Media +Technology Intelligence
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 …
Pity Judge Denny Chin, the federal district court jurist in New York presiding over the Google Book Search case (The Authors Guild, et. al. v. Google, Inc.). Having steered the long, complex class action to within sight of the finish line he suddenly finds himself the object of an intense last-minute lobbying campaign from interests that Read More …
Sony formally unveiled two new e-book readers today, slightly ahead of schedule because details of the announcement began to leak on the web. The big news: one of the two models is priced at $199, a hundred bucks cheaper than the least-expensive Kindle (the fancier Sony device goes for $299). Clearly, Sony’s strategy is to position Read More …
The Digital Entertainment Group takes the Sarah Palin Rouge-Lipped Hockey Mom Prize this week for slathering lipstick on the runtish snout of the home video market. The industry spinmeisters reported that total consumer home entertainment spending for the first half of 2009 was down a mere 3.9% compared to last year. Not bad, you say, Read More …
Zucker acknowledges something that has been too slow in dawning on media executives generally: scale–and the economies that go with it–is a thing of the past. Read More …