Hollywood ‘warming to the net’
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That’s p2pnet reader Andrew in an email from Oz.
He’s talking about a Reuters report which reckons the Hollywood studios are “warming” to the net.
heh. Took them long enough. 
The story has Stephen Prough who, “advises investors in the film business,” stating, “I don’t think that studios are looking at online to save the home entertainment business, but I think they want to avoid what happened to the music business and try to come up with alternative modes of distribution before physical media goes away.
Meanwhile, “Higher margins, the ability to collect and use information about customers, more revenue and greater willingness to share content with Internet operators is prompting Hollywood to join forces with the likes of Google’s YouTube or set up its own Internet portals,” says the story, continuing:
“Online video streaming and digital downloads should nearly triple to a $753 million North American market in 5 years, still a 5 percent sliver of DVD sales in 2008. But, analysts said, with disc sales dwindling and online viewing exploding, that gap will shrink.”
Enter advertising company Google’s YouTub and, “In any deal between Hollywood studios and YouTube, YouTube would likely charge consumers $3.99 per rental, in line with Internet rental outlets such as Apple Inc’s iTunes store and Amazon.com,” says Reuters, with PricewaterhouseCoopers’s Mike Kelley PricewaterhouseCooper’s observing, “It’s not just pulling them into the movie and streaming it, but forming a relationship that lasts a lot longer than that two-hour window.”
Customers who, “show a preference for science fiction become marketing targets for other sci-fi content”.
Targets, eh?
And, “Disney’s chief executive Bob Iger recently said he was ‘pretty bullish’ on direct Internet marketing to consumers.”
Meanwile, back at the ranch house …
Reuters – Hollywood warming to Internet as DVDs begin to fade, September 30, 2009
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October 1st, 2009 at 1:42 pm
their 20th thinking that people want to sit at a pc to watch a film or tv show is so backwards in so many ways, it’s hard to know where to start.
no one wants to sit at a pc anymore. we all want to take the film to the sofa and watch it on tv.
wi-fi streaming isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and a whole lot of people (including myself) won’t allow ourselves to be pushed in that direction.
i have 3 dvd players and a dvr connected to my tv. that’s all i want and need. my pc is where i download films and tv programs, and my living room sofa and tv is where i watch them. it’s simpler and easier to put the videos on a blank dvd and pop it into a dvd player – all of which are xvid/divx compatible. and btw, i have dvd players from panasonic, jvc, philips and sony. all of these companies sell handycams used for camming films…
it’s now very rare to find a dvd player that doesn’t play xvid and divx. i believe that this is standard in all new players at least in the past 7-8 years. all new portable video devices also have this as standard.
at least the manufacturers of the players know what the customers want. pity that hollydud still doesn’t get it.
October 1st, 2009 at 5:13 pm
“profit”, “investors”, “film business”, “margins”, “market”, my ass!
Even if I did not find “market share” and “business model”, what a useless article!
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/27344
What happened to the music industry on the road from the âBeatâ era to the âBitâ era?
There are many articles written on the topic. Most of them are absurd, referring to concepts like âbusiness modelâ, âmarket shareâ and other abstractions.
They remind me of a placebo â a dummy pill that was placed on patientâs table. The patient looks at the pill and tells himself that everything will be fine, everything goes as expected, everything will come back to normalâ¦
I would like to talk about abstractions of another level, the ones not directly related to the business itself, but are directly related to its death â Charisma, Illusions and Energyâ¦
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:47 am
Ahhhh Its a trap lol
I saw a motivational pic once which made fun of the Aussies MPAA/RIAA Style Anti-Piracy Ad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJuw8EA0cYQ) that plays before every movie in a cinema here in Melbourne (Well the cinemas Ive been too, and Yes I watch movies at the Cinema No
lol I have 3 movie tix in my wallet but I am pro-piracy movement
and btw, if your thinking it I am, not a hypocrite I am a university student, and we do have Social lives I just watch occasional movies at the cinema)
anyway in the poster they replaced ‘you wouldnt steal a car’ with ‘you wouldnt download a car’ (was the text in the pic and said FxxK you I would If I could)
First of all, that is impossible, I dont know how a Car can fit through a tiny modem :S lol and Limewire or uTorrent look nothing like a big blue download button lol
and I have a gem for fellow p2pnet readers this ad; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGCJ7qYI48E is a 90s anti-piracy video that are on multiple videos we bought during the 90s; I can just imagine someone with a video with the label ‘Pirate Video’ and a Pirate song starts playing (:
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:19 am
I have my PeeCee hooked up to my TV… it works brilliantly! I can get home from work, download a movie from usenet in around 20 mins whilst I have a shower.. Then I can sit and watch the movie whilst eating my tea.. All in glorious HD quality!
