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UltraViolet – the consumer speaks

One sign of the increasing momentum of the potentially giant snowball that is UltraViolet was yesterday’s Academy on UltraViolet in Los Angeles. The no-press-allowed event was, said the organizers, “a unique chance for the home entertainment industry’s key stakeholders to come together to determine how to ensure the success of  UltraViolet technology”. The topic is now on the agenda for just about every content delivery conference, and the PEVE event in London had two consumer panels that highlighted the fact that the consumer, on the whole, is not that au fait with the initiative. We went out to find out how both the driving forces behind UltraViolet and the end users view the progress.