Marie Bloomfield
MARIE BLOOMFIELD is an analyst with the Screen Digest video team. She tracks developments in both the video and video-on-demand sectors for the monthly Screen Digest journal and has been actively involved in a number of major consultancy projects. Marie is responsible for liaising with key European video contacts as part of Screen Digest's longstanding agreement with the International Video Federation to audit pan-European industry research. She has been involved in the research and analysis for a range of Screen Digest reports, including the annual summary of the European video industry, an examination of the development of high definition DVD, and an assessment of the TVDVD market.
Marie is the author of several managment reports, including Video-on-Demand: The End of the Beginning written for the 2005 European Video Perspectives (PEVE) conference and Asking The Audience: Interactivity in Home Entertainment for PEVE 2006. She is also an experienced speaker, having delivered presentations on various sectors at key industry events across Europe.
Marie graduated from the University of Surrey, Roehampton in 2004 with a BA Honours degree in English and Media Studies.
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DVD replication is suited to the on-demand model. Burn times have been reduced and the cost of components has fallen, so it is now a relatively quick and affordable procedure. The development of selfcontained replication units has made it possible for DVDs to be manufactured on-demand, and on-site, in retail stores and warehouses.
Mini Report - Apr 08
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A change of approach in the UK in the way to persuade consumers against pirated video has had a measurable effect
Mini Report - Mar 08
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New technology is arriving that could enable retailers to alleviate pressure on shelf space and allow rights holders to exploit the 'long tail'. This report examines the claims that ,anufacturing-on-demand (MOD) has the potential to generate incremental revenue in video markets where growth has plateaued.
Management Report - Mar 08
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New technology is arriving that could enable retailers to alleviate pressure on shelf space and allow rights holders to exploit the 'long tail'. This report examines the claims that manufacturing-on-demand (MOD) has the potential to generate incremental revenue in video markets where growth has plateaued.
Management Report - Mar 08
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The rate of reduction in the average time between theatrical and DVD release has slowed
Mini Report - Feb 08
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Emergence of an open-all-hours alternative channel further diversifies rental outlets
Mini Report - Oct 07
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The decision of Paramount and DreamWorks to issue future high definition video releases only on HD DVD has boosted the format's prospects
Mini Report - Sep 07
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DVD spending is stablising as the decline in prices decelerates. The East European market is catching up with the West. The market for VHS cassettes has all but disappeared completely. Growth in the DVD retail market was maintained in 2006, volume sales in Europe increasing by 10 per cent from 663.5m units in 2005 to 728.3m. Once again, however, the rise in the number of units sold did not fully translate into growth in value as the average consumer price of a retail DVD sank by eight per cent year-on-year from around €14.00 in 2005 to about €12.90 in 2006.
Mini Report - Aug 07
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DVD dominates studio movie value but the margins on video-on-demand are greater
Mini Report - Jul 07
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UK is leading the way in developing a genre of DVD programming that utilises DVD's potential for interactivity and commands premium prices Interactive DVD (iDVD) is essentially a game on a DVD. Created using the menu architecture on the DVD, content can be navigated via the user's remote control. To date, the most common use of iDVD functionality has been the quiz-based game. In common with traditional board games, most iDVDs are intended for communal use (although some titles cater for single players), distinguishing the format from most video games.
Mini Report - Feb 07
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Uniquely in Europe, DVD has failed to stimulate video market growth
Mini Report - Feb 07
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The slow transition from analogue to digital holds lessons for hi-def formats
Mini Report - Feb 07
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French consumers show high awareness of the availability of Internet video-on-demand; users tend to be the more active consumers of entertainment through traditional channels
Mini Report - Jan 07
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Online DVD rental firms are building their portfolios with digital distribution in a strategy pioneered in the UK by DVD-by-post specialist LoveFilm and now spreading to Europe, the US and Australia
Mini Report - Jan 07
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Mass merchants accounted for more than half the volume of US sales of DVDs in 2005 and the advent of high definition formats is likely to strengthen their position
Mini Report - Dec 06
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Interest in Interactive DVDs (iDVDs) has increased in recent years as a few key titles have achieved strong sales. How can the technology be applied beyond quiz-based products? What will the advent of hi-def formats mean to this genre? Screen Digests examines what makes a profitable iDVD in Europe and investigates whether the genre has the potential to ever be more than a niche, gift-orientated market.
