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Disney aims for more profits at Disney+ with more ads, less content, higher fees
Read more: Disney aims for more profits at Disney+ with more ads, less content, higher feeshttps://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/business/disney-earnings/index.html
“Disney+ and its other two services, ESPN+ and Hulu, together trimmed losses by $228 million, or 13%, from a year earlier to $659 million. The improvement from the previous quarter was even greater, as it trimmed losses by nearly $400 million from $1.1 billion.
Disney did it with a 2% drop in subscribers for Disney+ to 157.8 million, and a 1% drop in subscribers overall, when including ESPN+ and Hulu in subscription totals. It was able to trim losses with fewer subscribers through higher subscription revenue and a decrease in marketing costs, partially offset by higher programming and production costs. “
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65553932
“Disney has announced plans to combine content from its Disney+ and Hulu streaming services in the US.
The move comes after Disney+ lost four million subscribers in the first three months of the year, and the firm is under pressure to make its streaming business profitable
It now has a total of more than 231 million subscriptions across its three streaming platforms, which also include the sports-focused ESPN+ and wider entertainment site Hulu. Disney+ has close to 158m subscribers around the world, although that is still behind rival Netflix’s 232.5m subscribers.
The latest announcement comes after thousands of Hollywood TV and movie screenwriters held their first strike in 15 years last week. They are calling for better pay and working conditions as the transition to streaming has upended the traditional television and film industry. The last writers’ strike was in 2007. It lasted 100 days and cost the industry an estimated $2bn.”
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Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects
Read more: Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effectswww.bbc.com/news/technology-54063648
Netflix’s chairman has said working from home has no positive effects and makes debating ideas harder.
But Reed Hastings, who founded the platform, also said its 8,600 employees would not have to return to the office until most of them had received an approved coronavirus vaccine.
And he predicted most people would continue to work from home on one day a week even after the pandemic was over.
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RICOH THETA Z1 51GB camera – 360° images in RAW format
Read more: RICOH THETA Z1 51GB camera – 360° images in RAW formathttps://theta360.com/en/about/theta/z1.html
- 23MP(6720 x 3360, 7K)
- superior noise reduction performance
- F2.1, F3.5 and F5.6
- 4K videos (3840 x 1920, 29.97fps)
- RAW (DNG) image format
- 360° live streaming in 4K
- record sound from 4 different directions when shooting video
- editing of 360° images in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC
- Android™ base system for the OS. Use plug-ins to customize your own THETA.
- Wireless 2.4 GHz: 1 to 11ch or 1 to 13ch
- Wireless 5 GHz: W52 (36 to 48ch, channel bandwidth 20/40/80 MHz supported)
Theta Z1 is Ricoh’s flagship 360 camera that features 1-inch sensors, which are the largest available for dual lens 360 cameras. It has been a highly regarded camera among 360 photographers because of its excellent image quality, color accuracy, and its ability to shoot Raw DNG photos with exceptional exposure latitude.
Bracketing mode 2022
Rquirement: Basic app iOS ver.2.20.0, Android ver.2.5.0, Camera firmware ver.2.10.3
https://community.theta360.guide/t/new-feature-ae-bracket-added-in-the-shooting-mode-z1-only/8247
HDRi for VFX
https://community.theta360.guide/t/create-high-quality-hdri-for-vfx-using-ricoh-theta-z1/4789/4
ND filtering
https://community.theta360.guide/t/neutral-density-solution-for-most-theta-cameras/7331
https://community.theta360.guide/t/long-exposure-nd-filter-for-ricoh-theta/1100
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Sports Illustrated published articles under fake author names and AI-generated profile photos
Read more: Sports Illustrated published articles under fake author names and AI-generated profile photosThe magazine had repeatedly published articles whose authors could not be found online outside the Sports Illustrated website.
During the course of Futurism’s reporting, some of the alleged Sports Illustrated writers mysteriously vanished from the publication’s website — and their articles began appearing under the names of different authors who similarly didn’t appear to exist online and whose likenesses were also being sold on AI headshot marketplaces.
Following the publication of the report, a spokesperson for The Arena Group — which has operated and licensed Sports Illustrated since 2019 — told CNN that the deleted product review articles had been created by a third-party company, AdVon Commerce.
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