Media +Technology Intelligence
I have covered the home video industry for as long as it’s been an industry. And it never ceases to amaze me the lengths to which the Hollywood studios will go to try to deny the reality of consumer demand. The latest case in point: their scheme to stop the shift in consumer spending from DVD Read More …
The Twitter- and blogosphere got a case of the vapors yesterday over a report that News Corp. plans to throw up a pay wall around Hulu. Speaking at an industry event, newly installed News. Corp. president Chase Carey said, “I think a free model is a very difficult way to capture the value of our content. Read More …
One of the more interesting subtexts to the battle between Disney and Sony Pictures over the work of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem consortium (DECE) is the degree to which the studios have come to resemble each other. Sony Pictures has long been a captive of Sony Electronics. Decisions on what technologies or which formats Read More …
Fascinating story in the Wall Street Journal this morning about a new digital delivery system for movies being pushed by Disney. Fascinating not just for the ostensible news it contained — Disney hopes to replace lost DVD revenue with a new system for letting consumers access movies across multiple digital platforms called Keychest –as for the timing Read More …
On Thursday, Google announced during the Frankfurt Book Fair that its long-planned e-commerce platform for digital books will launch by June 2010. Christened Google Editions, represents a major departure from most current e-book offerings in that it won’t be confined to any particular reading device or desktop viewing application. Instead, Google will cache users’ purchases Read More …