Redbox, RealDVD and Hollywood’s long stuggle with consumer demand, Part I

There’s something about the video rental market, to borrow a phrase from Barack Obama, that causes the studios to get all wee-weed up. Back in 1983, not long after the Hollywood studios began, ever-so tentatively, to release movies on the newly introduced half-inch videocassette for watching at home, they were horrified to discover that some enterprising video Read More …

DOJ urges court to pass on Cablevision case

Well I feel like an idiot (again). No sooner had The Media Wonk posted his idle speculation that prospective-Justice Sonia Sotomayor might provide a crucial vote for cert. in the Cablevision case than the Department of Justice submitted its long-awaited brief in the case strongly urging the Supreme Court to take a pass. While not the Read More …