Digital Entertainment
- Microsoft working on Digital Entertainment handheld - Slippery Brick
- Here'sa rumor that we'd all like to see come true. A handheld portable that combines the Xbox 360 with the Zune. The project is codenamed “xYz,” and is said to feature a WVGA touchscreen. It will let you play music and movies on the device as well as...
- Regal Entertainment Group to Install Sony 4K Digital Cinema ... - SYS-CON Media (press release)
- Regal Entertainment Group, the largest motion picture exhibitor in the world, and Sony Electronics announced an agreement for the installation of Sony 4K digital projection systems across its entire circuit over the next 3 to 5 years, which will create...
- TVN Entertainment Finds Merger Partner In Avail Media - Multichannel News
- Morgan Stanley, through its Princes Gate Investors fund, bought into TVN in 1997, when digital-cable video services were beginning to roll out, according to securities filings. In fiscal 1998, it invested $45 million in TVN, according to a 1999 filing....
- Microsoft Working on Digital Entertainment Handheld - TeamXbox
- When I got the first piece of information regarding a Microsoft digital entertainment handheld last year, I wanted to be sure it wasn't just a wild gossip. In a time when people is afraid of losing their jobs because of the global recession,...
- Read all 'Corporate & legal' posts in Digital Media - CNET News
- Revenue in the electronics business declined 17 percent. Sales were actually up for Sony's Bravia hdtvs, but down for camcorders, digital cameras, and pcs. On the entertainment side, sales dropped 16.4 percent. Motion picture and TV revenues grew but...
- Read all 'Consumer content' posts in Digital Media - CNET News
- ... called out as criminals. by Greg Sandoval RealNetworks, the company behind the Real media player and Rhapsody music service, could this week become the latest courtroom conquest of the entertainment industry's fierce efforts to protect copyrights....
- People and Accounts of Note - New York Times
- ... and national sales director at Entertainment Weekly. Jeremy Daly joined the flagship New York office of Euro RSCG Worldwide, part of Havas, in a new post, director for digital planning. He had most recently been director for planning at Agency.com,...
- Ride the Blu-ray Wave This Summer For the Ultimate in Hi-Def ... - Magical Mountain
- Beginning in May Buena Vista Home Entertainment proudly presents an all-new collection of Blu-ray releases, each digitally re-mastered with mind blowing high definition picture and sound that will keep you entertained for hours on end....
- DEG: Entertainment Sales Down in Quarter - Dealerscope
- DEG (The Digital Entertainment Group) reported figures Monday stating that revenues for the home entertainment industry dropped five percent in the first quarter of this year, a five percent drop off the same period in 2008....
Konami Digital Entertainment
Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. is Konami Corporation's Japanese video game development and publishing division.
Before Konami Corporation had formally changed to a holding company in 2006, various forms of Konami Digital Entertainment companies had been established either as holding company or publisher. The last of the company, the Japan-based Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd., was split from Konami Corporation during the holding company restructuring process.
Celestial Digital Entertainment
Celestial Digital Entertainment Limited (CDE) is a Hong Kong based corporation, which was incorporated in 2002, that develops online games and MMORPGs.
CDE's first MMORPG, Stargate Online, was launched in 2003 and won the 2nd annual Hong Kong Digital Entertainment Excellence Awards.
Digital Entertainment Network
Digital Entertainment Network (DEN.net) was a multimedia dot-com company.
Rector hired traditional media executives from Broadcast TV, Film, Commercials, Documentary and Cable to create a destination website featuring serialized "6 minute shows" on the internet.
Launched in 1996, it raised 72 million dollars from a combination of private investors and venture capital firms. The site launched in May 1999, and produced 26 original series aimed at teenage boy subcultures, including gay teens, Christian kids and extreme sports enthusiasts.
After a substantial amount of hype, the site itself turned out to be rather conventional for the time. DEN developers wrote the ports for Windows Media Player, Quicktime and Real Player for the Linux OS, which helped enable sites like youtube and myspace. DEN Developers also obtained a patent for delivering video advertising over the internet. DEN.NET Streaming media content was delivered in three formats and three different download speeds. DEN signed record breaking advertising deals with sponsors such as Ford, Microsoft, Pepsi, Penzoil, Blockbuster Entertainment and DELL.
