Arash Amel
ARASH AMEL joined Screen Digest in 2001. He specialises in digital entertainment content and technologies, and pioneered Screen Digest's Broadband Media Intelligence service. Current clients to the service include major technology companies, broadcasters, pay-TV operators, entertainment retailers, telcos, ISPs, Hollywood Studios and the music Majors.
As Head of Broadband Media at Screen Digest, Arash has overseen the development of the company's market forecasting models in the digital distribution of movies, music, TV and user-generated content. He has previously advised the European Commission on the opportunities and obstacles posed to the entertainment sector by the internet, and has also carried out a wide array of private consulting assignments on entertainment content distribution for leading global media companies. He is a regular speaker at international conferences, as well as authoring and editing over 30 market reports and research pieces on his core areas of expertise.
Arash holds an honours degree in Law from Kings College, London, where he was a Visiting Lecturer in Law, and is a non-practicing barrister.
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This comprehensive report includes a full analysis of the consumer market for online sports video (OSV) in the USA, UK, France and Germany. It also includes all of Screen Digest's proprietary market data and forecasts for the take up of different types of online sports video offerings, the growth of consumer broadband and the online video boom, an introduction to sports media right and an overview of technology as well as the infrastructure in the OSV market.
This comprehensive report includes a full analysis of the consumer market for online sports video (OSV) in the USA, UK, France and Germany. It also includes all of Screen Digest's proprietary market data and forecasts for the take up of different types of online sports video offerings, the growth of consumer broadband and the online video boom, an introduction to sports media right and an overview of technology and the infrastructure in the OSV market.
Management Report - Feb 08
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Apple partners European mobile network operators for launch, scheduled for November
Mini Report - Oct 07
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This report examines the current and future state of the online movie markets in Western Europe and the USA. It includes five year forecasts of consumer spending and Studio level revenues generated from online a la carte movie transactions. The report provides detailed analysis of the strategies adopted by each of the Hollywood Studios in the digital marketplace.
Management Report - Aug 07
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This report examines the current and future state of the online movie markets in Western Europe and the USA. It includes five year forecasts of consumer spending and Studio level revenues generated from online a la carte movie transactions. The report provides detailed analysis of the strategies adopted by each of the Hollywood Studios in the digital marketplace.
This report provides detailed profiles of 16 of the industry's major players and assesses the UGOV value chain. The report also looks at potential UGOV business models and provides forecasts for the number of streams and the value of advertising revenues generated by UGOV sites in the US.
This report provides detailed profiles of 16 of the industry's major players and assesses the UGOV value chain. The report also looks at potential UGOV business models and provides forecasts for the number of streams and the value of advertising revenues generated by UGOV sites in the US.
Management Report - Jan 07
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This report considers the market for the digital distribution of filmed entertainment and the obstacles which must be overcome before movie download services become a mass market proposition. Screen Digest predicts that European movie downloading will accelerate from Euro 10m in 2005 to Euro 690m by the end of 2010.
Management Report - Sep 06
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This report considers the market for the digital distribution of filmed entertainment and the obstacles which must be overcome before movie download services become a mass market proposition. Screen Digest predicts that European movie downloading will accelerate from Euro 10m in 2005 to Euro 690m by the end of 2010.
Management Report - Sep 06
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This detailed analysis of the European online music market includes historical and forecast data for the online music markets in 16 Western European markets. The report analyses singles, albums and subscription service volumes and revenues and includes detailed profiles of pan European service operators.
This detailed analysis of the European online music market includes historical and forecast data for the online music markets in 16 Western European markets. The report analyses singles, albums and subscription service volumes and revenues and includes detailed profiles of pan European service operators.
Management Report - Aug 06
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This cooperation between Screen Digest and Rightscom examines the lessons learnt from the music industry's digital experience and also analyses the way in which DRM systems might allow movie release windows to be radically changed in future.
Management Report - Apr 06
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This report offers an examination of the European Video-on-Demand (VoD)
market as it enters the final stages of a long gestation period
Management Report - Nov 05
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This report offers an examination of the European Video-on-Demand (VoD)
market as it enters the final stages of a long gestation period
Management Report - Nov 05
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As incumbent telcos' exchanges and networks are
opened up to competition, allowing development of
Internet Protocol and other services, prices for both
wholesale and fully unbundled activities are beginning
to fall.
Mini Report - Nov 05
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This report provides a detailed analysis of the UK broadband market, including five year growth forecasts and a breakdown of growth by platform and analysis of revenues.
Management Report - Jul 05
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This report provides a detailed analysis of the UK broadband market, including five year growth forecasts and a breakdown of growth by platform and analysis of revenues.
Management Report - Jul 05
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Microsoft devices dominate the entertainment hardware market
Mini Report - Jul 05
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Launched January 2004, CinemaNow's download-to-own service is the first of its kind. Available worldwide, the retail video-on-demand (VoD) service realises the ambition of the Hollywood majors, offering them an insight into the business of digital delivery.
Mini Report - Jun 05
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By the year end it is forecast that there will be be 12.6m US households equipped for HDTV reception. By 2008 we predict that 94 per cent of all digital TV displays in the US will be high definition. Only two out of more than 500 'high definition TV' models can show the true 1080p format. Hollywood studios are eyeing high definition DVD as the next technological step ahead of HDTV.
Mini Report - Dec 04
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The eight Central European countries new to the EU have a different pattern of broadband uptake from the Western European member states. Estonia leads the group in terms of ADSL stategy and take-up. Consumer buy-in prices are consistently high compared with the per capita GDP
Mini Report - Aug 04
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Mini Report - Feb 04
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This new report profiles the growth of iTV betting, gaming and lottery services, analysing the availability and prospects for these services in key European markets. It includes a unique forecast model, offering territorial revenue forecasts until 2007 and an exclusive analysis of gross margins by application type.
This new report profiles the growth of iTV betting, gaming and lottery services, analysing the availability and prospects for these services in key European markets. It includes a unique forecast model, offering territorial revenue forecasts until 2007 and an exclusive analysis of gross margins by application type.
Management Report - Jan 04
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This unique study assesses the state of the market for alternative content in electronic and digital cinema. This includes any form of large-screen content other than feature films and also includes alternative cinema use, such as for corporate events. The report also explains how alternative content could revolutionise the economics of the cinema industry.
Management Report - Oct 03
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The storage of audio-visual content on a disc is not a new idea. Since John Logie Baird demonstrated his Phonovision back in 1927, which used conventional gramophone records to play back mechanically derived moving pictures and sound, a video disc system
Management Report - Nov 02
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The storage of audio-visual content on a disc is not a new idea. Since John Logie Baird demonstrated his Phonovision back in 1927, which used conventional gramophone records to play back mechanically derived moving pictures and sound, a video disc system
Management Report - Nov 02
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Management Report - Aug 02
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The personal video recorder (PVR) is arguably the first new home recording product category since the VCR. A revolutionary concept, it promised to unshackle the viewer from broadcasting schedules through intelligent hard-disk recording and the ability to 'pause' live TV. Yet, despite the hype, it has so far failed to capture the public imagination
Management Report - Aug 02
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Management Report - Aug 02
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