Management Report - Dec 06
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Interest in Interactive DVDs (iDVDs) has increased in recent years as a few key titles have achieved strong sales. How can the technology be applied beyond quiz-based products? What will the advent of hi-def formats mean to this genre? Screen Digests examines what makes a profitable iDVD in Europe and investigates whether the genre has the potential to ever be more than a niche, gift-orientated market.
Management Report - Dec 06
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The fourth edition of this best selling report provides definitive statistics and commentary on the current state of the European home video market, together with detailed forecasts for over 22 countries through to 2010. This report is essential reading for anyone within the home entertainment value chain.
Management Report - Nov 06
(Print & PDF)
The fourth edition of this best selling report provides definitive statistics and commentary on the current state of the European home video market, together with detailed forecasts for over 22 countries through to 2010. This report is essential reading for anyone within the home entertainment value chain.
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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DVD volume sales continue to climb but spending fell in 2005. Retail DVD sales continued to grow in 2005 albeit at a slower rate than in previous years. Volume sales of DVD increased by 15 per cent to 657m units, accounting for 94 per cent of total European video sales. However, the gain in volume sales failed to be translated into spending as the average price of a retail DVD in Europe declined by around 13 per cent in 2005.
Mini Report - Aug 06
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Breakdown of Hollywood majors' shares of video revenues show Warner dominating the DVD sector
Mini Report - Jun 06
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Changes in major supply contracts, notably with major supermarket chains, shift the balance of power
Mini Report - May 06
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Sony's proprietary video disc format fails to make much impact in Europe.
Mini Report - Apr 06
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Consumption of current-generation DVD may provide guidance to future approaches to HD version of the disc, but each of the 'top five' European markets had markedly different characteristics.
Mini Report - Apr 06
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With the two next-generation high definition DVD
formats now certain to go head-to-head within the
next couple of months, we analyse the line-up of
expected releases
Mini Report - Mar 06
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In European countries where newsstand kiosks DVD
thrive sales are boosted but average prices are lower
Mini Report - Feb 06
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Blu-ray, ahead of HD DVD in the software stakes, also has strong hardware allegiances
Mini Report - Dec 05
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The market for DVD recorders, DVD/VCR combi machines and 'home theatre in a box' is taking some of the basic DVD player market share
Mini Report - Dec 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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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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Over 100,000 copies of Sony's proprietary Universal
Media Disc (UMD) sold during the first month on
the market in the UK. Top-selling title is a
compilation of goals from the Premier League.
Mini Report - Nov 05
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Screen Digest's most recent report looks at the rapidly growing market for TVDVD – now the fastest growing sector of the retail DVD market. The report includes historical and forecast data for the US, Western European and key individual European territories as well as analysis of pricing trends.
Management Report - Jun 05
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Screen Digest's most recent report looks at the rapidly growing market for TVDVD – now the fastest growing sector of the retail DVD market. The report includes historical and forecast data for the US, Western European and key individual European territories as well as analysis of pricing trends.
Management Report - Jun 05
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The arrival of DVD has forced distributors to compete on two fronts for a share of the European video market. Screen Digest's analysis of distributor market shares in key territories indicates that two distinct markets have emerged since 2000; a booming DVD market dominated by the studios that adopted the format early and a fading VHS market led by children's content specialists.
Mini Report - Jun 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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Video games are generally considered to hold their price better than other packaged media such as CD's and DVDs. However, recent developments indicate that prices could again decline sharply prior to the launch of the next generation of games hardware.
Mini Report - Feb 05
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Although the DVD player is generally considered to be the fastest growing consumer electronics device, analysis of Screen Digest's global hardware figures reveals that in the initial take-up period gaming hardware has actually achieved a faster rate of adoption. Games consoles such as the PlayStation 2 (PS2) and Game Boy Advance (GBA) have an immediate but short-term impact on the hardware market, whilst the impact of DVD players is slower but more enduring.
Mini Report - Jan 05
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