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List of Pilot Projects over the last four years:
- SF Anytime (2002-2003-2004)
- ORPHEUS (2002)
- NODAL (2002-2003)
- BIRTH (2002-2003-2004)
- Eurobox (2003)
- Digital Festival (2003)
- CinemaNet Europe (ex European DocuZone) (2003-2004-2005)
- Zooloo Kids (2004)
- MyChannel (2004)
- Reelport (2004-2005)
- MIDAS (2005)
- CN FILMS (2006-2007-2008)
- Pro2film (2008)
- Onlinefilm AG (2006-2007-2008)
- GLITNER (2007)
The ultimate goal of this project is to create a new and commercially viable
type of on-demand entertainment service with a fully digitalized distribution
chain for movies, TV programmes and other forms of video-based entertainment.
The service is distributed from a centralized database of customer intelligence
over IP-based broadband networks to broadband connected households in all the
Nordic countries.
The service is to ultimately be seen on TV through a set-top box, but during the
first phase it will mainly be directed to PCs or TV-connected PCs.
With the introduction of this on-demand service, we have the opportunity to open
up and create a new market for high quality local and European content. Lower
distribution costs and lower initial marketing costs per title will make it
possible to offer a wider variety of content, not only the most commercially
interesting products.
For more info: http://www.sf-anytime.com
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ORPHEUS aggregates a wide network of digital cinema theatres across Europe
combining all the elements (technology, content production and distribution,
theatrical exploitation) that support the current development process of Digital
Cinema. ORPHEUS theatres are located in 6 major EU cities (Berlin, Rome, Vienna,
Paris, Barcelona, Manchester), but the network is open to other theatres
interested in joining the project. In these theatres ORPHEUS proposes real-life
applications with a common feature and scope: the promotion and diffusion of
cultural audiovisual products throughout a theatre network bridging several
territories across Europe.
A total of 6 digital contents, selected among restored classic movies and opera
productions, will be delivered via satellite and projected in the cinema
theatres participating to the project. ORPHEUS wants to demonstrate how new
technologies can contribute to EU cultural preservation, supporting policies
promoted by national and EU institutions.
The project (12 months) faces all technical, business and marketing issues
relevant to cinema theatre exploitation of the above contents, with the aim of
maximising advantages for exhibitors and producers, while delivering cultural
entertainment to a Europe-wide public.
For more information, please contact: Michael Yates at
michael@elsacom.com
NODAL aims at establishing the first pan-European portal linking and extendible
network of European audiovisual archives into a shared e-commerce platform. The
project responds to a widely felt need of the stakeholders active in the
audiovisual archive business and brings together different categories of content
providers and producers. It builds upon the technological developments of
previous European projects such as Sinamma, Sinatra and Paxos, which has
delivered the prototype on which the NODAL system will be based. It integrates a
multilingual search and retrieval system with online visualization features and
with an e-commerce platform which will enable the researcher to visualize and
buy online the material he/she needs for production. It will devote important
efforts to community building and will work as an open system likely to include
further archives after completion of the pilot phase. A part of the work will be
dedicated to lay down the basis for the transformation of the platform into a
permanent and economically viable pan-European service for the community of
audiovisual archives and producers. A significant part of the work has been
carried out in the first 6 months of YEAR 1 with the definition of users needs,
technical specifications, start of technical infrastructure construction and
early dissemination activities.
For more information:
http://www.filmlibrary.tv/content/categories/categorycontent.aspx?CategoryGUID=9f1a3b47-3884-4811-a299-1de9286f4e08
The project BIRTH aims at building up a multimedia-based, multilingual pool of
archive material from the first broadcasting days of 50 years ago for online
access by different user-groups. Audiovisual content as well as accompanying
text and photographic material will be collected from 5 major European broadcast
archives in order to give online access to the first years of European
television-history in a way it has never been presented before. Both factual
information and the atmospheric “touch” of a new media’s early days will be
accessible to the user. This implies:
- research and collection of representative audiovisual material from “TV’s
early days”,
- transfer of the material to a digital long-term preservation format and the
generation of digital preview-material,
- implementation of an online archive pool for TV archive material containing
both metadata and audiovisual material.
