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Taken literally, Chen appears to be arguing that OS providers should be prohibited from developing proprietary applications for their platforms, which is obviously untenable, both legally and practically. But he’s absolutely correct that a platform without Netflix and other highly popular services is at a competitive disadvantage to platforms that have them. Read More …
The Media Wonk spent last week in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show where, everybody said, 3DTV would be the big story. And sure enough, nearly everywhere you went on the show floor folks were sporting either polarized shades or the full Geordi La Forge wraparounds and squinting at the new 3D displays tucked Read More …
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 …
It’s long been clear that there were too many video stores in America for anyone’s good. In the go-go years of the early 1990s, national chains like Blockbuster, Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery were adding stores at a clip of nearly one a day, each. Regional chains and independent operators expanded as well, until there Read More …
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 …