All posts by Jeff Hyatt

By Janet Bartleson, Director, Dell To captivate their audience, mischievous Surly Squirrel and his rat friend Buddy need to be rendered in eye-popping detail. ToonBox Entertainmen... More

Steve Youngwood, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Digital for Nickelodeon, has been announced as a keynote speaker for their upcoming event to be held during CE Week... More

By Lyndsey Schaefer Media enterprises large and small have one thing in common today: the need for a secure way to share their valuable content across the digital supply chain. As... More

By Subhankar Bhattacharya, Global Practice Head Media & Entertainment, HCL Technologies Talks about an integrated approach to linear (television/on air) and non-linear (online... More

By Paul Sweeting Lots to unpack from today's unveiling of the new Xbox console, officially called the Xbox One (see  for an overview). Of particular note for M&E execs, howeve... More

By Paul Sweeting The government of France, which pioneered the "three-strikes" enforcement method against online piracy, all-but abandoned the strategy Monday as part of a propose... More

By Lyndsey Schaefer At yesterday’s third annual Hollywood IT Summit (HITS) at Pepperdine University in Malibu, 450 of Hollywood’s thought leaders convened to discuss the lates... More

By Lyndsey Schaefer At the upcoming Hollywood IT Summit (HITS) on May 7 at Pepperdine University in Malibu, a panel of industry experts will share their perspectives on the progre... More

By Lyndsey Schaefer The landscape of television, from production to distribution and OTT platform expansion has presented great challenges for the industry. With the growth of str... More

By Lyndsey Schaefer The Hollywood IT Society will host two panels of prominent CIOs and CTOs representing the major Hollywood studios during its HITS morning program May 7 at Pepp... More

By Paul Sweeting Apart from the ongoing dispute over its legality, one of the biggest questions hanging over Aereo has been what it wants to be when it grows up. While that compan... More

Following last week’s announcement that MESA (Media & Entertainment Services Alliance) is to launch a European affiliate, headed by experienced industry specialist, Jim Botto... More

U.S.-based entertainment trade association MESA (Media & Entertainment Services Alliance) has announced the launch of a European affiliate headed by newly appointed Executive D... More

By Lyndsey Schaefer Sony Corporation of America today announced the launch of Sony Media Cloud Services, a new cloud-based collaboration and production service that will be previe... More

By Guy Finley, Executive Director, MESA Saturday morning I woke to terrible news.  I lost a mentor and friend who helped me achieve my childhood dreams -- a man I first admired as... More

By Lyndsey Schaefer Consumer Electronics Association president and CEO Gary Shapiro said Thursday the christening of the Ultra HD format showed that Hollywood and the electronics ... More

Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and best-selling author, will join the home entertainment industry at the 9th annual ESCA Digital Conf... More

By Paul Sweeting Newly introduced legislation to allow consumers to unlock their cell phones, prompted by a statement from the Obama Administration endorsing the idea, will likely... More

The Hollywood IT Society (HITS) has announced that its 3rd Annual Hollywood IT Summit will be held on Tuesday, May 7th in the George Elkins Auditorium at the Malibu Campus of Pep... More