Paul Gluckman, Executive Senior Editor, is a 30-year Warren Communications News veteran having joined the company in May 1989 to launch its Audio Week publication. In his long career, Paul has chronicled the rise and fall of physical entertainment media like the CD, DVD and Blu-ray and the advent of ATSC 3.0 broadcast technology from its rudimentary standardization roots to its anticipated 2020 commercial launch.
Biography for Paul GluckmanRecent Articles by Paul GluckmanAs new ransomware attacks make almost daily headlines, ATSC values the security of the 3.0 suite of standards and its commercial deployment “very seriously,” insisted President Madeleine Noland. “We are vigilant” about security, she told us Friday. “It is not an afterthought. It is absolutely one of the most important parts of the standard.”Read More >>
U.S. consumers spent an estimated $14 billion on videogaming in Q2, up 2% from Q2 in 2020, reported NPD Thursday. It compiled the findings from its monthly point-of-sale retail tracking services, plus consumer data from other NPD trackers, monitors and reports.Read More >>
Netflix views its foray into games “as an extension of the core entertainment offering that we’ve been focused on for the last 20 years,” said Greg Peters, chief operating officer and chief product officer, on a Q2 video earnings interview Tuesday. Just as Netflix has “continuously expanded” into new content genres, “we think we have an opportunity to add games to that offering and deliver more entertainment value to our members through that,” he said.Read More >>
Unit growth in laptop and tablet imports to the U.S. continued at its torrid pace in May, the 14th full month of pandemic-induced demand for remote work and learning connectivity tools, according to Census data we accessed on Sunday through the International Trade Commission’s DataWeb tool. Vietnam raised its standing as a country of origin for notebook PCs and tablets, plus smartphones, which moved considerably more upmarket in May, likely due to the increasing mix of higher-priced 5G-enabled handsets.Read More >>
The House Judiciary Committee's antitrust package targeting big tech, set to be marked up Wednesday, “is an existential threat to our competitiveness,” CTA President Gary Shapiro told the Media Institute Tuesday. “The bills would effectively prohibit acquisitions by our largest companies, leaving startups and their investors, who counted on selling their companies, out in the cold.” Industry groups said this week that the bipartisan legislation would upend centuries of U.S. antitrust law (see 2106220061).Read More >>
As new ransomware attacks make almost daily headlines, ATSC values the security of the 3.0 suite of standards and its commercial deployment “very seriously,” insisted President Madeleine Noland. “We are vigilant” about security, she told us Friday. “It is not an afterthought. It is absolutely one of the most important parts of the standard.”Read More >>
U.S. consumers spent an estimated $14 billion on videogaming in Q2, up 2% from Q2 in 2020, reported NPD Thursday. It compiled the findings from its monthly point-of-sale retail tracking services, plus consumer data from other NPD trackers, monitors and reports.Read More >>
Netflix views its foray into games “as an extension of the core entertainment offering that we’ve been focused on for the last 20 years,” said Greg Peters, chief operating officer and chief product officer, on a Q2 video earnings interview Tuesday. Just as Netflix has “continuously expanded” into new content genres, “we think we have an opportunity to add games to that offering and deliver more entertainment value to our members through that,” he said.Read More >>
Unit growth in laptop and tablet imports to the U.S. continued at its torrid pace in May, the 14th full month of pandemic-induced demand for remote work and learning connectivity tools, according to Census data we accessed on Sunday through the International Trade Commission’s DataWeb tool. Vietnam raised its standing as a country of origin for notebook PCs and tablets, plus smartphones, which moved considerably more upmarket in May, likely due to the increasing mix of higher-priced 5G-enabled handsets.Read More >>
The House Judiciary Committee's antitrust package targeting big tech, set to be marked up Wednesday, “is an existential threat to our competitiveness,” CTA President Gary Shapiro told the Media Institute Tuesday. “The bills would effectively prohibit acquisitions by our largest companies, leaving startups and their investors, who counted on selling their companies, out in the cold.” Industry groups said this week that the bipartisan legislation would upend centuries of U.S. antitrust law (see 2106220061).Read More >>