TV Decoder is a guide to television -- what's on, who's watching and why it matters. Brian Stelter covers the day's on-screen and behind-the-scenes developments, with insights into Nielsen ratings and the machinations of the TV industry.
Amel and others told us that the report was actually a downgrade on their forecast from last year. Whereas at the time they saw digital movie sales bringing in $2.5 billion to $3 billion by 2010 (unfortunately they could not produce a digital copy of last
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
User Generated Content is here to stay. Report from Bear Stearns assessing the effects of the Long Tail on Entertainment Industry, especially on television. Between content producers and traditional broadcasters the new subject is the aggregator/packager
), box office revenues could theoretically be 60-70% larger than they are today. In practice, there are other economic barriers to giving all 13,000 films their day on the screen, such as the cost of marketing, the theaters and the screens themselves. Bu
Go to Google and Yahoo and make them bid against each other to provide a Panama/AdSense like system that sells advertising on the Search engine and all the music sites owned by the participating labels, but ALSO calculates the optimal price for the DRM
