Asia-Pacific Piracy Still Rampant: Shift in operations toughens anti-piracy efforts
Organised criminal gangs with global networks are a key driver of piracy in the Asia-Pacific. Investigations into piracy during the first half of 2004 are up 42 per cent compared with a year earlier. Australia and Korea accounted for 80 per cent of DVD-R seizures in the first half of 2004. Asia-Pacific piracy is estimated to cost US motion picture industry $718m annually in potential revenues

by: David Scott
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industry: Video & DVD, Film & Cinema
topics: Piracy, DVD

Italy Catching Up On Digital TV: But pay TV still has a limited market
Italy has no analogue pay TV services since the closure of Telepiù. There is little competition in the Italian digital television market. Sky Italia—now wholly owned by News Corporation—controls 93 per cent of Italy's pay TV market. Regulators' requirement for Sky Italia to make channels available has benefited Fastweb

by: Guy Bisson
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industry: Television
country / region: Italy,
topics: IPTV, Pay television

English Rules In World Box Office: Chinese has lowest BO presence compared to linguistic weight


by: David Hancock
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industry: Film & Cinema
topics: Film production / content, Cinema exhibition

Film Entertainment Spending Split: Pay TV accounts for the largest slice of film-based spending
US accounted for 56.3 per cent of total film based entertainment spending in 2003. Pay TV account for a higher share of spending per head in Poland than any other sector anywhere else. Cinemagoing in the UK contributes less to total film entertainment spending per head than anywhere else. Singapore has the highest contribution of cinemagoing to total film entertainment

by: Charlotte Jones
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industry: Film & Cinema, Video & DVD, Television
topics: Pay television, Cinema exhibition

Maximum Print Runs Increasing: Germany emerging as lead European market for film prints
Germany has the highest average number of prints per release, followed by the UK. France is the only other European country that has releases of 500+ prints but Spain is catching up. Despite the size of the market, US release depths average only nine per cent of screens. Print depths for top-70 US releases and those of the majors are similar—the two are roughly synonymous

by: David Hancock
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industry: Film & Cinema
country / region: Germany,
topics: Film production / content, Cinema distribution

European Pay TV Gains Momentum - Digitisation especially of cable will stimulate further growth


by: Francois Godard, Tim Westcott
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industry: Television Europe
topics: Pay television, TV market forecasts

World DVD Markets In Position: Retail DVD takes control as rental DVD overtakes rental VHS


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industry: Video & DVD
topics: DVD, Video software

French rental declines:
French consumers prefer to buy videos rather than rent them, a trend exacerbated by the shift to DVD / The proportion of the overall video market generated by rental has more than halved since 1998 / The rental market is dominated by a group comprising three local companies, Vidéo Futur, Vidéo Pilote and Cinebank, which merged in April 2003

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industry: Video & DVD
country / region: France,
topics: DVD, Video software

Importance Of Free DTH In Europe: A central factor in analogue television switch-off


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industry: Television Europe
topics: Free-to-air television

Slow Hollywood Digital Releases: Slow Hollywood Digital Releases: Disney and WB still the only Major Digital Cinema Players


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industry: Film & Cinema
country / region: USA,
topics: Digital cinema / e-cinema, Cinema exhibition

Hollywood Rules Toon Box Office: Increased European Animation Output Faces Uphill Struggle
Hollywood is the 800-pound gorilla in the global market for animated feature films. Since the 1980s the production of animated films has seen a strong revival, with DreamWorks SKG leading the challenge by a number of studios to the historical pre-eminence of Walt Disney Pictures.

by: Tim Westcott
Pages: 2 - Charts and Tables: 5
industry: Film & Cinema
topics: Film production / content, Cinema exhibition

Growth Potential for Screen Ads: Advertising is still a low Proportion of Box Office Revenue


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industry: Film & Cinema
topics: Cinema advertising, Cinema exhibition

Australia still Embraces Rental: Video Rental Leads the Market despite strong Retail Growth
Australia has one of the strongest rental video markets in the world. Australians still spend as much on renting as they do on buying videos. Australians rent more DVDs a year than consumers in Japan, UK or US. DVD accounts for over 80 per cent of Australia's spending on video

by: David Scott
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industry: Video & DVD
country / region: Australia,
topics: Video software

Greek Television Profile: Infrastructure on the Ground is Under-Developed


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industry: Television
country / region: Greece,
topics: Pay television

West Europe has Half Non-US B.O: But the US Accounts for almost half the World Box Office Total


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industry: Film & Cinema
topics: Cinema exhibition

Television Advertising Perks Up: Less gloomy outlook for Europe's commercial TV heavyweights


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industry: Television
topics: TV advertising, Free-to-air television

Interactive Leisure Software 04
Overall, 2003 was an exceptional year for games. Annual sales of software in 2003 reached a new record in the European territories with the UK taking 28 per cent of unit sales. Console hardware excluding handheld recorded its best ever year.

