Alive Studios sponsor local boxer ‘Zane Turner’

Despite international recognition as one of the leading film transfer houses in the world, Alive Studios remains a down to earth, family-run business, with their feet firmly planted in the Devon sand.
Renowned for their unique skills in transferring and restoring old Cine Film and Video Tapes to Digital, co-founder Steven is now using his skills in his beloved sport of boxing…

Originally from Torquay, a move to a new Teignmouth studio earlier this year gives the team an unrivalled view of the ocean from their desks, highlighting their love of the sea and all things Devon.

“We are so passionate about our community” explains Jennie, MD of Alive Studios “and we try to support local business and enterprise wherever possible”.  From buying thousands of boxes of local fudge to package with orders, “which our London clients love!” to supporting local events and people, we ask the team why they’ve chosen Zane Turner this year.

“We are always looking for exciting ways to use our skills locally” enthuses creative Director Steven Flowers, “and this year we couldn’t have found a better project to get behind than supporting a home-grown sportsman, so dedicated to his sport, we believe he could really put Devon on the map”.

With three children, two of which help run the studio, the owners explain “it’s essential we encourage local young people to follow their dreams, and if local businesses can make even a small difference, then that’s amazing, and I hope my kids get the same chance when they need it.”

Alive Studios will be helping to make short films to promote up-and-coming boxer Zane Turner, and hopefully gain him a strong following of fans in and around Devon who can enjoy his rise to fame and glory as an international boxing champion….

You can help too by sharing this video and liking this page!

Zane Turner History:
Zane has been a boxing fanatic since being introduced to the sport at 9 years old, invited by a close childhood friend to attend a session in a local gym. Starting the gym to improve fitness and lose body weight, but after a night of sparring he had a new goal, to work and build himself into a competing state. At age 18 Zane moved to a new club – Warriors Gym in Torquay – to improve ability and compete at a more senior level, finally turning Pro in June 2017.

Previous achievements as junior/senior:
2010 Western counties champion, Quarter finalist of junior nationals
2011 Western counties champion
2012 2010 Western counties champion, Quarter finalist of junior nationals and Torbay sportsman of the year
2013/14 Western counties champion, Southern champion, Inspirational sportsman of the year in Torbay, Ship Cornish award for Western region of the UK and ABA national runner up/finalist
2015 Regional Light heavyweight belt champion
2017 National Cruiser-weight Belt challenger

Additional achievements with clubs:
3 x Best all round boxer
4 x Sportsman of the year
5x Best Junior boxer
3x Best Senior boxer
Furthest in Junior ABA Championship
Runner up for nationals
Edward Narocott plate
England Boxing Squad

How can you help?
Let’s get behind Zane and spread the word about this amazing athlete. Please like this page, watch and like the video on YouTube, and follow Zane and Alive Studios on your chosen social media!

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New Feature! Add multiple users
To make your FREE Karishma Cloud account even better, we’ve introduced a new ‘Add User’ feature for all customers.
Now you can create users for your friends and family so they can enjoy your movies and photos without needing access to your main account.

Choose which movies you share
Simple privacy settings allow you to control which of your movies each user has access to, and decide who can contribute to the titles and descriptions for each film.
Don’t forget – all customers have a FREE Karishma Cloud account, so take advantage now!

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New version of Karishma Cloud for Android and IOS

A new version of Karishma Cloud is now available for Android phone, tablets and for IOS iPhone, iPad devices.

  1. Updated to our new phone number
  2. Turned off Memory vault by default.

Download for Android devices: 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.karishma.alivestudio&hl=en_GB

Download for iPhone/iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=703474190&mt=8

Memory Vault update

We have just updated the Memory Vault with a brand new responsive design, which means the Memory Vault now works not only on your computer, but on your phone and table too.

We’re also on our shiny new server, so films load ultra-quick now.

We have improved the search engine tool to make locating content even easier.

