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UltraViolet Announces Big Plans for 2012
[January 25, 2012]
We’ve written several articles during the past year about the rise of the UltraViolet format. Since it went live in November 2011, there have been a lot of questions about the format such as:
- How will the online, cloud-based “storage locker” work for watching movies?
- Can movie studios, content producers, and hardware manufacturers work together to build a successful platform?
- Will consumers find the format easy to use and worth paying for?
- Does UltraViolet have the potential to become a serious competitor to Apple’s iTunes monopoly on premium, downloadable content?
On January 10th, the group backing UltraViolet held a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that aimed to answer many of these questions. Chairman of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) Mark Teitell was the main speaker at the conference.
During the event, he announced that UltraViolet has an active userbase of 750,000 accounts nationwide. These figures are very healthy for a format that is barely three months old…