http://www.screendigest.com/rss/ en-gb Copyright: (C) Screen Digest 240 UltraViolet, the consortium of media, technology and retail companies established to make available a standard for video-playback inter-operability between devices and apps from diverse enablers, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 10 that it had registered 750,000 user accounts by year-end 2011. More importantly, it announced progress on most of the critical challenges it faces (see our "First UltraViolet discs hit US market", 12/16/11): obtaining retailer support, providing consumers living room access to their UV collections, putting existing disc collections into the UV cloud, and having third parties develop white-label front-ends easing entry for lots of service providers.(subscription content) http://www.screendigest.com/reports/2012031a/2012_01_ultraviolet_brings_amazon_partly_on_board_adds_disc-to-digital_functionality/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/reports/2012031a/2012_01_ultraviolet_brings_amazon_partly_on_board_adds_disc-to-digital_functionality/view.html 2012-01-31 In 2011, 3D technology was at the forefront of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, but this year, overall, 3D was much less visible. Those 3D announcements that were made tended to focus on new models of existing 3D products rather than new developments in the evolution of the technology. (free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_3d_technology_becomes_mainstream_at_ces_2012/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_3d_technology_becomes_mainstream_at_ces_2012/view.html 2012-01-31 IHS Screen Digest has updated its Croatian data and forecasts based on feedback from industry sources. The changes affect not only 2011 data and forecasts to 2015, but also some historic data. The absence of a video association in Croatia has made it difficult to find regular data on the market in recent years, and we do not expect to receive any official market statistics from the territory, so these changes represent our final year-end figures for 2011.(subscription content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_croatian_market_changes_result_in_larger_declines_for_dvd_retail_and_rental/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_croatian_market_changes_result_in_larger_declines_for_dvd_retail_and_rental/view.html 2012-01-20 Iceland's official State statistics bureau has published yearend data for video in 2010, which has enabled IHS Screen Digest to finalise its Icelandic data for that year.(subscription content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_iceland_video_2010_updated/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_iceland_video_2010_updated/view.html 2012-01-18 Spain's Sustainability Economic Law - which includes clauses covering intellectual property rights and online piracy and is popularly known as the Ley Sinde - has been ratified by the new centre-right Partido Popular government after just two weeks in office.(free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_spanish_anti-piracy_law_enacted_by_new_government/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_spanish_anti-piracy_law_enacted_by_new_government/view.html 2012-01-12 US disc-by-mail and online video provider Netflix has launched an online streaming offer in the UK and Ireland. The service, which is now available to consumers for £5.99 per month, contains a selection...(free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_netflix_launches_in_uk_and_ireland/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_netflix_launches_in_uk_and_ireland/view.html 2012-01-10 US album sales rose for the first time since 2004 to reach 330.6m units in 2011 according to Nielsen Soundscan. Of these 31 per cent, or 103.1m units, were downloads and the remaining 69 per cent were...(free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/us_recorded_music_sales_up_year-on-year_bucking_the_long-term_decline_trend/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/us_recorded_music_sales_up_year-on-year_bucking_the_long-term_decline_trend/view.html 2012-01-09 The Malaysian government has passed a new legislation targeting illegal camcorder recording in cinemas. (free content) http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_anti-piracy_legislation_passed_in_malaysia/view.html http://www.screendigest.com/news/2012_01_anti-piracy_legislation_passed_in_malaysia/view.html 2012-01-09