Finally, we’ve added a ‘related videos’ feature, so you can now choose to see other people’s videos which relate to yours. This is done by matching words in your title, so if you have film of London in 1963, you’ll get related videos of London, and also videos of 1963. You can turn this feature on and off in your settings.

What is the Memory Vault?
It’s a collection of old movie clips, kindly submitted by you – our loyal customers. This is a community site, run for free by Alive Studios to allow our customers to easily share historically interesting films from their home movie collections.

We hope to grow this into a huge database of old films, categorized by year, location and subject matter. Please add as much of your collection as you think people want to see. Simply log in to your private gallery on your Karishma Cloud account and get sharing… Enjoy!

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Alive Studios launch new website

We have just launched our brand new responsive website. know matter what device you are using you will now be able to enjoy using the Alive Studios web site. We have a new support area for our customers with lots of new videos to enjoy. We are also launching a new ordering system in mid February so look out for that.

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Streaming revenue outpaced discs sales for the first time in 2016

For the first time in the US, streaming revenue outpaced disc sales in 2016, according to trade organization Digital Entertainment Group. UHD Blu-ray stemmed the losses somewhat but disc sales are on the decline.
Streaming is now a bigger business

The total market for home entertainment in the US has been on the decline for over a decade as Hollywood continues to refuse to adjust its window business model that mandates that movies travel from cinema to disc to subscription. The music industry faced the same challenge – and years of declining sales – before it finally embraced streaming, which helped the music industry return to growth.

For the first time ever, streaming revenue eclipsed disc sales in 2016. For the full year, consumers in the US spent $10.3 billion on streaming ($6.2b on subscription streaming + $4.1b on electronic sales and rentals). Streaming revenue was up 15% over 2015. Subscription services like Netflix grew the most. Pay-per-view services like iTunes also grew but not as fast as in recent years.

Sales of DVD and Blu-ray on the other hand were down almost 9.5% (over 2015) to $5.5b and physical rentals were down 17.8% (over 2015) to $2.5b. Total disc revenue in the US in 2016 was $8b.

So $10.3b for streaming versus $8.0b for discs in 2016, according to DEG. And that is not even the full story because Amazon Prime Video revenues are not included in the figures.

2016 represents a tipping point, especially when you consider that Hollywood introduced UHD Blu-ray. The format has helped stem the losses for disc sales but has done little to reverse the negative trend.

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Do You Have Cine Film Footage of Butlins?

Then We Want To Talk To You! Los Angeles based PalmDoorFilms have asked if any of our customers might be able to help them find some good Cine Film footage of Butlins Holiday Camps between 1950-1965.The film-makers are working on an independent documentary chronicling the rise, fall and resurrection of Joe Meek – the extraordinary record producer and songwriter from the South West of England.

The two filmmakers have already traveled across the UK and the US to interview over 70 friends, family members, colleagues, employees, enthusiasts, critics and biographers of Meek – and with the project almost complete are looking for some final archive film to illustrate life in England during the 19050s to mid-60s.

If you have good footage of Butlins during this period – especially Clacton or Skegness, do get in touch with Alive Studios, and if suitable we’ll put you in touch with the producers to see if your film is any use to the project.

Get in touch with Alive Studios here: Contact Us
You can read more about the documentary here: www.joemeekdoc.com

Many Thanks!
Jennie Flowers (Director)
Alive Studios, Devon

Joe Meek

Karishma Cloud arrives on Apple TV!

Hopefully you already know about the incredible Karishma Cloud APP which is free to all our customers. It’s an amazing cloud service for accessing all your home movies Anytime, Anywhere.

If you’ve not read about it yet, please click here to read.

On the back of the highly acclaimed Karishma Cloud service, Alive Studios have just launched the worlds first home movie streaming TV APP on Apple TV for accessing your treasured old home movies directly on your Television!

1. Go to the App store on your Apple TV.
2. Search “karishma cloud” and download the free APP.

Its as simple as that – it’s like Netflix, only this time, the star of every movie is YOU!

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