Sony says the "demand for physical media is contracting faster than anticipated." They say that is especially true in Europe. And this is affecting their business in a big way. Sony invented this format back in 2006 competing at the time against the HD-DVD format....
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Sales Tax Answers For Video Producers
The rates above may change. For current rates see State Sales Tax Sites for Video Producers. The fact is that every business must collect sales tax on taxable goods and services. Failure to do so could be a very expensive mistake. One possible consequence of...
Itinerant Filmmaking
In the 1930s Texas-born filmmaker Melton Barker began to mass produce a short formula film that would star neighborhood kids which he charged their parents for. Barker would repeat this same script in numerous towns changing only the child actors. It was called...
Produce A PSA For TV and Online Distribution
Produce a PSA or Public service announcement like those by the Ad Council. These public service announcements have become a part of our culture. Even though the air time is free, there's a lot of competition by non-profit agencies for this free air time. PSAs Are Not...
Video Growing as Print Newspapers Decline
The NY Times, like nearly all newspapers is shrinking. A great many are already out of business. Jill Abramson, the executive editor of the NY Times recently sent a memo to her staff. It says that the Times is shrinking its staff by offering many staffers buyout...
Crowdsourcing Commercials With Poptent
An example of a Poptent video for Paypal that was purchased for $7500. Poptent is a crowdsource exchange that connects producers with advertisers. The arrangement produces thousands of commercial videos each year for clients which include numerous Fortune 500 brands...
A Great Time For Documentaries
We've come a long way from the days when the only way you could see a documentary was if you lived in a big city that had an art house theater and happened to know which of the one or two days a particular film was playing. Today, the Internet is exploding with...
Why I Self-Distribute My Documentaries (11 so far)
by David Wittkower I went the distributor route many years ago when everyone told me that was the way to go, but the promises of quarterly reports did not happen and the checks were so small. So I confronted them about it and they finally admitted that I was one of...
Where to Upload HD Video
YouTube YouTube is the third most popular website after Google and Facebook. And YouTube is now HD. They offer the ability to stream 1280×720 at up to 2mb/sec using H.264 encoding and AAC audio. Accessible from the largest number of platforms and with the largest...
Produce Your Own TV Show On Public Access TV
And Take an Inexpensive Video Course Excerpted From Marketing With Digital Video by Hal Landen Public access stations are created when a cable company negotiates a franchise agreement with a local government. Not all franchise agreements include these public access...
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