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We are hearing an increasing number of reports of entertainment executives fighting to maintain DVD floorspace at retail. We suspect mass-merchant retailers (such as Wal-Mart) are concerned by the weakness that occurred in 1H 2007, the disappointing perfo
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Sonic Solutions announced the official launch of its Qflix system for adding a digital lock to burned DVDs. It’s partnering with Dell to push the technology, which several drive and device manufacturers already plan to use. A number of companies plan to
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Das deutsche Film-Infoportal Cinefacts hat mit SevenOne Intermedia, dem Multimedia-Unternehmen der ProSiebenSat.1-Gruppe und Anbieter von kabeleins.de, eine exklusive Kooperation vereinbart.
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This is a tough time for both Blockbuster and Netflix, by their own choice. Both are too busy hitting themselves in the head with hammers. As consumers, we should benefit while we can. As investors, you’d be better to stick with Netflix, which has the s
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Netflix subscribers can choose from a growing library of 2,000 titles that are available for instant watching. Among the most popular titles for instant watching are the American TV series "The Office" and the films "The Matrix," "The Prince and Me," "Su
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$23.0 billion on DVD purchases and rentals in 2006, compared to $9.5 billion in box office revenue and $982 million for Internet, cable, and satellite on-demand. The report was released in conjunction with EMA's Home Media Expo 2007, the annual convention
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Consumer spending on home video is nearly three times greater than that of theatrical box office. Consumer spending on home video in 2005 exceeded $24 billion. Sell-through accounted for over $16.4 billion. Rental generated
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U.S. spending on online DVD rental services is expected to increase by 68% between 2007 and 2011, to $3.2 billion, or about 37.5% of the total video rental market, according to a report from market research firm Adams Media Research.
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Category ‹ Any Category ‹ Unbox Video Movies Comedy (25) Drama (18) Gay & Lesbian (1) Action & Adventure (14) International (1) Animation (6) Art House (5) Documentary (9) Kids & Family (10) Classics (2)
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people trading huge amounts of DVDs, TV shows, warez and porn. Three terabytes of new content every single day, to be precise. Welcome to Usenet, the original piracy hotbed.
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The U.S. box office rebounded in 2006 with $9.49 billion, a 5.5%gain. Box Office has grown $3.6 billion
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Hier kannst du ... ... deine DVDs, Bücher, Spiele, Fotos, Hausaufgaben und was immer du sonst noch willst online stellen und deinen Freunden darauf Zugriff geben.
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After years of painful negotiations, tech companies will finally be able to offer the ability to burn DVDs of downloaded pics this year. Those discs could then be screened on any home DVD player."This is very important to us because there's already a huge
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the all-time total number of legal movie downloads in history is less than the first day's sales of the DVD of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. That really does suck, doesn't it? Here are the Top 10 reasons why the idea of digital downloads o
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IndiePix is a new e-shop and online service created for the broad independent film community at large. We are a group of home video experts, /information professionals, media arts specialists, and most importantly, committed supporters of independent film
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The Dallas, TX.-based movie rental chain said Thursday that it ended 2006 with about 2.2 million online rental subscribers, including 2 million paying subscribers.Shares of Blockbuster (nyse: BBI - news - people )
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Access control technologies such as DRM create "scarcity" where there is immeasurable abundance, that is, in a world of digital reproduction. The early years saw tech such as CSS tapped to prevent the copying of DVDs, but DRM has become much more than th
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The Netflix strategy is obvious: By offering streaming at no additional charge, the company hopes not only to compete with the iTunes, CinemaNow and MovieLinks of the world, but also hopes to eventually lower its postal fees. After all, there's only so ma
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But on Monday Verisign announced a deal with Adobe who’ll distribute their P2P infrastructure along with the next version of the Flash player. That’ll get it into tons of homes nearly overnight.
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Open Media Network lets you download, watch and listen to educational and public service programs. It’s smart Internet TV that lets you experience: DVD-quality videoThousands of programsWhen and where you want
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A hacker known as Muslix64 posted on the Internet details of how he unlocked the encryption, known as the Advanced Access Content System, which prevents high-definition discs from illegal copying by restricting which devices can play them.
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Hollywood studios have approved a new technology and licensing arrangement that should remove a major obstacle consumers now face with burning movies they buy digitally over the Internet onto a DVD that will play everywhere.
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Warner Bros. is set to introduce a high definition DVD disc that can hold films and TV shows in rival and incompatible formats, the latest sign that the yearlong format war is long from over.
