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FT.com / Comment / Analysis - Entertainment: A pointer to profits - 0 views

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  • cash-strapped young are leading those shunning cable subscription
  • sector lost more than 700,000 subscribers in the US in the second quarter of the year
  • partly because of competition from satellite operators and telecommunications
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  • But new streaming or “over the top” services such as Hulu were also a factor,
  • For Netflix, the pay-TV industry is as ripe for revolution as the DVD rental market was a decade ago
  • etflix’s DVD service has amassed 15m subscribers in the past 10 ye
  • 60 per cent have already tried the service
  • Canada in the next few months and, next year, in the UK, a
  • ernet “thrives on inefficiency”
  • cable TV, “the inefficiency is in the cost
  • 4bn at its peak in the US in 2004 to $10.87bn in 2009
  • sing the money saved on postage as customers shift from its DVD subscription service to streaming.
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    "There's definitely some substitution taking place
Alex Street

DVD Intelligence - FEATURE: Physical media are hanging on for dear life - 0 views

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  • Amazon.com’s deep discounting
  • deluxe art book containing more than 50 pages of art,
  • Amoeba arose out of that community of music lovers that wanted a better place for music than a corporate chain store
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  • one with the widest possible selection, better service, and more respect for people’s ideas and lives.”
  • Amoeba Musi
  • huge chain stores were mercilessly swallowing up independent store
  • depriving communities across the country of a personal relationship with their musi
  • HMV chief executive Simon Fox reported that CDs currently account for about a quarter of HMV’s business
  • If HMV merely maintains its share of the shrinking CD pie over the next three years, the company projects its annual revenues from CDs to fall to £120 million
  • the entire CD market in the UK would be worth just £300 million in three years’ time
  • £145m of turnover that has to be replaced by “digital entertainment devices”.
  • 1 million subscribers in Europe already pay the monthly premium subscription fee, while more than 10 million users go the free route.
  • Billboard reported that Spotify in just three weeks amassed at least 1 million total US users, and 70,000 paid subscribers in the first week
  • Spotify’s partnership with Facebook
  • ny labels or musicians who want to make money from CDs better wow buyers with unforgettable packaging
  • consumers have demonstrated that they’re willing to sacrifice sound quality for convenience and portability.
  • enough audiophiles – and videophiles for that matter – to sustain an entertainment ecosystem to cater to their needs?
  • Not having actual possession of a digital file is the premise of ‘cloud’-based computing, a
  • The Death of Bunny Munro, w
  • transmedia storytelling’ is a technique of telling stories
  • mass media to develop media franchises
  • type of thing that CD-ROM started doing in the 1990s
Alex Street

Harry Potter and The King's Speech fail to halt DVD sales slide | Media | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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  • VA said that there are now 44 legal services in the UK o
  • Physical discs accounted for 96.5% of all sales in 2010.
  • ces such as tablets rose 18% year
Alex Street

PS3 HDMI resolution and refresh rate | AVForums.com - UK Online - 0 views

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    he only time it will switch to 50Hz is when playing upscaled SD DVD (Blu-ray is at either 60Hz (59.94 to be precise) or 1080p24 (23.976Hz)) or if you set the XMB to 576p.
Alex Street

FT.com / Media - Digital film is the future, the issue is timing - 0 views

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  • Lovefilm, which claims to handle half of the UK’s DVD rentals, is hedging its bets on the digital future.
  • Lovefilm can afford to be agnostic about online and offline customers because both pay a regular subscription,
  • All those top-tier new release movie rights are universally held by Sk
Alex Street

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  • a hashtag t
  • TV talent shows and sporting events alike, the ‘Twitter backchannel’ has become an important part of the experience.
  • TV could be a place to share the latest news from far-away friends and relatives.
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  • DVD extras’ for every show
  • n IMDB app will know exactly what you’re watching so
  • at Shazam could analyse it,
  • Turn the current show into a cartoon” filters,
  • Family Guy’ soundboard to play with during the news  -
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