New market intelligence report for optical media to be launched in January 1998 (you gotta pay).....................
I guess this DVD thing is for real...........
-MICROINFO: Microinfo exclusive -- Introducing the definitive
optical media market intelligence service
M2 PRESSWIRE-10 December 1997-MICROINFO: Microinfo exclusive -- Introducing the definitive optical media
market intelligence service (C)1994-97 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
Launching as an annual subscription service in January 1998, the all-new Worldwide Optical Media Market Intelligence
Service (WOMMIS) produced by the International Recording Media Association (ITA), provides an authoritative
source of market statistics and intelligence, for every organisation involved in the manufacture and supply of optical media
and associated materials and equipment.
The International Recording Media Association, headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, is a major Trade Association
for companies worldwide with interests in optical media. The Association's 450 members include every 'household' name
in the professional and consumer optical media business. Well known examples include Polygram, Panasonic, Sony,
JVC, Verbatim, Eastman Kodak, Fuji, Maxell, Sonopress, Nimbus, Dolby, EMI and many more. Thus ITA is in daily
contact with every organisation of merit engaged in supplying, manufacturing, replicating, and distributing both consumer
and professional optical media products and services. Additionally, many Association members provide materials and
equipment for the manufacture of optical media products.
The new Market Intelligence Service will cover all current and future optical media formats commencing with CD-Audio,
CD-ROM, CD-R & RW, Video CD, MD, DVD- Video, DVD-Audio, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD-R,
Magneto-Optical and Phase Change Recordable Optical.
The Worldwide Optical Media Market Intelligence Service will provide subscribers with the information, insights and
analysis needed to define their current position in the market and help them plan for the future. It will include:
* The current "State of play" of all major manufactured and replicated optical media formats and 5-year projections for
their future.
* The growth of new formats (DVD-R, PD, MO, ASMO, etc.) and their potential impact on existing formats.
* Identification and analysis of major trends and factors influencing the future of the optical industry.
The service will provide the following information, data and analysis for every major optical format:
-- Units manufactured and replicated (current and future)
-- Factory revenues (current and future)
-- Program applications in units and revenue (music, video, data, etc.)
-- Manufacturing and replication capacity/utilisation
-- Technological developments and their impact on current markets
-- Equipment installed base
-- Identification of trends and major issues with analysis of their affect on the future The information will be organised into
four major regions of the world: North America, Europe, Japan and Remaining Regions.
WOMMIS will also report on the impact of issues likely to affect the industry such as emerging programme and data
delivery technologies which compete with optical formats, i.e. satellite, cable and Internet.
The Worldwide Optical Media Market Intelligence Service has been designed to provide the information, analysis and
insights for subscribers involved in the following lines of business in the optical media industry:
-- Replication and Writeable Equipment Manufacturers (injection moulding, replication, inspection/test, packaging, etc.)
-- Raw Material Suppliers
-- Writeable Optical Media Manufacturers and Replicators
-- Printers, Labellers and Packagers
-- Optical Program Suppliers
-- Equipment Manufacturers (consumer & professional)
-- Financing, Leasing and Investing
As has happened with previous Market Intelligence Reports and Services offered by ITA since 1993, the service will
become the 'reference bible" of the optical media industry. It will serve as the common benchmark for information,
analysis and statistics for all levels of management, researchers, planners and investors. Microinfo Ltd., a specialist
information services company closely associated with the optical media industry for many years, has been selected to
offer the new service on behalf of ITA in Europe.
CONTACT: Brian Bridge, Microinfo LTD Tel: +44 (0)1420 86848 |
