Variety's Home Entertainment Quarterly
Variety's quarterly report on home entertainment has a bunch of neat-o tech stories, including lots on Blu-ray versus HD DVD, a piece about VOD and digital downloads, and hacking copy protection.
I've got two pieces in the section: one is a look back at the ten years that the DVD format has been with us, headlined, 'How DVDs became a success,' and the other is a look at whether we could've avoided the Blu-ray/HD DVD stand-off.
My favorite quotes from that first piece are toward the end:
I've got two pieces in the section: one is a look back at the ten years that the DVD format has been with us, headlined, 'How DVDs became a success,' and the other is a look at whether we could've avoided the Blu-ray/HD DVD stand-off.
My favorite quotes from that first piece are toward the end:
Many homevid vets don't believe that discs -- whether standard or high-definition -- will be replaced by digital delivery anytime soon.
"I'd be surprised if, four years from now, downloading of movies by consumers represents more than 7% of the total consumer spending on home entertainment," says Bo Andersen, president of the Entertainment Merchants Assn.
Lieberfarb agrees that discs won't be let go of easily: "There is a reluctance to experiment with transformative models, for fear that it'll cannibalize revenues in the short run."
Labels: Blu-ray, digital downloads, DVD, HD DVD
posted by Scott Kirsner at
4:57 PM
3 Comments:
I really enjoyed your article on the history of DVD. With everybody buzzing about digital delivery, it's hard to realize how much of an impact that DVD technology has had on the industry. My favorite quote was "Of course, no good format gets launched in the homevid biz without a format war." That line pretty much sums everything up for me.
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Davis Freeberg, at 5:37 PM
I really enjoyed the article too! That is a good point about how digital delivery isn't a major force yet. I have pretty fast internet and I could run to blockbuster faster than downloading a movie. Plus, now that Wal-Mart is apparently building HD-DVD players on the cheap the HD-DVD will be more reachable...
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Carolina Flicks, at 7:59 PM
The point surely is that at some point..delivery won't be physical.
The question for the homevid industry is how much time...how long a life will discs of whatever format have?
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Tommy Weir, at 2:53 AM
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