Many industry observers noted that DEN was a quintessential example of the excesses and lack of control of the dot-com craze.
The company's troubles mounted after its three founders, including its chairman Marc Collins-Rector (who settled a lawsuit alleging a sexual relationship with a child and registered in Florida as a sex offender.) resigned. A 75 million dollar IPO was cancelled in February 2000; in May the company told its remaining staff (it had laid off over 100 people earlier) that it no longer had any money with which to pay them; later it filed for bankruptcy. Subsequently, civil lawsuits from boys employed by DEN alleged sexual abuse and coercion using drugs and guns by Collins-Rector, co-founder Chad Shackley, and DEN Executive VP Brock Pierce.
Many of the DEN alumni have gone on to create other internet sites including suicide girls, current.tv, Proxicom, Revver, Disney, Hollywood Records, MTVI, Procter & Gamble, Warner Reprise Records, the Aspen Comedy Festival, Nike, Dark Horse Comics, The Emmys, IXL, Static, Warner Bros Music, South Park, Marilyn Manson, HBO and MTV, Intuit, CNN. DEN and its founders have been the subject of many subsequent media articles and parodies.
EON Digital Entertainment
EON Digital Entertainment was a computer games publishing company based in London, UK, operating globally. It was founded by John Burns, now of Electronic Arts and a former Managing Director of Activision Europe as well as senior management figure at Atari, Sega and Bandai. Other management included Sara Pelton of Ubisoft&Activision, James Cato of Take 2 Interactive and several other experienced industry management figures.
The company was founded in 2000, initially targeting the PlayStation and GameBoy platforms. Later they went on to also publish several PC and PlayStation 2 games, the first one was called Airfix Dogfighter. In 2000 the company merged with an Italian Distributor, Gaming TV station and Website to form 'Digital Bros' a planned 'Total gaming company' which subsequently floated on the Italian stock exchange in late 2000. In 2002, EON was closed after Burns departed the company leaving some developers like Bethesda Softworks to search for new publishers. EON for example had been set to release The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and Sea Dogs in Europe as well as Star Trek Elite Force and others.
Ripe Digital Entertainment
Ripe Digital Entertainment (RDE) is an on-demand digital entertainment company with television networks. RDE was founded byt CEO Ryan Magnussen. Launched in 2005, RDE is credited with developing the first multi-platform television on demand network, offering instant access to men’s lifestyle entertainment through Cable On demand, broadband and mobile outlets. RDE programming consists of original and packaged short-form video content ranging from five to fifteen minutes in length.
Ripe’s networks-- Ripe TV, Octane TV and Flow TV are delivered free over multiple platforms (cable VOD, broadband, and mobile). RipeTV, launched in October 2005, as the first multi-platform lifestyle On Demand network featuring interest-based content for men including beautiful women, sports, comedy and antics programming that men like and seek. OctaneTV, which launched in August 2006, is geared toward automotive enthusiasts and motorized sports fanatics. FlowTV which launched April 2007 is a hip hop lifestyle network geared toward adults 18-34.
RDE networks reach 92 million subscribers through various distribution partners. Content distribution partners include Comcast, Time Warner, Insight Communications, MediaCom, Verizon Fios for On Demand, internet syndication through AOL, Google, and Yahoo and mobile content through the websites, Helio and Sprint. Montreal based Distraction Formats distributes RDE's extensive library, branded channel and formats around the globe.
RDE networks can be accessed through local cable provider Video On Demand channels, you can find RipeTV and OctaneTV in the Cutting Edge section of the menu and FlowTV in the MUSIC section , broadband portals RipeTV, OctaneTV, FlowTV, and mobile devices for streaming and download. RipeTV programs include: Sexy & Single, Stuff4Dudes, Wild Girls Vegas and Hollywood Burn. Octane TV originals include: Sexy Road Test, Crashed, Zig, Zag and Hot Import Nights. Flow TV orginials include VIP Lounge, Flow Live and Flowlicious.
RDE Networks formats, programs formats, and 2500 Episodes of male 18-34 targeted programing is distributed worldwide outside the USA by Distraction Formats.
