p2pnet - rss feed: Bringing back the ‘WOW’
p2p news / p2pnet: "We need to be focussed on bringing the wow factor back to the experience. Movies are meant to be seen in the theatre."
That’s the view of Shari Redstone, president of National Amusements, speaking at the New York Bank of America Media, Telecommunications and Entertainment Conference.
Quoted by Reuters, she was addressing the subject of whether or not the period between a film’s cinematic and DVD releases should be shortened.
"Some studio executives, including Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger, have called for faster DVD releases to combat rising piracy over the Internet, amid slowing sales of DVDs and a U.S. box office slump," says the story.
But, "Shrinking windows is bad for business and I mean everybody’s business," said Redstone, whose private company runs 1,500 movie screens around the world, "some of which have been outfitted with express concessions, leather rocking chairs, live pre-show entertainment and other successful gimmicks".
Films usually reach the home video market about four months after release, but Iger has even suggested previously that the industry may need to release DVDs while films are still in theatres, says Reuters.
Also See:
Reuters - Movie theatre execs fight shrinking DVD window, March 29, 2006
March 30th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
At $18.50 for two tickets to the local theater, my wife and I have no problem waiting a couple of months to rent it and watch it on my own home theater setup. While the screen is alot smaller, we don’t have to put up with crying babies, ringing cell phones, and local advertisements.
Plus almost all of the theaters I’ve been to have contracts to sell Coca-Cola products only….I hate Coke. Even if I was willing to pay the excessive refreshment prices, I’d have to drink something I didn’t like……just another reason not to go to the theaters.