In the third and final year of this project, the focus is laid on the
progressive fill-up of the online pool and the implementation of a business
oriented access, thus ensuring the long-term maintenance of the service.
For more information:
http://www.birth-of-tv.org/birth
To be the European market leader in digital music video distribution across all
country, cultural and language borders.
Focus on digitally supplying a huge selection of music videos by top local
artists from all European countries on demand for all bandwidths, over the
Internet, broadband and wireless devices, giving local music lovers the music
videos they want, when they want it and wherever they want it. This will offer a
serious and exciting alternative to traditional pre-programmed TV broadcasting
of music videos by:
- removing restrictive country-based broadcasting borders,
- not being bound by “24 hours programming windows” thus giving every artist
from every country the chance to be visible.
For more information:
www.musicbrigade.com
Digital Festival (2003)
In a couple of more years, digital methods for producing, distributing and
showing films will have replaced many of the current analogue systems.
Filmmakers are shifting their attention to digital producing, the major studios
are ardently promoting the digital distribution of films, while television
networks are digitising their archives in order to handle the huge amount of
data they have stored. In a recent interview, the chairman of one of the biggest
German TV networks made it clear that within a few years his network will only
accept digitally produced films.
Digital Festival aims at implementing the digital handling of films at European
film festivals and film markets.
For more information, please contact Mr. Lars Henrik Gass at
gass@kurzfilmtage.de
CinemaNet Europe (ex European DocuZone) (2003-2004-2005)
CinemaNet Europe - formerly known as European DocuZone (EDZ) - is the first
digital distribution and exhibition network across 8 European countries
specifically intended for specialized European films (documentaries, shorts,
animation and later the small art house films). CNE will facilitate the
pan-European exchange of films and offer a platform for promotional cooperation
and a complete release service ranging from extensive audience research to
programme exchange. The network includes around 180 cinemas and brings together
the experience of producers, distributors and cinema-owners. All partners have
become active in digitization because of their belief that the independent
European film sector should get a better platform of release.
Zooloo Kids (2004)
The objective of this project is to associate several European animation
producers within the company Zooloo Kids in order to create a VoD catalogue and
to exploit it on the broadband services provided over the European community.
This service will be distributed to the end users based on agreements with the
internet providers who are offering a VoD service.
With this project, the producers want to be present from the beginning on that
emerging market in order to insure an optimal distribution to their programs.
Moreover that new revenue stream may help the financing of the animation
programs in the future. In addition, the VoD service could be an efficient way
to fight against the internet piracy.
For more information:
http://www.zoolookids.com
MyChannel (2004)
MPS Broadband AB and Lupulo Ltd have formed a joint venture.
MyChannel has the main objective of developing and providing next-generation
distribution solutions for end-to-end delivery of Video on Demand over
broadband. The solution will be pan-European and allow for personalized
consumption of video, TV archives, news & entertainment.
MyChannel will be a platform for distribution of streaming media, in the
convergence between traditional broadcasting & IP-based distribution of content.
It will also provide tools for individuals who wish to publish & manage video
content over IP-based networks (broadband).
With experience from broadband-TV (MPS) and development of next-generation
database technology (Lupulo), the partners recognize a large market potential
for the solution all over Europe, yet subject to realistic market expectations
and focus on a sound business proposition.
For more information (website in construction):
http://www.mpsbroadband.com or
contact Mr. Mattias Sjöberg at mattias.sjoberg@mpsbroadband.com
Reelport aims at developing the leading online distribution platform for
European independent and art house films. Special importance will be put on the
development of new distribution interfaces for partners (eg. streaming of 1 film
to many cinemas at the same time, mobile, IP TV, VOD), transcoding technologies
for film files and the assessment of the best (ie. cheapest & fastest) way to
transport the data. DRM will also play a key role. The aim is to connect 5
schools, 3 film databases, 12 European film institutes, 3 technology partners, 4
mobile gateways and 1 or 2 European ISP offering IP TV.
