OPINION: Ripe or rotten?
By Paul Sweeting -- Video Business, 1/18/2008
February, 15 2008
Direct-to-DVD titles don't all fit in one box
There currently seem to be two ways of looking at the direct-to-video business. From one—the &...
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February, 13 2008
The Water Horse and Walk Hard
So, given that I've been sick with the flu this week, here's a couple announcements I missed. Sony ...
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February, 13 2008
Life After People DVD
A&E;'s Life After People scored 5.4 million viewers when it aired on the History Channel in ...
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February, 12 2008
The Kite Runner DVD, HD DVD
Paramount is releasing The Kite Runner on March 25 (prebook today) on DVD ($29.99) and HD DVD ($39.9...
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To celebrate the Feb. 12 DVD release of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 40th Anniversary Edition, Sony held a film screening at the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on Feb. 11.
The stars of The Jane Austen Book Club greeted fans at Barnes & Noble at The Grove in Los Angeles on Feb. 5.
Warner Home Video launched a retail event to celebrate it's 85th anniversary with a party on the studio's lot on Feb. 5.
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JAN. 18 | It took investors a day to figure it out, but they got it about right in the end.
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
After pummeling shares of Blockbuster and Netflix on Tuesday following Steve Jobs’ announcement in his MacWorld keynote of the iTunes Movie Rental store and an update of Apple TV, investors reversed course on Wednesday, having apparently concluded that the Apple announcement did not mean the end of the DVD rental business as we know it after all.
Not because Jobs’ aim isn’t to suck the life out of the DVD business (the guy’s not big on physical media, as is obvious from the lack of an optical drive on the new Apple Air notebook). But because the studios aren’t yet ready to let him do it.
Again, not because they’re feeling particularly solicitous toward Blockbuster and Netflix. But because they’re extremely wary of giving Apple the same sort of leverage over their ancillary revenue as it has over the record companies’ digital revenue.
Read the full column at ContentAgenda.com.