Monday, November 07, 2005
NOV 7-8: TV DVD 3, CONFERENCE & AWARDS
TV shows on DVD, once the Next Big Thing, is now the New Big Thing. It's here, Big Time. As the folks at Home Media Retailing say, "it’s not just a business, but a true pop cultural phenomenon". This explosion in content and awareness is one reason HMR's third annual TV DVD confab promises to be the best yet. Dates: November 7 & 8, 2005, at the Marriott Marina del Rey hotel. Highly recommended event -- great networking, panels, and awards celebration. (TRR rating: ***** ). Below: the organizers' event summary. ---D.R.(Editor)
The number of TV DVD packages being pumped into the market is staggering — shipments are running 50 percent ahead of last year — and so are sales, which are growing at an annual rate of 30 percent. On virtually every street date hot theatrical features have to contend with as many as a dozen, or more, just-as-hot TV DVD releases. And several articles in the national press recently have surmised that TV DVD is changing the way Americans watch television.
For the third consecutive year, Home Media Retailing is presenting a fall summit for television and DVD executives exclusively devoted to this lucrative business, which according to recent estimates, accounts for 24 percent of the entire DVD market.
The industry’s top professionals will discuss key issues, trends and developments, including promoting series jointly on DVD and on the air, packaging efficiencies in the face of a growing retail shelf space crunch, viral and fan-based marketing and product proliferation.
Also on tap will be exclusive market research presentations, informative and educational seminars and workshops, a TV producers’ panel, a special celebrity keynoter, a cocktail party and the Second Annual TV DVD Awards.
Advance registrations are $345 for members of DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group and subscribers to The Hollywood Reporter, and $395 for nonmembers. Registrations include admission to all programs as well as lunch, breaks and cocktail party. The event is open to the trade only. For registration and other information, please visit www.dvdconferences.com .
The number of TV DVD packages being pumped into the market is staggering — shipments are running 50 percent ahead of last year — and so are sales, which are growing at an annual rate of 30 percent. On virtually every street date hot theatrical features have to contend with as many as a dozen, or more, just-as-hot TV DVD releases. And several articles in the national press recently have surmised that TV DVD is changing the way Americans watch television.
For the third consecutive year, Home Media Retailing is presenting a fall summit for television and DVD executives exclusively devoted to this lucrative business, which according to recent estimates, accounts for 24 percent of the entire DVD market.
The industry’s top professionals will discuss key issues, trends and developments, including promoting series jointly on DVD and on the air, packaging efficiencies in the face of a growing retail shelf space crunch, viral and fan-based marketing and product proliferation.
Also on tap will be exclusive market research presentations, informative and educational seminars and workshops, a TV producers’ panel, a special celebrity keynoter, a cocktail party and the Second Annual TV DVD Awards.
Advance registrations are $345 for members of DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group and subscribers to The Hollywood Reporter, and $395 for nonmembers. Registrations include admission to all programs as well as lunch, breaks and cocktail party. The event is open to the trade only. For registration and other information, please visit www.dvdconferences.com .
