Technology

Chad Hurley, the co-founder and CEO of YouTube, will deliver the opening keynote speech for MIPCOM’s first Broadband Video Summit on 15 October.

Chad Hurley, the co-founder and CEO of YouTube, will deliver the opening keynote speech for MIPCOM’s first Broadband Video Summit on 15 October.

In the latest example of a video on demand service, American online DVD rental company Netflix three weeks ago launched a set top box that can stream movies directly to subscribers’ television sets. Priced at $99, the box quickly sold out.

All those wishing, hoping and praying for a resolution to the Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) / Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) negotiations by 30 June...

All those wishing, hoping and praying for a resolution to the Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) / Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) negotiations by 30 June, the date on which SAG’s current contract expires, were disheartened on 12 June by SAG President Alan Rosenberg’s admitting that a new deal was unlikely to be concluded by that date.

The South African Script Writers’ Union (SASWU) and its training arm, The Scriptwriting Institute, have called a public meeting on 21 June in Johannesburg to address their current funding crisis.

The Directors Guild of Great Britain (DGGB) has deregistered as a trade union and today redefines its role by becoming a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) to support the work of sister charity the Directors Guild Trust in promoting and developing the craft of directing.

The June 2008 Industry Trends Survey of IABM members reports a notable change of sentiment amongst senior executives in the broadcast and media technology sector.

The weekly podcasts of the South African online production Earth-Touch have been nominated in the ARKive New Media Award category of the coveted Panda Awards, to be presented at the Wildscreen wildlife film festival in Bristol in October.

South African filmmakers Helena Noguiera (Ingrid Jonker: Her Lives & Time) and Junaid Ahmed (More Than Just a Game)...