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BusinessWeek
October 8, 2009
Grover & Lowry |
Squeezing Every Dime from DVDs With consumers flocking to low-cost Netflix and Redbox, Hollywood wants a bigger share of the profits.   |
BusinessWeek
October 17, 2005
Edwards & Burrows |
Daggers Drawn Over DVDs How Sony gained an edge in its fierce battle with Microsoft over video formats. |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Ronald Grover |
What's Driving The Box Office Batty Hollywood is pushing movies to DVD and video faster -- and theaters are feeling squeezed. And with the price of cinema tickets skyrocketing, this gives movie fans new clout. Clearly, some big script changes are in store. |
BusinessWeek
August 16, 2004
Ronald Grover |
A War That Hollywood Can't Afford As DVD sales slow, any delay of next-generation must-haves will cost the studios. What should Hollywood do about the battle between Sony and Toshiba over high-definition DVD formats? |
InternetNews
January 14, 2008 |
Toshiba Cuts HD Player Prices in Blu-ray Fight Toshiba is slashing prices of its HD DVD format players by between 40 to 50 percent as major Hollywood studios move to embrace Sony Corp's Blu-ray format high definition DVDs. |
InternetNews
January 4, 2008 |
Game Over? Warner Bros To Back Blu-ray Exclusively The latest development in the DVD format war is a big win for Blu-ray over rival HD DVD technology. |
InternetNews
June 19, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Blockbuster Picks Blu-Ray Over HD DVD Finally, someone picks a side in the format war. Can HD DVD recover? |
InternetNews
February 11, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
Double Dose Of Bad News For HD DVD Best Buy and Netflix have turned their back on HD DVD. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Nixing Netflix Would Be a Huge Mistake Time Warner wants to delay releases to Netflix or charge more. Either way, Time Warner loses. |
InternetNews
January 7, 2008 |
Toshiba: HD DVD is no Loser to Blu-ray Toshiba Corp said on Sunday its HD DVD high-definition video format is not dead despite being dealt a big setback by Warner Bros studio's decision to exclusively back Sony Corp's rival Blu-ray technology. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Hybrids Are Where It's At In the battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, increasing moves towards hybrid technologies should help consumers become adopters. |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2011
Patrick Martin |
Hollywood Still Doesn't Get It UltraViolet falls just short of bringing movie studios into the cloud era. |
BusinessWeek
September 13, 2004
Ronald Grover |
Gates Tries For A Hollywood Ending Tinseltown execs may still love a tale of redemption. But it may take more than a new script for Microsoft to remake itself from villain to hero when it comes to digital rights management software and the media industry. |
BusinessWeek
July 12, 2004
Grover & Lowry |
Imagine Sony On Steroids Howard Stringer, Sony's vice-chairman, is shopping for movies and music. But will content sell gizmos? |
InternetNews
April 4, 2006
David Miller |
Movie Studios Offer Downloadable Films Now playing on a PC near you: downloadable movies available for purchase on the same day they're released on DVD. But the price - up to double the cost of DVDs - may be too steep for consumers. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2011
Anders Bylund |
Has Hollywood Seen the Digital Light? A consortium of big-name movie studios has come up with a bold, new digital distribution plan for new movies. |
Home Theater
October 29, 2008 |
The VCR Is Dead The VCR quietly passed away this month as JVC stopped making standalone VHS decks. |
BusinessWeek
March 25, 2010
Ronald Grover |
The Last Picture Show at Blockbuster? With time running out for the video-rental empire, CEO Jim Keyes desperately needs Hollywood to help him remake the company so it can avoid Chapter 11 |
InternetNews
February 19, 2008 |
Toshiba to Quit HD DVDs, Ends Format War Toshiba surrendered in the high-definition home movie war on Tuesday, giving up on its HD DVD format. |
Home Theater
April 12, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Blockbuster Gets Fox, Sony Exclusives As with Warner Bros., their discs will rent 28 days sooner. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Grover & Green |
Hollywood Heist Will tinseltown let techies steal the show? The ripping and burning of movies to DVDs is growing into a global underground industry that last year cost film studios an estimated $3 billion in lost DVD sales. It's prodding the guys in Guccis into action. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2008
Anders Bylund |
How Apple's Movie Move Helps Netflix The whole entertainment business is about to turn on its ear. Read on to see why Apple and Netflix will be the likely rulers of the new world order. |
InternetNews
July 19, 2006
Clint Boulton |
CinemaNow: Download, Burn, Watch Online movie service provider CinemaNow became the first company to allow movies piped over the Internet to be securely burned onto a DVD. |
The Motley Fool
January 4, 2010
Jordan DiPietro |
An Upcoming Wave of Hits Trends in the box office point to more smash hits rather than more choices. |
Fast Company
December 2005
Alan Deutschman |
Building a Better Movie Business It's the iconic American industry. But audiences are vanishing, piracy is soaring, and new technology is treacherous. Can Tinseltown innovate its way out of trouble? |