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"While the studios need the VOD/rental industry to support failed movies, we do not believe a greater emphasis on VOD/rental (vs. retail) is the answer to the industry's problems heading into 2007," he wrote. The analyst is predicting good fourth-quarter
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to a single day to capitalize on the buzz: theatrical release, DVD release and VOD release all at once. Well, we’re getting closer. Comcast is running a trial that gives its subscribers in Philly and Denver the ability to pay $4 to watch a movie via VOD
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we think that the $40 million earmarked for 2007 could prove insufficient,” and that other costs could rise as postage rates increase and Netflix spends more on marketing, they said. Pitz estimates, for example, that it cost Amazon $42 million-$64 mill
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There seems to be some shock this morning at the fact consumers prefer renting DVDs or using pay-per-view over waiting hours to download and watch a movie that's frequently limited in quality. TechWeb argues people aren't downloading films because their e
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The DVD Wars is about driving closure to the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray format wars. Who will win? We don't know and we don't care, but we hope the information on this page - updated daily - will help you make a more informed buying decision.
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the DVD Forum gave formal approval to a new type of recordable disc that will accept movies encrypted with CSS, the same copy-protection system used on retail discs, for playback on set-top DVD players, reports Video Business. The step was considered cri
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Consumers don't like the idea of having to buy the same product two or three times. Today, when you purchase a DVD, you can play that in your living room, on your laptop while flying cross-country, or in your car's DVD player.
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Wal-Mart Stores on Tuesday announced the launch its own video downloads service beginning with an exclusive "Superman Returns" DVD bundle containing a video download option with purchase of the physical DVD.
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Universal Pictures Australia and ReelTime Media have launched the major movie download-to-own service that includes secure burn technology. It is also the first major movie download service in Australia and New Zealand, asserts an official release.
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The Web, they say, is leaving the era of search and entering one of discovery. What's the difference? Search is what you do when you're looking for something. Discovery is when something wonderful that you didn't know existed, or didn't know how to ask fo
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Brothers Bob and Harvey Weinstein are back in the video revenue-sharing game. The Weinstein Co. said Wednesday that it is giving Blockbuster exclusive video rental rights for three years to all of its theatrical and direct-to-video movies beginning Jan. 1
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While not one of the major US studios, the largest movie studio in India's Bollywood, Rajshri, has just broken the logjam by releasing their new blockbuster film, Vivah, online for rental and in theaters on the same day. Using Brightcove, they were able t
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Sony is making part of its content library available on Grouper, so that people can link to it, or embed it in their blogs or Web sites (as I've done here.) Every time a clip is played, there's an opportunity to purchase the movie on DVD.
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Net income was $12.8 million up 84 percent, from $6.9 million, the Los Gatos, C-based company said in a press release. Revenue soared 48 percent to $256 million. Excluding some costs, profit was $14.6 million, or 21 cents.
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Target told the studios it was looking for “a level playing field” and would consider pulling back on the DVD business if the studios don’t ensure it pricing that’s equitable with movie-download services.
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The film, “The Onyx Project,” is meant to be an experiment in nonlinear storytelling for the digital age. One idea behind the venture is that no two viewers may see the movie unfold in the same way, yet its basic facts, characters and message will per
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Netflix bedient sich des Crowdsourcings um seine Recommendation Engine zu verbessern. Die einfachen Verbesserungen wurden bereits gemacht, deshalb wird nun ein großer Datensatz angeboten und der Gewinner erhält $1 Mio.
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Jeder VOD Anbieter muss sich die Netfilx Eckdaten ansehen und sich daran messen lassen. Kataloggröße, Dauer, Qualität, Bestellinterface, und Preis. Meistens sind sie bei der Dauer schneller aber bei den anderen Größen liegen sie weit zurück.
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I paid $14.99 for a movie that is lower in quality than the DVD, lacks the special features, takes about an hour to download, and is basically unplayable on my television.
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Warner’s plan is to create a disc with a Blu-ray top layer that works like a two-way mirror. This should reflect just enough blue light for a Blu-ray player to read it okay. But it should also let enough light through for HD-DVD players to ignore the Bl
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Nearly half (47%) of respondents ages 12 to 17 say they would watch a movie on a PC, well above the interest in doing the same on a cellphone (11%) or video iPod and similar devices (18%). A similar share of those 21 to 24 said they would watch movies on
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Wal-Mart will niedere Preise für sich und hält zudem Studios davon ab mit Apple für deren Filmdownloadstore zu kooperieren. Steve Jobs verliert solangsam die Lust und macht druck. Wal-Mart will seinen eigene Filmdownloadservice pushen.
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fidelity/convenience ist ein Möglichkeit zukünftige Entwicklungen vorrauszusagen. Fidelity (Wiedergabequalität) und Convenience (Gemütlichkeit, Kosten usw) beeinflussen das Konsumentenverhalten enorm.
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Amazon wird Mircosofts DRM verwenden. Rentals 1 Device, Gekaufte auf bis zu 4 + brennen auf DVD. Nur in den USA: Die Terms of Use wurden für diese Details auseinander genommen.
