Presentations

Packing more value into packaged media | 18 Nov 11 Tom Adams, IHS Screen Digest principal analyst & director, US Media, opened Variety's Entertainment and Technology Summit in Los Angeles with a forward-looking assessment of three technologies studios are deploying to support the value proposition of their vital packaged video retail business. The presentation provides the big picture on all forms of transactional entertainment - rental and retail, physical and electronic - across the three content types - music, games and video - facing the same challenge: how to simultaneously protect physical sales while growing the electronic-delivery side of the business. Narrowing the focus to video, Adams then looks at the prospects for three technologies - 3D Blu-ray, UltraViolet, and second-screen interactivity (on laptops and iPads) - to help stabilize the packaged video market.

Games: State of Play | 17 Nov 11 tags › Head of Games, Piers Harding-Rolls, provides an overview of the current state of the games sector towards the end of 2011. Included is reliable and up-to-date insight on the accelerated position of digital games opportunities with a direct comparison to boxed retail games sales, and an examination of the emerging business challenges faced by a rapidly evolving industry. Games: State of Play will also consider the next wave of sector opportunities, including the emergence of on-demand solutions, the intersection of mobile and social networks, and the arrival of gaming services on connected/smart TVs.

Mobile games - State of play | 10 Nov 11 Mobile Media Analyst Jack Kent assesses the current state of the mobile games industry. A focus on how the impact of social, freemium and smartphone gaming is changing the industry and driving growth.

Thailand Flood and Its Ripple Effect | 09 Nov 11 tags › Len Jenlinek, IHS iSuppli's Chief Analyst, Semiconductor Manufacturing, presented a webinar about how the Thailand floods have had an impact on semiconductor assembly and test operations. The presentation explores the catastrophe that has upset production at some of these facilities, which may require customers of these specific companies to adjust their supply strategies. However, the impact is not significant enough to have a measurable effect on overall semiconductor industry revenue growth. Semiconductor suppliers whose test and assembly operations have been affected include ON Semiconductor, ROHM Semiconductor, Lapis Semiconductor, Hana Semiconductor, Stars Microelectronics, Vigilant Technology, STATS ChipPac and Toshiba.

Goodbye and thanks for all the memories: The end of 35mm | 07 Nov 11 David Hancock, IHS Screen Digest's Head of Film and Cinema, presented a webinar on The End of 35mm. The presentation explores the value chain for 35mm film prints, detailing the pressures on print prices from raw materials such as silver, the drop-off in processing volumes, the strategic response from the film labs, and ultimately the declining demand from film distributors around the world. The ultimate objective of the presentation was to reach a conclusion as to the possible timeline of the End of 35mm as a film medium in cinemas. The presentation also includes our forecast for the moment when digital screens outnumber 35mm screens in the world.

Branding & video: a new paradigm for online advertising | 24 Oct 11 This presentation analyses the role of online video in the wider ecosystem of brand advertising. Whereas overall brand advertising as share of GDP is going to decline until the end of our forecast period in 2015, online advertising is experiencing a renaissance of brand advertising. Online video is a critical driver for this and attracts new advertiser categories, most notably FMCGs, from TV to online. However TV advertising will remain indispensable for large brand messages, even in the age of online video and changing marketing philosophies. Within online advertising, data is the new oil. Real-time-bidding, backed by a vast amount of multisource, live consumer data, is turning online advertising into a market place. This opens up new opportunities for targeting, but also entails a bifurcation of video advertising between branding and performance.

Going Global: Taking 3D to New Markets | 12 Oct 11 tags › Charlotte Jones, Senior Analyst, Cinema & Helen Davis Jayalath, Head of Video, IHS Screen Digest opened the 3D Entertainment Summit 2011 in Los Angeles with a unique granular assessment of how international 3D take up is mapping against that of the US across the entire entertainment value chain. The keynote presentation included prime 3D metrics on digital and 3D screen development, global 3D box office values, the highs and lows of international 3D ticket pricing and the role of new technology in driving further investment opportunities. Within the developing home 3D infrastructure, the presentation focused on early take-up of home 3D hardware, 3D TV channel launches and offered detailed insights into the growing BD3D release slate and studio pricing strategies, as well as the potential for handheld 3D displays in the gaming and mobile sectors

International channel strategies and benchmarking | 28 Sep 11 Guy Bisson presented on the strategies of international TV channels and benchmarked major channel owners in terms of income and reach. The presentation detailed key analysis from IHS Screen Digest's new TV Channel Intelligence service, providing granular information on more than international 400 channel brands.

The European TV programme market | 27 Sep 11 This presentation by Tim Westcott at Screen Digest's TV Channels Seminar, in London on 15 September 2011 focused on TV programme expenditure in the five major European markets. Looking at annual data from 2000 to 2010, the presentation correlated what TV groups spent on programmes with annual revenues, looked at whether pay TV platforms have taken over from free-to-air broadcasters as the main investors in programming, and touched on key developments in each country.

The future for linear TV | 27 Sep 11 Richard Broughton presented at IHS Screen Digest's TV Channels Seminar, in London 2011, addressing the subject of how much TV is consumed on a non-linear basis. With increasing concern from TV channels regarding the future of the broadcast TV business and how consumers will be viewing content in the coming years, Richard presented new IHS Screen Digest research quantifying the extent to which consumers are moving away from traditional linear TV, and gave an overview of how IHS Screen Digest believes that this behaviour will evolve over the next five years.

Bringing 3D to the home: 3D home entertainment in USA and Europe | 21 Sep 11 tags › Video analyst Tony Gunnarsson gave a key note presentation at Future2Business 3D conference in Halle, Germany, which examined the outlook for and trends in 3D home entertainment in the US and in Western Europe. The presentation covers the roll out of global digital cinema screens and the importance 3D cinema, 3D film production, the 3D home entertainment ecosystem and the first year of 3D home video. It assesses studio 3D release strategies and the likely Blu-ray Disc 3D (BD3D) release slate by the end of 2011. Tony also examined the outlook for BD3D to 2015 in the US and in Europe and impact BD3D will have on overall movie spending globally.

Digital Cinema Global and European Update | 16 Sep 11 tags › David Hancock, IHS Screen Digest's Head of Film and Cinema, opened the EDCF Digital Cinema seminar at IBC 2011. The presentation includes latest global and European d-screen data, progress maps of European d-screen penetration, a comparative graph of European BO/admissions/d-cinema weight, net installs of d-screens and 3D screens in Western and Eastern Europe, latest data on digital distribution, and a global forecast for the date at which digital screens will outnumber 35mm.