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
Glenn Derene |
Movie Download Site Comparison: Test Drive The future of buying and renting movies is streaming now to a PC near you. But not all online flicks are equal. Here's what you get with your near-instant gratification. |
InternetNews
January 30, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
Toshiba Tosses 'Hail Mary' With Super Bowl Ad Toshiba might be wasting $2.7 million and 30 seconds of everyone's time Sunday afternoon. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Movie Download Dreams and Dilemmas Digital downloading of feature-length movies may be an idea whose time has come. While the party may have started, there's still a lot of work and planning left to do. |
PC Magazine
March 14, 2007
Muchmore & Kaplan |
Broadband Cinema Movie download sites eliminate the trips to the video store and the wait for Netflix mail. Is there a catch? |
Fast Company
May 2006
Scott Kirsner |
The Logic of Lock-In HD DVD and Blu-ray are set to battle for your bucks. It won't be pretty. |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
This Teacher Offers New Lessons A recent multiplex flick is hitting digital outlets before the DVD market. |
The Motley Fool
November 10, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Netflix Can't Be This Dumb When movies should come out on different platforms is becoming more convoluted and confusing, and Netflix appears open to bribes to play along. |
Home Theater
August 12, 2003 |
No Stopping DVD The DVD format continues to gain momentum. Earlier this year, DVD rentals exceeded VHS in units and dollar business for the first time, sure signs that videotape is headed for extinction. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Blockbuster Is it too late to get into the ring with Netflix? |
The Motley Fool
October 7, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
3 Reasons Why Comcast's $60 Movies Will Fail The cable giant is testing on-demand rentals of nearly first-run features. |
CRM
December 2011
Eric Barkin |
The Monday Morning Numbers on Movie Marketing How international growth, social media, and a decline in DVD sales are changing the film industry's marketing strategies. |
The Motley Fool
April 3, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Want Movie Downloads? Pay Up! Digital movie downloads? Good. Paying $30 a pop? Not so good. Given the fees and the limitations involved, it seems that this development mostly pays lip service to the nascent digital downloading industry. |
BusinessWeek
December 6, 2004
Larry Armstrong |
Recordable DVDs: Go Ahead, Toss Out Your VCR They've come way down in price -- and your old tapes will take up a fifth of the space they do now once you transfer them to disks |
Fast Company
December 2005
Scott Kirsner |
Maverick Mogul Broadcast.com founder Mark Cuban is questioning everything about the film business - and naturally ticking a lot of people off. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Disney's Download Deal CinemaNow and Disney team up to digitally distribute more movies. |
InternetNews
April 12, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Who Is Drawing Out The High-Def DVD Stalemate? The split in HD DVD format has irritated many of those involved and resulted in consumer confusion over both formats. |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Quick Take: HD-DVD, the Headless Chicken Blu-ray now commands about 70% of the high-definition DVD market, and it's only a matter of time before Viacom's Paramount and General Electric's NBC Universal leave the HD-DVD camp, too. |
InternetNews
December 27, 2007 |
Up Next For Apple's iTunes: Movie Rentals? Apple and Twentieth Century Fox are set to announce a deal that will allow consumers to rent Fox movies through Apple's digital iTunes Store. |
BusinessWeek
September 16, 2010 |
Cutting the Cord New devices are bringing movies and TV shows directly into the living room, without a cable subscription |
InternetNews
January 7, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
HD DVD Down, But Still Not Out The loss of Warner Bros. struck a blow for Blu-ray's supporters, but analysts say the high-definition format battle is far from over. |
Home Theater
March 5, 2008
Mark Fleischmann |
Toshiba Ponders Next Move How does Toshiba plan to move forward in the wake of HD DVD's demise? The company's CEO says improved DVD upconversion is among the strategies to be pursued. |
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2011
Michael White |
This Summer, Hollywood Could Use a Hero Hollywood will roll out big-budget movies almost weekly this summer in an effort to erase a $500 million box-office deficit so far in 2011. |
BusinessWeek
October 17, 2005
Larry Armstrong |
Definitive Answers On High-Def Even if you're ready for high-definition DVDs, the market isn't ready for you. That won't happen until next year, when the players and disks will go on sale. |
eCFO
April 2001
Russ Banham |
The Terrors of Tinseltown Peer-to-peer file-sharing, which enables users to swap digital content, could cut the major studios out of the distribution loop. Here's a look at the CFOs behind the Napsterization of Hollywood... |
The Motley Fool
October 10, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Not So Fast, Warner, HD Isn't Ready Yet Warner Home Video cut its high-def forecasts, but not far enough. It's VHS vs. Betamax all over again. That's hardly the stuff of sales-record legend. |
