23 ordspråk av Todd Chanko
Todd Chanko
At this point in time, I see direct-to-consumer digital downloads of DVD titles as being a nice, incremental market for studios. It will not be a wholesale substitution of the retail channel.
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But the idea is sound: leveraging the power of broadband to showcase what it does best -- video,
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But the idea is sound: leveraging the power of broadband to showcase what it does best -- video.
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He didn't feel it was ready.
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Here, you have a great example of two sister operations with mutual needs being satisfied by the other,
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I think they've set the whole D.R.M. thing back at least a year or two.
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It's a no-lose proposition.
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It's cheaper for Hollywood to deliver videos digitally than ship DVDs.
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It's pretty small compared to, say, DVD player penetration.
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Microsoft was already far behind regardless of whether this deal would have been sealed or not.
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Overall, it's important to stress on the revenue side that sales are up. It's not about Amazon not being able to increase its top line growth.
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That is not insignificant. But it isn't enough to dislodge traditional video services such as home video rentals, box office and traditional TV watching, because you only have 25 percent of the American TV households capable of doing it.
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The big challenge they face, which would be the same for any video distribution channel, is that there's more and more options for receiving video in the home.
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The big deal is the fact that the heads of the media companies ... are beginning to think creatively about how can we sell our content directly to consumers but without antagonizing our current distribution arrangement.
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The big deal is the fact that the heads of the media companies … are beginning to think creatively about how can we sell our content directly to consumers but without antagonizing our current distribution arrangement.
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