For more information:
http://www.reelport.com
MIDAS (2005)
Moving Image Database and Re-use of European Film Collections: MIDAS is a EU-wide
federated database for holdings establishing technical solutions apt to make
possible the search and retrieval of archive materials held in number of
collections across Europe by centralizing the process of search and retrieval
and by overcoming the language barrier. Search result will provide available
information about the existence of the materials, their location, contact
information of the collections & identification of the related copyright
holders.
For more information: http://www.midas-film.org
The D-Platform project aims to provide solutions to two major issues faced by independent European digital distributors:
The lack of European films available in digital format:
Many independent distributors have not experimented with digital distribution, despite the advantages it offers. The number of equipped screens is still low and there is a lack of funds and staff. This project aims to support the digital releases of European films, for the 8 members of the project, through financial and operational assistance.
The emergence of new ways of distribution:
Digital projection drastically changes traditional programming and distribution methods and management. This project aims to develop a web-based platform, for which the partners will be the beta-testers. It offers them a single point where they can manage digital distribution (programming, ordering, logistics, tracking and follow-up of delivery).
In view of the fact that the film industry has been widely affected by the internet (Web 2.0 marketing, online festival accreditation, online film submission, online film databases etc.) and to address the issue of a fragmented European b2b film market, the Pro2film project has been conceived.
The project aims to join three major players to create an umbrella for European b2b solutions: In a first step, interfaces to exchange data with partners and third party projects will be created. Then, specific tools will be integrated into one another’s solutions (online screenings, film evaluations by festivals etc.). In a last step, the solution will be made available to third parties. Film professionals will be able to tailor their own interface by putting together the tools they need. With the individual strengths in Web 2.0 community (cinando) online submission and screening (reelport) and festival management (datakal) Pro2film already has the data and most core features available.
Great emphasis will be given to marketing. With the Pro2film network of festivals and buyers/sellers the project has thousands of titles and most film professionals in its databases.
Onlinefilm AG (2006-2007-2008)
The OnlineFilm.org projects aims to address the issue of the lack of availability of independent documentary productions to end-consumers. Access to documentaries is primarily controlled by major TV systems, making it difficult for independent filmmakers and producers to have direct access to their audience. On the other hand, more people have become interested in documentaries, especially for educational purposes.
OnlineFilm.org aims to fill this gap by creating a multilingual marketing and publishing platform on the internet for digital documentaries, taking into account global dimensions, national dimensions, languages, legal issues and commerce. It aims to create a portal for creative documentaries to be downloaded over the internet without high overhead costs, in different European languages, connected via multilingual technologies, offering access to films and information on films - anywhere, anytime.
Now, in year three, the focus is on adding tools to make the platform even more user-friendly. The company plans to help its international partners implement the system in their film-maker communities and to assist with marketing, the aims is also to get new partners on board (Ireland and Austria), to obtain more films and a larger audience base.
For more information: http://www.onlinefilm.org
The Glitner project aims to allow rights-holders to post their VoD rights availability per film/territory on a collaborative and user-friendly professional platform using social networking technologies. Relevant information on VoD catalogues is visible to a professional audience. Contact details are made available to contributors in order to facilitate communication and exchange. He aim is to provide the missing link between rights holders and aggregators/VoD platforms.
This service introduces rights-holders to potential VoD aggregators/distributors in order to increase the number of European works distributed outside of their national territories.
GLITNER is a source of information for the VoD market. Template mandates and exploitation contracts are available for more transparency and harmonisation in European cross-border negotiations while defending fairtrade practices.
GLITNER’s long term vision is to work collaboratively on the development of a secured technical network to facilitate file transfers across platforms and language versioning in order to avoid redundancy in costs.
For more information: http://www.glitner.eu
