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No one has all the elements in place yet: big audience, vast selection, intuitive design, and a simple way to transfer movies onto portable devices and the living room television.But here’s my ranking of the five players that are “most likely to succe
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The paid video download market is a dead end according to a new report by Forrester Research. Forrester estimates that paid video downloads will peak in 2007, generating $279 million in revenue, up from $98 million last year. Instead, advertising models w
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The arrangement starts today; more than 150 titles, including Dirty Dancing, will go up this month. That brings iTunes’ movie library past 400—still a far cry from the numbers available on some other sites, including newly launched Wal-Mart download b
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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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But in the film world, Wal-Mart is the only retailer to offer pics from every major studio for sale, though it is missing many indies. And its library is a relatively paltry 3,000 movies and TV shows.In addition, there still isn't a reliable way for consu
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Vongo offers unlimited movie downloads to your PC for $9.99 a month (USA only) and you can then easily stream these movies from your PC to your Xbox 360. Vongo make it sound pretty easy: "The Xbox 360 will automatically check to see which Windows XP or
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Revenue from legitimate online TV and film downloads worldwide will rise tenfold to $6.3 billion by 2012. The U.S. will account for 65% of this amount, according to a report published by Informa. Stateside sum will rise from $538 million in 2006 to $3.9 b
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Netflix is allowing customers to order movies and stream them on their PCs. Customers will not own the films and will not be able to burn them to a disc or view them on other devices.The digital-delivery service won't cost anything for subs, who will be a
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Viacom will be brave enough to join Disney on the iTunes store, selling movies from its studio Paramount. But in an effort to not ruffle Wal-Mart and Target’s feathers, the deal will only cover Paramount’s back catalog, including titles such as “For
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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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The relative success of video downloads on Microsoft's Xbox Live and disappointment of Amazon.com's Unbox point to two factors that differentiate Xbox from Amazon and its many other competitors -- consumers who download a movie want a simple way to watch
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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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Among the free video downloads from file-sharing networks recorded in the third quarter, nearly 60% was adult-film content, 20% was TV show content and 5% was mainstream movie content, NPD said.
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while video download sales made through Apple's iTunes store and other sources will total just $298 million this year, by the end of 2007 the market will grow to $1.5 billion. By 2010, global revenue from online video sales, rentals and subscriptions will
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To launch such a kludgy movie site in 2006-2007 is almost unpardonable. Yes, true to what I expected, Clickstar, the online movie service backed by Morgan Freeman and hype, launched this weekend, and it takes only a few minutes of playing with the site to
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Aggregator has devised the UK’s first universally-available, high quality video-on-demand service containing a broad and deep range of content which complements free-to-air broadcast digital TV. Aggregator sources, packages and delivers television progr
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Meanwhile my day job project with Aggregator is taking pre-beta registrations for MoeTV - The best of Russian TV, online, their first 'niche content' subscription TV download site while internally they are hurtling towards a good looking beta of their s
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eMarketer estimates that by 2010 there will be 157 million online video users in the US, up from approximately 108 million in 2006.
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ClickStar is essentially going to try to thread the needle by offering high quality, and often difficult to find content while also removing some of the impediments to an easy rental. Consumers will download movies from ClickStar for rent or purchase on t
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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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bundle containing a video download option with purchase of the physical DVD: With the purchase of the physical DVD, the users can also choose from three download options—$1.97 for portable devices, $2.97 for PCs/laptops, and $3.97 for both portable play
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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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As you know, we have been experiencing technical difficulties associated with the extremely high number of downloads from the Video Marketplace service over the past 24 hours. We understand these technical issues have resulted in a very unpleasant experie
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Guba has built a successful platform to download full-length films, as noted in our first post with Bart Myers. The company enjoys the cooperation of major film studios. And, it appears to have figured out digital rights management issues.
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FIM is going to offer movies and TV shows via its Direct2Drive website. Up until now, the site had been offering downloads of videogames. FIM is selling flicks from its various Fox-owned production companies. Movies will start at $7.99, TV shows at $1.99.