Seriously – if Hollywood had a system like the BBC iPlayer but with everything in HD – and where I could “rent” the latest films for maybe £1 then I would probably pay. Like the iPlayer, they could use P2P as an extremely cheap distribution model!
October 2nd, 2009 at 4:43 pm
“Then I can sit and watch the movie whilst eating my tea..”
Exactly what kind of TEA are you EATING?!?
October 2nd, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Lol – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_(meal) — See “Other uses”
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:44 pm
15,060 MILLION DOLLARS from DVD sales in 2008, and the industry needs ’saveing ‘??????? talk about absurd SPIN. Thanks to easily being able to finding media I enjoy with P2P, I’ve bought more DVD’s this year then any other, looks like I’m not alone…
Catflap- I used to do DVD’s like you do, found a better way though. Check out LinuxMCE, Mythtv, Ubuntu, Slackware. hmm- actually I think most any modern operating system will allow you to connect your system to your TV, and setting up a remote to work from your couch is pretty darn easy… I usually work at my desk- just to keep in the mental frame of ‘work’… but all my PC entertainment and recreation, I get from my couch. A bit of preparation and there’s no need to shuffle around physical disks anymore- unless of course you just like taking the time to back everything to dvd… If you think about it though, having a bunch of (presumably labeled) elicit dvd’s, lying around might not be the smartest idea- HD space is cheap these days… It’s wiser to double up your storage space for backup, and encrypt you data… Encryption passwords are generally considered to be protected by the 5th amendment here in the US, especially if the password itself constitutes an admission of a crime; Not so anymore in the UK, but there’s still ‘hidden’ plausible deniability encryption setups for UK users in need of assured privacy… In these days of DPI, unjust punitive draconian laws, and absurd civil suit damages being awarded, the bar on what’s legitimately ‘paranoid’ security measures has been moved significantly. Live or Virtual OS’s, Full disk Encryption and a solid VPN (from a company that won’t/can’t rat you out- you MUST read the fine print- I recommend TorrentFreedom or CryptoCloud) are just smart safety measures now- no tinfoil hat required…
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:23 pm
all of that is too difficult (and expensive for me), and i don’t want my pc connected to my tv. i can’t keep buying external drives – only when i absolutely need one. i have three already – although finding places to store my discs concerns me somewhat. but all that other stuff you suggest is too much for me to do and think about. i don’t trust wireless and i don’t want even more cables running from room to room. discs are more convenient for me.
i don’t actually make dvds, unless i’m copying one or downloading one.
i usually put 6 avi movies, or tv series avis on a blank.
i also can transfer avis to my archos 7 that i pop into the archos dvr station and connect to my tv.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:23 am
@Catflap
Get yourself a slimline PC (based on ATOM for example) to put under your TV. Use either Windows XP MCE (Get an MCE remote as well) or similar. Put a 1TB hard disk in it, and use something along the lines of the Homeplug networking kits that use your mains electric wiring as network cables (up to 85Mbps these days). If you do it right, you can have a slient PC that you can watch DVD’s on, listen to your music collection through (Mine is hooked up to a 5.1 surround system via fibre optic link), download and watch films, Timeshift TV watching (if you get a TV card) and even surf the internet from your armchair! If you have a HD TV, then you can even get better quality films than if they are on DVD! Similarly, many TV programs can now be downloaded in HD quality!
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:53 pm
what did i just say? i can’t afford all that unnecessary stuff. and i don’t want a computer connected to my tv. one pc is enough for me, and it’s not in my living room.
it’s nice for you that you allowed yourself to be brainwashed by the lamescream media into buying all that when it isn’t needed (imo): wi-fi, entertainment systems, and all that goes with it. i’m just fine with what i have.
i have a 52-inch Philips full HD LCD TV (paying in monthly installments). my surround sound Technics stereo (with sub-woofer) gives me excellent sound. all of my dvd players and dvd recorders have HDMI connections, and i have my cable box recorder. it’s not HD, but it’s still excellent. and there aren’t enough HD channels to warrant switching to an HD cable recorder.
and i can surf the internet on my tv through my archos 7.
so have fun with your stuff. i’ll have fun with mine.
thanks for the info anyway.
October 6th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
I have a modified Xbox (the original, not the 360). It streams movies from my PC to the TV via a network cable. It also plays my music and browses the internet. I’ve heard rumors that you might also be able to play some sort of video games on it…