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industry: Games

Global Cinema Exhibition 2004: Record revenues but dollar values mask local currency falls


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industry: Film & Cinema
topics: Cinema exhibition

Los Angeles Shooting Shifts to TV: LA feature film activity dropped by half since 1997


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industry: Film & Cinema
country / region: USA,
topics: Film production / content, TV content

Korean Film Exports Upward Trend: Although negative trade balance remains above $30m


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industry: Film & Cinema
country / region: Korea. Rep [S],
topics: Film production / content

Broadband in EU Accession States: In four years Central Europe will be where West Europe is now
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

by: Arash Amel
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industry: Broadband, Broadband, Broadband
topics: Broadband access, Broadband forecasts

Piracy Soars Since Launch of DVD: In most countries piracy is now worse than 10 years ago


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industry: Video & DVD
topics: Piracy, DVD

Local Film Industries' Record Level: Majority of markets experienced overall increase in 2003


Pages: 1 - Charts and Tables: 1
industry: Film & Cinema
topics: Film production / content, Cinema exhibition

Cost of Buying into European DTT


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industry: Television Europe
topics: Digital terrestrial television (DTT)

US DVD Take-Up is Double Europe's: But Western Europe is fastest growing DVD region


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industry: Video & DVD
topics: DVD

Online Gaming Demographics: Surprise: married women predominate among casual gamers
The total online PC games market is huge. Screen Digest estimates that will top $1bn in the West in 2004 and expects it to exceed $2bn by 2007. Growth is currently being driven by pay-per-play browser gaming, massively multi-player online games (MMOGs) and aided by the resumption of growth within the online games advertising market as well as the successful introduction of new models such as casual games service subscriptions. Over the longer term, broadband games-on-demand services are expected to make a growing contribution.

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industry: Games
topics: Online gaming, Games-on-demand

Cinemagoing averages twice a year worldwide: Average visits more frequent than average in 20 countries


by: Charlotte Jones
Pages: 1 - Charts and Tables: 2
industry: Film & Cinema
topics: Cinema exhibition

Satellite pay TV platform growth: Benchmarking Europe's top five markets


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industry: Television Europe
topics: Pay television

US Spring Box Office up 30%: US cinema revenue on course for significant yearly rise


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industry: Film & Cinema
country / region: USA,
topics: Cinema exhibition, Cinema distribution

European Video Software Markets 2004: DVD market now three times size of VHS


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industry: Video & DVD Europe
topics: DVD, Video software

Online Services Boost DVD Rentals


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industry: Video & DVD
country / region: USA,
topics: DVD, Video software

Rental Still Key to Japanese Video: Despite growth in DVD retail rental remains popular


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industry: Video & DVD
country / region: Japan,
topics: DVD, Video software

Large format film runs shorten: Turnover up partly due to Hollywood LF titles


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industry: Film & Cinema
topics: Cinema exhibition, Film production / content

Spanish Television Market Profile: An active and diversified national broadcasting ecology


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industry: Television
country / region: Spain,
topics: Pay television, Free-to-air television, IPTV

Home Entertainment spend plateus: DVD growth fails to compensate for declining music sales
West European consumers spent just under Euro 27bn on home entertainment (video, music and games) in 2003, down two per cent on the previous year's figure. The decline-which follows years of growth-was due to a significant downturn in music sales in every market except the UK. A decline of just one per cent in the UK music market ensured that home entertainment spending there showed the strongest growth, of seven per cent.

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industry: Video & DVD Western Europe

Freeview Leads UK Television Race to Digitise: Over four out of five TV households will have digital by 2008


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industry: Television
country / region: UK,
topics: TV market forecasts

Global Film Production and Distribution 2004: Worldwide film production at record levels


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industry: Film & Cinema
topics: Film production / content

DVD Boosts Rental Rates in Key Territories


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industry: Video & DVD
topics: Video software

Broadband Revenue Beating Digital Pay TV: Set to win bigger number of eyeballs during 2004
Broadband subscribers now outnumber digital pay TV subscribers in Western Europe. Broadband access subscription revenues overtook digital pay TV revenues in 2003. Broadband will maintain its lead in both subscriber numbers and revenue to 2008. This is despite broadband ARPU continuing to decline while pay TV ARPU increases. When analogue pay TV is taken into account, the pay TV market will still exceed that of broadband in 2008, even when revenue from broadband content is included

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industry: Broadband

UK Film Releases go out with Most Prints: Digital releases would save $250m a year in print costs


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industry: Film & Cinema
country / region: France, Spain, UK,
topics: Cinema exhibition

Strong Rebound for Internet Advertising: Keyword search now accounts for over a third


