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The powers that be in Hollywood seem finally to be grokking the fact that the decline in DVD and Blu-ray sales is irreversible and requires a fundamental re-balancing of the risks… Read more »
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The powers that be in Hollywood seem finally to be grokking the fact that the decline in DVD and Blu-ray sales is irreversible and requires a fundamental re-balancing of the risks… Read more »
Twentieth Century-Fox is sure kicking out the stops for the launch of Digital HD (DHD), its new early-release electronic sell-through initiative. The first DHD title, Ridley Scott’s sci-fi thriller “Prometheus,” is… Read more »
Though sales of new games through brick-and-mortar retail channels are falling rapidly, game publishers, including the major console makers, have an incentive to prop them up as long as possible. No… Read more »
New social tools and sites are facilitating a democratization of discovery, where one-to- many recommendations are no longer the exclusive domain of professional media and traditional tastemakers. Read more »
While its longtime DVD-rental rival, Netflix has signaled its eventual retreat from the disc business, kiosk operator Redbox seems more than happy to take on any physical-media customers Netflix wants to… Read more »
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has been banging the drum on Facebook and in Washington, DC, over ISPs’ use of bandwidth caps, and according to my sources was at least partly responsible… Read more »
The reviews are starting to roll in for Walmart’s in-store disc-to-digital conversion service and the consensus is…not terrible. BTIG Research analyst Rich Greenfield took some discs down to his local Walmart… Read more »
The first quarter of 2012 featured several high-profile legal and regulatory battles over privacy, antitrust and copyright that could eventually reshape digital markets, including the pay-TV business and online advertising. It… Read more »
Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn abruptly resigned on Tuesday as the once-dominant electronics retailer struggles to cope with onslaught of digital competition from Amazon and other e-commerce sites. The company said… Read more »
If you spend a lot of time writing in the margins of reports, editing presentations, or filling out endless forms, there’s something you should know: You should be using a tablet… Read more »