International Television & Video Almanac
Author | : Quigley Publishing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Television broadcasting |
ISBN | : 9780900610769 |
International Television & Video Almanac, 1993
Author | : Barry Monush |
Publisher | : Quigley Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780900610493 |
Video and DVD Industries
Author | : Paul McDonald |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 183902111X |
When the videocassette recorder was launched on the consumer market in the mid-1970s, it transformed home entertainment. Bringing together complementary but also competing interests from the consumer electronics industry and the film, television and other copyright industries, video created a new sector of media business. Two decades later, DVD reinvented video media for the digital age. DVD provided consumers with an innovative form of entertainment technology and almost instantaneously became the catalyst for a huge boom in the video market. Although the VCR and DVD created major markets for video hardware and software, the video business has been continually shaped by industry conflicts and tensions. Repeatedly the video market has become divided when faced with the introduction of competing formats. Easy reproduction of films and other works on cassette or disc made video software a lucrative market for the copyright industries but also intensified struggles to combat the effects of commercial piracy. 'Video and DVD Industries' examines the business of video entertainment and provides the first study looking at DVD from an industrial perspective. Detailing divisions in the video business, the book outlines industry battles over incompatible formats, from the Betamax/VHS war, to competing laserdisc systems, alternatives such as video compact disc or Digital Video Express, and the introduction of HDDVD and Blu-ray high-definition systems. Chapters also look at the formation of international markets in the globalization of video media, the contradictory responses of the Hollywood studios to video and DVD, and the legal and technological measures taken to control industrialized video piracy.
The Encyclopedia of Television, Cable, and Video
Author | : R.M. Reed |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 635 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 146846521X |
This is a major reference work about the overlapping fields of television, cable and video. With both technical and popular appeal, this book covers the following areas: advertising, agencies, associations, companies, unions, broadcasting, cable-casting, engineering, events, general production and programming.
The World Television Industry
Author | : Peter Dunnett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2010-12-31 |
Genre | : Television |
ISBN | : 0415615194 |
First published in 1990, The World Television Industry uses economic analysis to examine recent changes in the television industry. It uses the theory of public good and a model of industrial organization to identify the major forces determining the nature of the television product in the late twentieth century. The forces of supply and demand for an unusual product - often requiring a 'double' sale, to a consumer and to an advertiser - are examined, as are alternative methods of financing. The all-pervading role of government is discussed at length.
Videoland
Author | : Daniel Herbert |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2014-01-24 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0520279611 |
Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans socialized around movies and collectively made movies meaningful. When films became tangible as magnetic tapes and plastic discs, movie culture flowed out from the theater and the living room, entered the public retail space, and became conflated with shopping and salesmanship. In this process, video stores served as a crucial embodiment of movie cultureĆs historical move toward increased flexibility, adaptability, and customization. In addition to charting the historical rise and fall of the rental industry, Herbert explores the architectural design of video stores, the social dynamics of retail encounters, the video distribution industry, the proliferation of video recommendation guides, and the often surprising persistence of the video store as an adaptable social space of consumer culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, cultural geography, and archival research, Videoland provides a wide-ranging exploration of the pivotal role video stores played in the history of motion pictures, and is a must-read for students and scholars of media history.
Plunkett's Entertainment & Media Industry Almanac
Author | : Jack W. Plunkett |
Publisher | : Plunkett Research, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 591 |
Release | : 2009-01-22 |
Genre | : Authors and publishers |
ISBN | : 1593921306 |
Offers profiles on many of firms in film, radio, television, cable, media, and publishing of various types including books, magazines and newspapers. This book contains many contacts for business and industry leaders, industry associations, Internet sites and other resources. It provides profiles of nearly 400 of top entertainment and media firms.
Science Fiction Television Series
Author | : Mark Phillips |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 1475 |
Release | : 2014-05-12 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476610304 |
Whether rocketing to other worlds or galloping through time, science fiction television has often featured the best of the medium. The genre's broad appeal allows youngsters to enjoy fantastic premises and far out stories, while offering adults a sublime way to view the human experience in a dramatic perspective. From Alien Nation to World of Giants, this reference work provides comprehensive episode guides and cast and production credits for 62 science fiction series that were aired from 1959 through 1989. For each episode, a brief synopsis is given, along with the writer and director of the show and the guest cast. Using extensive research and interviews with writers, directors, actors, stuntmen and many of the show's creators, an essay about each of the shows is also provided, covering such issues as its genesis and its network and syndication histories.