All posts by MESA Operations
2nd Screen Society Announces Amsterdam Event
The 2nd Screen Society announced today the 2nd Screen Summit: Amsterdam an afternoon event on Saturday, September 8 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Okura Hotel. The Summit will be ... More
MarkLogic’s Metadata Solutions Powering BBC Sport Olympics Site
By Lyndsey Schaefer When the 2012 Summer Olympics kick off this week in London, the BBC predicts that during the 100m finals, it will service a third of the UK’s Internet traffi... More
Creating the “Killer” 2nd Screen App: What Do Audiences Value the Most?
By Terence Keegan There may never be a single standard for what a second screen app should look like, or what functions it should serve — and that’s a good thing, judging from... More
Microsoft’s Pessner Shares SmartGlass Service Details (Exclusive)
By Lyndsey Schaefer Microsoft recently announced its SmartGlass™ service, which connects the Xbox experience to tablets and smartphones in an intelligent way. SmartGlass™ comm... More
Opinion: Where’s UV’s guy in the turtle neck (or hoodie)?
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I just came off of a day-long UltraViolet download. Eight hours of data and details about the next big Hollywood format. There were 250 of some of the smartest folks in home entert... More
2nd Screen Society Formed to Advance Ecosystem
A new industry group has been launched to meet the needs of the rapidly evolving ecosystem for companion screen viewing of broadcast television and home entertainment. The 2nd Sc... More
HITS Big Data Breakfast Explores New Technologies in Analytics
By Lyndsey Schaefer Executives from Hollywood studios, their IT and marketing departments, and their service provider partners discussed how data and analytics are impacting the e... More
Game Consoles Transforming Into Multimedia Entertainment Hubs
By Lyndsey Schaefer Game consoles are now becoming general entertainment consoles, as evidenced by the slew of announcements at this week’s E3 Expo, where Microsoft, Nintendo an... More
Building Critical Title Mass for Digital Video Services
By Chuck Parker In the on demand video world, title availability can either help or hinder consumer adoption. Finally ready to try a new digital video service but can't find you... More
Looking for evidence of the ‘Digital Living Room’ of the future at the NCTA’s Cable Show
by Chuck Parker When I attend industry conferences, I often spend time asking myself if I am generating enough value by attending to justify the travel cost, the time away from fa... More
Who is going to disrupt the Pay TV industry?
by Chuck Parker I’ve spent the last few weeks having renewed discussions with a variety of people whose opinion I respect in this space, including those in the Twitter-sphere, t... More
It’s Not Big Brother – It’s Big Data!
by Colleen Quinn, Teradata The “web” seems to know weird things about me. Take my old friend Netflix – just the other day, I was thrilled and shocked to see that Netflix had... More
Chuck Parker Takes Walmart’s Disc to Digital Service for a Second Spin
Will Walmart “convert” DVD consumers to its new Disc to Digital service? Chuck Parker has some new conclusions about the campaign, after taking another armful of DVDs to his lo... More
Academy on UltraViolet to Explore Technology’s Opportunities and Challenges
By Lyndsey Schaefer The upcoming Academy on UltraViolet, set for May 16 at the Luxe Hotel on Sunset in Los Angeles, is a unique chance for the home entertainment industry’s key ... More
CDSA Panel Delves Into Game Piracy Issues
Two security experts from Microsoft and The Walt Disney Studios shared their perspectives on content protection during a CDSA-produced panel at Tuesday’s LA Games Conference. Aar... More
Chuck Parker: Why is Discovery so hard to implement for video services?
by Chuck Parker Last week, it was trying to tackle one of the hardest problems on the internet -- video Discovery. Looking at consumer video services (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and e... More
CDSA Panel Delves Into Game Piracy Issues
by Lyndsey Schaefer Two security experts from Microsoft and The Walt Disney Studios shared their perspectives on content protection during a CDSA-produced panel at Tuesday’s LA ... More
Chuck Parker: Converting physical DVDs and Blu-ray discs at Walmart to my Vudu (and UltraViolet) account
by Chuck Parker A few weeks ago when the story first broke about Walmart planning to launch an UltraViolet-compatible disc-to-digital conversion service thru their own Vudu video ... More
Rimage Introducing Innovative Content Delivery Solutions
New MESA member Rimage Corporation supports businesses in delivering digital content directly and securely. Rimage’s CD, DVD and Blu-ray-Disc™ publishing solutions enable busin... More