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Digital Is Key For Broadcasting Conference
News Before, there was much talk about interactive digital television, but you really didn't have the tools to be able to create compelling interactive television or video-on-demand programs," said Peggy Miles, president of Intervox Communications and...
[April 8, 2002, 14:36]
Game Bigwig To Rivals: You're History!
News In a speech throwing down the gauntlet, Douglas Lowenstein, president of the Interactive Digital Software Association, said the games industry will soon supplant movies and television as the preferred mode of home consumer entertainment.
[May 12, 2000, 14:12]
Gates Woos Cable Companies To Microsoft Middleware
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, speaking at the opening session of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's annual trade show, outlined his company's new software for bridging cable television and interactive digital technology.
[June 10, 2003, 7:21]
US Report: Violent Video Games Under Fire
News The primary voice for the industry, the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA), responded quickly. The repeated, annual ritual of focusing on the tiny minority of games and, this year, ads with violent content creates a distorted view of...
[December 2, 1998, 18:06]
Industry Bigwigs Near Interactive TV Deal
News In addition, Intel's Intercast technology for sending interactive data over both digital and analog broadcast networks is a good candidate for the foundation of the future specification. Originally, the new framework was to be announced at the...
[January 19, 1998, 10:40]
Industry Bigwigs Near Interactive TV Deal
News In addition, Intel's Intercast technology for sending interactive data over both digital and analog broadcast networks is a good candidate for the foundation of the future specification. Originally, the new framework was to be announced at the...
[January 19, 1998, 10:40]
Game Companies Blast Pirates In New Case
News It's the most significant action we've taken to date," said Doug Lowenstein, president of the Interactive Digital Software Association, a game-industry trade group. Six companies joined the association in filing the suit in US District Court in San...
[August 16, 1999, 16:25]
Clearing A Path To Mac At E3
News Last year entertainment software sales grew 11 percent, topping $6.1bn, said Interactive Digital Software Association (ISDA) president Douglas Lowenstein. In addition, ATI Technologies, 3dfx Interactive, Gravis, and other Mac hardware vendors...
[May 15, 2000, 9:31]
ECTS: Copying CDs Just Got Harder
News According to the US-based Interactive Digital Software Association, over $3.2 billion (£1.95 billion) was lost to software pirates in 1997. SafeDisc is a software solution that requires no changes to either PC or CD-ROM hardware and works by...
[September 7, 1998, 10:34]
Microsoft Moves Flash Rival Into Spotlight
News On Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft launched Silverlight, a web browser plug-in for playing media files and displaying interactive web applications.
[April 17, 2007, 12:26]
AOL Enters The Rating Game
News The ESRB is an independent rating system established by the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA) in 1994. Including an "I" in a rating indicates to parents the game includes interactive elements like chat rooms and bulletin boards where...
[November 19, 1999, 10:02]
Game Violence: All In The Family?
News Doug Lowenstein, president of the Interactive Digital Software Association -- which runs E3 and represents 35 companies that make up 90 percent of entertainment and edutainment software sales -- has already promised the Senate subcommittee that...
[May 10, 1999, 8:19]
US Report: HDTV Will Bow To The Computer
News Announcements include specialised chips that allow digital TV signals and interactive content to be picked up on personal computers and set-top boxes. The 'reference platform' highlights the company's TL850 graphics processor, code-named Cougar...
[November 10, 1998, 8:52]
Kazaa Loses Court Battle
News Justice Wilcox also ordered respondents Sharman Networks, LEF Interactive, Sharman chief executive Nicole Hemming, Altnet and Brilliant Digital Entertainment boss Kevin Bermeister to pay 90 percent of the music industry's court costs.
[September 5, 2005, 15:55]
Pace Forges Ahead With Microsoft Deal
News Pace is currently showing off some of its concepts for the future of the networked home at the National Cable Television Association conference in New Orleans. Microsoft is determined to have its operating system in a large proportion of the...
[May 9, 2000, 15:52]
Apple, Compaq Adding Recordable DVD Drives
News Sales of consumer digital camcorders, for example, which shoot movies that can be quickly transferred to a PC for editing, swelled to $3.3bn last year, or 5.7 million units, according to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
[January 9, 2001, 17:02]
Video Games Get 'art' Status In The US
News The Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA), which challenged the ordinance alongside other video game industry associations, cheered the ruling. A federal appeals court panel has struck down a law that restricted children's access to...
[June 4, 2003, 9:53]
Copy Protection Takes Stealth Approach
News The Interactive Digital Software Association, the main trade group for the video and computer game industry, estimates that worldwide piracy cost the game industry $3bn last year. Software makers have tried all sorts of heavy-handed measures to...
[June 28, 2002, 12:06]
How About A BA In Quake?
News Carolyn Rauch, senior vice president of the Interactive Digital Software Association, said programs like the one being enacted at UC Irvine will help generate smart workers. That kind of broad knowledge base is exactly what Paul Grace, vice...
[March 3, 2000, 10:03]
Violent Games - Shootings Connected?
News The American Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA), the primary defender of the video game industry, and Id Software, the maker of Doom, were unavailable for comment by this article's deadline.
[April 23, 1999, 7:59]
