Reliance’s BIG entertainment is doing everything to live up to its name. The films production arm of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has said that it will produce, distribute and co-produce 69 films in Hindi, English and regional Indian languages over next two years.
This is considerably more than UTV Motion Pictures announcement of launching 18 […]
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In a rather odd experiment in reverse publishing, a collection of articles from the German Wikipedia is being produced in the printed form by publishers, Bertelsmann. Estimated to be priced at 19.95 euros,the book, “The One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia,” is expected to go on sale by September.
While I have heard of books putting their content online, […]
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By creating online games around ShahRukh Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders, Zapak is probably hoping to do a Sony SetMax - the night ShahRukh’s Knight Riders demolished Vijay Mallya’s Royal Challengers in Bangalore, Sony SetMax catapulted to the number one channel in terms of viewership across all genres, including those of the saas bahu variety, during […]
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I recently came across justvoip, a free software which allows to to make free calls to over 50 select destinations including Canada and UK and US, on purchase of credits (download link). As the site claims:
New users can try JustVoip out for free for a total of 60 minutes. During this trial period you can […]
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High-definition television (HDTV) is all set to make an entry into India by the end of this year, with direct to home operators (DTH) such as Dish TV and Reliance Communications planning to offer HDTV set-top boxes to customers. Estimates put the price of the boxes at between $85 and $100 - nearly double those […]
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Media conglomerate Network 18 is foraying into cinema screening business with plans to open a chain of theatres across India, says this article in Mint.
The group has created a separate entity ‘Starglaze’ and the entire project would be funded by the its financial arm Capital 18 and the plan is to nationally roll out multiplexes, […]
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According to the estimates prepared by CASBAA, India will require about $12-15 billion investments to upgrade its analogue cable set to digital.
Currently, there are about 71 million cable homes in the country out of a total of about 130 million television homes. But only about 6 per cent cable homes are digital, according to CASBAA […]
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The Lintas Media Guide 2008, in its analysis of media spends, reveals that expenditure on television, which makes up close to 40 per cent of the entire pie, actually dropped a bit—by 0.8 per cent over the previous year, to Rs 6,766 crore in 2007. A more traditional medium, press, nudged ahead by 3.5%. The […]
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At a time when publishers are hoping that online growth will compensate for some of the decline from the print side, the Newspaper Association of America has reported the number of unique visitors to newspaper Web sites last year rose more than 6 percent to a monthly average of 60 million. Monthly visits climbed 9 […]
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After movies on mobile phones, its the turn for gaming companies to tap the 54% active Internet users, who access entertainment related applications online.
In the first instance of an Indian movie being made into a full-length PC game, FXLab Studios has tied up with Yash Raj Films to develop D:2.5, an offline computer based game […]
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