EiDR News

EIDR Welcomes Andrew Wahlquist to Board

The Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) is welcoming Andrew Wahlquist, Director of Total Quality Management for Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution, to its board of directors. At Disney, Wahlquist leads a team responsible for quality management within the studio’s global ... More

EIDR Power Users Group to Hold Nov. 29 Vote

On Nov. 29, the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) will be holding a vote of Promoter members in to make the following changes to the EIDR Registry, which may be impactful to some members: Implement rate limiting on un-authenticated API transactions Prevent registration o... More

Engineer’s Room: Bollywood

RRR (2022) is something of a cultural phenomenon, likened to The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) by John Powers, pop culture critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, for the level of audience participation. Even though the film is now available for streaming, it still plays to theatrical a... More

EIDR Hits 5 Million Alternate IDs

The Entertainment Identifier Registry Association (EIDR), the nonprofit industry association meeting the crucial need across the entertainment supply chain for universal identifiers for audio visual objects, reached a milestone Sept. 23 with the registration of its 5 millionth Al... More

Cloud Localization Blueprint Aims to Streamline Processes

At the IBC Accelerator Kickstarter event in London earlier this year, film and TV content metadata platform Fabric made a pitch: it’s possible to streamline the localization process with a unified data architecture, removing bottlenecks and improving supply chain interoperabi... More

IBC Accelerator Programme Creates a Cloud Localization Blueprint

The IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme presented a first-of-its-kind project at IBC on Sept. 11 that brought together an all-star consortium of prominent supply chain software companies, service providers and media and entertainment companies that have explored a definiti... More

Men in Tights

As I sit here, pondering life’s many mysteries, I find myself wondering, “Why do superheroes wear their underwear on the outside of their clothes?” Are they in that much of a hurry? Is it because they’re always getting dressed in the dark? Does it have something to do wit... More

EIDR Touts the Benefits of the IBC Accelerator Program

The IBC Accelerator Media Innovation program continues to bring together collaborators from across the industry to solve problems that the entire industry faces, according to Hollie Choi, managing director of the Entertainment ID Registry Association (EIDR), one of many organizat... More

EIDR Welcomes New Member Companies, Alternate Board Member

EIDR is welcoming Imagion AG and Reelgood as new member companies, and Thuy Kim, VP of content data services at Warner Bros. Discovery, as a new alternate board member. Kim has been with Warner since 2019, beginning as VP of data governance, and then serving as VP of content met... More

Everybody Loves Bacon

On July 8, 1958 Ruth and Edmund Bacon welcomed their sixth child, Kevin, into the world. Perhaps knowing that he was destined to become the center of the universe, they stopped there. Kevin Bacon’s early acting career showed initial promise, but failed to deliver. His first fi... More