Tag archive: DVD-Audio

“The approval opens the way for future DVD-Audio content to be transferred to compressed-music portables and to home HDD music jukeboxes, said David Frerichs, GM for the U.S. arm of CodingTechnologies, based here. Coding Technologies, a Forum member, expects September adoption by the Forum of a digital-rights management technology to protect a DVD-Audio disc's compressed-music zone. The DRM technology will be DVD-Audio's… Read More

CD sales still ruled supreme in 2003, with nearly 756 million total discs sold. However, that number was down 7.1 percent over 2002′s total number of CDs sold. DVD-Audio sales remained stagnant in 2003, with a 0.08 percent increase in sales to approximately 400,000, says the RIAA's "2003 Yearend Statistics" report. Sales for DVD-Audio discs were first tracked in 2001 at about 300,000 units and increased to 400,000 units in… Read More

The two companies will reportedly keep their autonomy sharing their power 50-50 but now have the opportunity to compete with Universal Music Group to become the largest record company in theworld. The Sony-BMG merger comes as two suitors are hunting down another juicy target in Warner Music (WEA). EMI reportedly is close to submitting a 1 billion dollar offer for the vast WEA operation whilebillionaire movie producer Haim Saban and former… Read More

 The combination of the two labels would reduce the "big five" down to four. CNN says both sides aren't commenting what is to be expected in such a large scale deal, if it is in fact goingdown. With the music business sucking wind for the last two years, record companies are prime for consolidation and the economies of scale that come with making two big companies into one. AOL is comingoff of the worst quarter for ANY company in… Read More

According to public reports from Sony, that is just behind their SACD players who topped 1,000,000 in November 2002 and have been selling well thanks to being a part of the very popular and affordable Sony Dream Systems. Sources inside the DVD Entertainment Group also mentioned that Soundscan, the music industry source for tracking music sales, is going to soon start tracking sales of DVD-Audio titles as a new category. Up until now it has… Read More