High Definition is Not an Innovation Too Far

Posted on October 11, 2006
Filed Under Commercial Trends, European Web 2.0 pipeline |

In fact European cable companies and film makers are relying on it - they believe it will create a new market in home cinema that will suit the inherently long tail character of European movies (for which read small audiences).

From advanced TV:

Rainbow HD Holdings is launching a new global channel, VOOM HD, which will be available as a 24/7 HDTV channel on Nordic digital satellite platform Canal Digital, from November 1 in Sweden. VOOM HD offers internationally a lineup of high-definition programmes, from VOOM HD Networks’ 15 thematic HD channels in the U.S.

“As the worldwide demand for high-definition programming rapidly expands, we’re giving international cable, satellite and IPTV Telco operators an incredible opportunity to dive into HDTV with a turn-key channel that literally offers the best of the best,” said VOOM HD Networks General Manager Greg Moyer.”

Now here’s an oddity. George Lucas recently revelead he’s getting out of films and into volume TV production. So is it a good guess to say HD will create home cinema or that Hollywood will gravitate away from movies as we now know them?

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