Video Age International June/July 2016

I N T E R N A T I O N A L www.V i deoAge.org THE BUSINESS JOURNAL OF FILM, BROADCASTING, BROADBAND, PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION June/July 2016 - VOL. 36 NO. 5 - $9.75 T he potential size of the in- flight entertainment (IFE) business is mind-boggling: Around the world, there are over 37 million commercial airline flights each year. These flights are made with 25,000 aircrafts; of those, just half have IFE. Over 750 million passengers a year are exposed to IFE services, out of three billion (in 2014) worldwide passengers. IFE services cost airlines an estimated $2.85 billion in 2015. This figure is expected to rise to $5.8 billion in 2020. But with the advent of on-board Wi-Fi, changes are “in” the air and “on” the air, which could cloud the current business model for the IFE industry. For the time being, however, the sky is the limit. In the recent past, in content business lingo IFE sales were called “ancillary” rights. Earlier, they were referred to as “non-theatrical” rights (and, in addition to IFE, they included ships at sea, prisons, hotels and schools), while nowadays they are simply Is In-Flight Entertainment An IFEey Business For CSPs? (Continued on Page 20) My2¢: Elegance should be unnoticeable, but I notice the unnoticeable L.A. Screenings: Studios flooding the market with quality content Colin P. Davis, Int’l TV Distribution Hall of Fame honoree Argentina’s Jornadas , Italy’s Prix Italia, Famous Quotes Page 26 Page 14 Page 10 Page 4 W hen Hungary’s newly elected conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orbán enacted a newmedia law in 2010, the E.U. went up in arms denouncing its illiberal bias. In July 2013 the European Union Parliament adopted a resolution stating that it was concerned NewMedia Laws ToAffect TVBiz in Hungary, Poland (Continued on Page 18) (Continued on Page 8) N ATPE in Europe was born in Budapest in 1991 as Discop. The market was moved to Prague in 2014, and this year it returns to Budapest once again. This is the market in a nutshell, but before getting to the pulp inside the shell, let’s review the various name changes that reflect the uneasy lifespan of the market until today and its new life under a new COO. After 18 years, Discop became Discop East (when founder Patrick Zuchowicki developed other Discop markets in parts of Africa and in NATPE inEurope: Back inBudapestwith NewCOOJPBommel