EIDR is pleased to announce the schedule for the deployment of EIDR 2.5. This release will swap out our existing de-duplication subsystem for a completely new one. There will be no change to the API, but de-duplication results will change. The date for this release has been delay... More

By Jack Wyrick, Business Development, Chesapeake Systems - Coffee: check! Power cable plugged in: check! Favorite home-office chair: check! Remote access to media: check? While COVID-19 is testing the flexibility and preparedness of media teams around the world, enabling a... More

Each year, March 17 brings us St. Patrick’s Day – originally celebrated as the Feast of Saint Patrick, in honor of the patron saint of Ireland,[1] and one of four national saint feast days in the United Kingdom.[2] It is still celebrated as a public holiday in the Republic of... More

The Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) board has a plan for achieving 100% title registration by the end of 2020. That means all new content being released from each participant company will have an EIDR tag, regardless of who created it or where it falls in the supply chai... More

Enhancements continue to be made to the Language Metadata Table (LMT) open-source table of language metadata codes geared toward the broadcast and entertainment industries, and the latest release – version 3.1 – will be released some time this quarter, according to Yonah ... More

The EIDR Power User Group is looking to continue leveraging member knowledge and influence this year, according to EIDR board members. “Something that has always moved EIDR forward from the beginning is when actual users are doing important things, sharing it with colleagues... More

LOS ANGELES — The latest significant stack improvement to EIDR, EIDR 2.5, will launch on Saturday, April 25, bringing with it reliability and resilience for both registry and de-duplication, 100% compatibility with the current installed base, and significant performance improve... More

As you all well know, February 11 is celebrated each year as Lateran Treaty Day in Vatican City, marking, as it does, the anniversary of the 1929 treaty between the Italian state and the Holy See that established Vatican City as a sovereign state, situated entirely within the cit... More

Nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards are out and this year 57 different movies have been recognized with 124 individual nominations in 24 separate categories, led by Joker with 11 nominations in total including Best Picture, Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix), and Best Director (Tod... More

2019 was an eventful year, but it may turn out to be most memorable for what didn’t happen. Audiovisual works – movies, TV programs, and video games – are often set in an unspecified future with flying cars and everyone wearing matching jumpsuits, but some works put a speci... More