cable| Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| FTA (Free to Air)| OTT Video| Streaming Video

Getting the Best from Streaming Services

by Andy Marken

We played chess a little bit while in college. It was a way to feel like you were doing something constructive while skipping classes and if you were winning, you weren’t wasting time. And …

Tags:Amazon| Netflix| OTT Video| Samsung| Smart TV| Streaming Video

Content, Delivery and Display

by Bob Raikes

At Display Daily, we focus hard on the final part of a display system – the interface between the system and the viewer. However, one of our mantras over the years is that to …

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Bravia Core Content Now Available for Bravia XR TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As expected, following the Bravia announcements at CES, Sony has now announced that its Bravia Core content service has now been included with its 2021 Bravia XR TVs.(Sony Reveals 2021 TV …

Tags:sony| Streaming Video| TVs (TV Sets)

The Pandemic Accelerated the Focus of Serving the Viewer

by Andy Marken

Tenet painfully clawed itself to maybe $80M in ticket sales in the US and perhaps $400M globally while most major projects were slid into next year or worse, slipped into various D2C options. Studios …

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Links for w/c 26th April 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Cerebras’ New Monster AI Chip Adds 1.4 …

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