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country / region: USA,
topics: Broadband content, TV advertising

Growth in Global Screen Count Rising Again: US Key to Recovery but Large European Markets Weakening


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industry: Film & Cinema

Digital Cinema: Year 5: The future is still on hold


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industry: Film & Cinema

Public service television programme mix


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industry: Television Europe

French production investment tops Euro 1Bn a year: But investment rise is driven by foreign funding


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industry: Film & Cinema
country / region: France,
topics: Film production / content

US has highest next-generation games tie ratios: PS2 owners will average 10 software titles each by 2005


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industry: Games

Cable ARPU in Europe up 12% in 2003: UK leads the pack with high multiple service take-up
Average revenue per cable subscriber in Europe rose 12 per cent in 2003 to Euro19. UK is the only big market where TV ARPU is higher than telephony or Internet. TV accounts for 70 per cent of cable revenues in Europe; telephony 15 per cent. More homes in UK take multiple services than in any of the other main markets. Over half of cable revenues in Spain come from telephony; almost none in France. Germany, Benelux and Finland have the lowest cable ARPU in Western Europe

by: Guy Bisson
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industry: Television

Cinema screen advertising: A still developing billion-dollar sector
Screen advertising is a relatively little explored part of the cinema exhibition sector, straddling as it does cinema exhibition and display advertising. Advertising on cinema screens has been in existence almost as long as cinema screens themselves. The medium took on new dimensions in the 1950s in, especially, Europe and Australia.

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industry: Film & Cinema

Triple-Figure growth rates for DVD recorders: Format still in its infancy in the West
Whilst DVD recorders continue to thrive in the technologically advanced Japanese market, consumer electronic sales figures analysed by Screen Digest have revealed that the format is still in its infancy in the USA and most European territories.

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industry: Video & DVD

Weak Dollar Leaves Europe with Top Ticket Prices: Price rises weakening but outright deflation less apparent


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industry: Film & Cinema
topics: Cinema exhibition

E-commerce forecast to hit $100bn by 2007


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industry: Broadband
country / region: USA,
topics: Broadband content

Broadband Becomes Cable's Main Driving Force: Triple-play services still not widespread
Cable Internet accounts for over 20 per cent of revenue in seven European countries. In Austria and Estonia cable broadband brings in over 40 per cent of revenue. Triple-play offer of television, telephony and Internet is not widely available. In the Low Countries, high consumer demand for triple-play is driving uptake. Only in the UK has digital television been a corresponding factor. Germany is seriously under-achieving in anything other than basic cable

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industry: Broadband

Broadband Creates Content Opportunities: But digital cable development is patchy
Analysing the uptake of digital television can provide a wealth of information on a country's cable market. Not only does it tell us something about the cable companies' approach and speed of roll-out but it gives an indication of consumer attitudes towards uptake of new service offers and, ultimately, their willingness to increase monthly spending on their television consumption.We shall then go on to consider some of the content being offered to consumers who take up broadband.

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industry: Broadband, Broadband
topics: Broadband content

Strong rental pushes Warner to top: DVD now accounts for three quarters of spending


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industry: Video & DVD
country / region: USA,
topics: Video software

Terrestrial share resumes downward trend: But overall viewing time at record high - again


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industry: Television
country / region: UK, Latin America
topics: TV content

Pay-per-view and video-on-demand in Europe: Awaiting cable upgrades for break-out


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industry: Television, Video & DVD
country / region: USA, Europe
topics: Pay television, Video-on-demand (VoD)

Broadband content to reach Euro 1.8BN by 2007: Market driven by basic content and fear of piracy


by: Arash Amel
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industry: Television, Broadband
topics: Broadband content

Public TV funding to slow in Europe: But market expected to be worth Euro 20bn in 2007


Pages: 1 - Charts and Tables: 4
industry: Television Europe
topics: TV content

Fourth quarter drives strong DVD player growth: New player shipped for every five households


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industry: Video & DVD
country / region: USA,
topics: DVD

Economics of DVD production


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industry: Video & DVD Europe
topics: DVD

Gaming to top Euro 4bn by 2007: UK seen as test bed for newly deregulated services


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industry: Television Europe
topics: Interactive television (iTV betting / T-commerce / iTV gaming)

Nemo' lifts Buena Vista to numero uno
Buena Vista returned to the top of the US theatrical distributor leader board last year, after a two year absence from a slot which it has now occupied for seven of the past 10 years. It also grossed a company record of $1.52bn, only the second time in history that a single distributor has achieved a gross box office in excess of $1.5bn in a single year. But Buena Vista's earnings this year were still marginally down on Sony Pictures' record breaking tally of $1.57bn in 2002.

by: Mark Smith
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industry: Film & Cinema
country / region: USA,
topics: Cinema distribution