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The BBC iPlayer is clearly designed to compete with iTunes and is, in plain terms, a new platform. It is essential that all broadcasters and content providers are given access on a fair and equitable basis to present their content on the iPlayer."
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Nearly 500,000 movies have been sold since Disney became the first movie provider on iTunes. (Iger said earlier that more than 125,000 were sold in the first few days.) About 12 million ABC shows have been sold on iTunes since the launch in October 2005 o
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It's not online yet, but the key stat, from PricewaterhouseCoopers, is that the firm expects just $1 million in movie downloads to be sold in 2006. The number will grow to $400 million by 2010.
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Jetzt wirds interessant: "Microsoft said tonight that it would offer movies and episodes of television shows for download through its Xbox Live online service in the United States, beginning Nov. 22." Die letzen Meter zu TV sind kein Problem für MS!
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As of this writing, ThePirateBay is host to over 400,000 torrents and serves more than 5 million peers. Additionally, ThePirateBay crew reports their tracker has grown substantially over the last several months.
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GridNetworks has a few customers using its distributed network, a command-and-control form of P2P that clusters all the bits well enough to do streaming. The company says it can deliver a 1.2GB movie at a cost of 25 to 50 cents, and it will handle packagi
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Sony Pictures Television has extended its partnership with Arts Alliance Media to launch a download-to-own deal for 40 movies through LOVEFiLM and AOL in the UK this week. This follows the download-to-rent deal between Sony and AAM earlier this year
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In a poll late last year, 13% of Internet users currently downloading movies using peer-to-peer services said they would pay $20 per film to do it legally; 18% of those downloading TV shows would pay $5. At lower prices the numbers are even larger: 38% of
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On the PC side, the files are going to be encoded in mp4/m4p and Flash format, which means you can either stream your "paid for" movies directly from either a browser or a third party app, or download the mp4/m4p to watch on your computer
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Cable giant Comcast will be launching its PC and TV download store by the end of this month. Users will be able to pay once and then download or stream the TV shows or music on the TV or on the PC
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The deal is only with Universal Pictures, and is an expansion of its previous library-titles-only deal. “The Fast and the Furious: The day-and-date digital version will include the DVD menu and bonus features in the $9.99 price point.
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The Walt Disney Co. has sold 125,000 digital copies of films through Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes store in less than a week, generating $1 million, Disney expects revenue of $50 million in the first year from its iTunes partnership
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Das Geschäft mit den Film-Downloads im Internet blüht: In Westeuropa sind die Umsätze von 10 Mio Euro in 2005 auf 690 Mio Euro in 2010 gesteigen. Deutschen 2010 rund 87 Mio Euro für das Downloaden und Streamen von Filmen ausgeben.
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But my urging has been based on the idea that consumers would likely be willing to view advertising in exchange for discounted or free content. It seems such fertile ground. I'm surprised there haven't been more tests on the model.
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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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Restrictions on use should drive a cheaper price to the consumer, not the same or higher pricing. Die Downloadangebote haben kein vertrauen in ihre Portale und garantieren den Rechteinhabern keine Abnahme.
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Marketer estimates that video-related advertising will top $2.3 billion within four years.
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The studios continue to show an amazing proficiency for finding reasons not to sell or rent digital downloads in ways that customers might value, all for the sake of protecting their existing retail channels.
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make us believe that movie studios do not want legal movie downloading to be terribly successful in the near-intermediate term,” he writes.
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More than 45 million TV shows have been downloaded on iTunes since the launch last October
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Prinzipiell keine Konkurrenz für Cabel Unternehmen. Aber das Interface ist wichtig und die Integration. Verlieren werden die Retailer. TV Shows werden über den Store gut laufen. Bandbreite ist zu gering.
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Preis, Kompatibilität, Downloadzeit und Größe, kein Disney, externer Player, kein DVD-Player support, eingeschränkte Abspielzeit.
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Restrictions on use should drive a cheaper price to the consumer, not the same or higher pricing, especially because the studios’ cost to produce and distribute is lower in an online world.
