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Fast Company
Nicole LaPorte |
"The Interview" Is A VOD Perception-Changer, Not A VOD Game-Changer Long regarded as a kind of consolation prize (or dumping ground) for troubled films, or else a platform for small, specialty films that might not resonate with all of America, Video-on-demand suddenly has a new, glitzy glamour.   |
Home Theater
May 20, 2010 |
FCC Unleashes Selectable Output Control The Federal Communications Commission has caved in to the movie industry's demand to disable the component video interface on high-def devices, but the studios can use this so-called selectable output control only under very specific circumstances, to protect fresh video on demand titles. |
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. |
Home Theater
May 20, 2008 |
HD VOD May Upstage Blu-ray Video on demand may deliver the high-def goods to homes before Blu-ray discs even make it into stores. |
Home Theater
September 29, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Studios Repeat HDTV-Crippling Demand The movie studios and their trade association are lobbying the Federal Communications Commission for power to cripple the component video interface - the only one available on millions of early-generation HDTVs. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2010
David Lee Smith |
Will Studios Nix Cable's Quick Trips for Flicks? Once again, operators want to shrink the time between movies' theatrical and home distribution. |
Home Theater
April 12, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Blockbuster Gets Fox, Sony Exclusives As with Warner Bros., their discs will rent 28 days sooner. |
InternetNews
January 6, 2006
Tim Gray |
Plenty of Competition for Video on Demand Analysts warn that continued success of video on demand is not a guarantee, especially as competition from a variety of entertainment sources comes into play. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
April 5, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
The Fight for Video on Demand Netflix sizes up a hot market that could pose a threat to it. |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2003
Lowry & Grover |
Cable Fights For Its Movie Rights Video-on-demand's reach is expanding, and the cable biz wants to show films sooner. |
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. |
PC World
May 2004
Dan Tynan |
Whose TV Is It, Anyway? Hollywood wants to control how you use digital TV. |
Home Toys
June 2002
Navin Sabharwal |
Video on Demand: Coming Soon to a Home Theater Near You Despite repeated false dawns it can now be confidently said that Video on Demand (VOD) is arriving and that over the next few years it will become a significant component of the service bundle that cable operators will offer. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Thinking Outside the Box Office When it comes to new releases and DVDs, Hollywood's future may be very different from its present. The point is that movie theaters don't have to die unless they want to. For investors, there may even be some attractive situations here. |
Fast Company
Evie Nagy |
Here's The Big Problem With Sony Releasing "The Interview" On Demand After a message from the hackers threatened violent attacks on movie theaters if the film was released, all the major theater chains pulled out of showing it. Many suggested that Sony should immediately release the movie on the Internet. |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2006
Steven Mallas |
Box-Office Blues Banished The summer should provide a lot of opportunity for the various motion picture studio operating segments to bring in the bucks. Investors, now's the time to shop. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2006
David Lee Smith |
Be Demanding of Your TV Much of the programming now available from the cable operators on video-on-demand is free to viewers. Video-on-demand is innovative, but what could it mean for your portfolio? |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2006
W.D. Crotty |
Will "Bubble" Bust Cinemas? A maverick filmmaker and a billionaire duo seek to shake up Hollywood by simultaneously releasing a new movie to DVD, cable TV and movie theaters. Is this the paradigm shift that kills the suffering movie theater industry? Investors, take note. |
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. |
Wired
April 2005
Xeni Jardin |
The Cuban Revolution The maverick billionaire blogger wants to take the film out of the film industry. And his all-digital vision is coming soon to a screen near you. |
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... |
AskMen.com
March 13, 2001
Peter Richmond |
Buying The Best Home Theater If you're going to buy a home theater system, do it right the first time. Is it really worth the expense and trouble of shopping around? Yes... |
InternetNews
September 14, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
How Much Hollywood For Comcast? Cable giant Comcast boosts video-on-demand offerings through a deal with Sony and considers a stake in MGM. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2004
Ben McClure |
Comcast Wins in Sony-MGM Deal Comcast shareholders should be thrilled with the Sony-MGM deal. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Thinking Outside of the Box Office Rising ticket prices are keeping theater owners happy, but the empty seats are troublesome. The studios don't have to sweat that out. |
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? |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2005 |
New Avenues for Netflix? Netflix CEO Reed Hastings sat down for a conversation to discuss the company's past, present, and future. This is the second of four parts. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2006
Russell Wintner |
Bits on the Big Screen Computer servers and digital projectors are about to replace the canisters of film and spinning sprockets of the world's movie theaters |
The Motley Fool
June 25, 2004
Daniel Hong |
Defying the Naysayers The on-line DVD rental company Netflix, though it's still up more than 200% in a year, is an investment gem simply because it's fallen from favor. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Tinseltown Cries Wolf Hollywood's quick trigger on the video-release front is no fix for the box-office slump. |
The Motley Fool
June 12, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Let's Get Going With VOD As to Warner's apparent efforts to feed VOD without starving DVD sales or undernourishing the Blockbusters of this world, it seems that there are too many masters being served here. |
The Motley Fool
March 8, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Lights, Camera, Stocks The big screen offers up big ideas for small investors: IMAX... Access Integrated Technologies... Amazon.com... Pixar... DreamWorks... |
CIO
September 15, 2001
Ben Worthen |
Odor Theaters New Delhi native Sandeep Jaidka has patented a system in which films can be encoded with digital signals that cause scents of waterfalls, gardens and kitchens, among other things, to be emitted in the theater... |
The Motley Fool
March 13, 2009
Anders Bylund |
A SeaChange in How We See TV A change is coming in the way we watch and interact with our TV programming. And when it does, SeaChange will become huge. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2008
Anders Bylund |
The Entertainment Industry in 2015 Gaze into an unshackled, content-happy, entertainment-filled future as we take a look at what entertainment may be like in 2015. |
Fast Company
September 2005
Chuck Salter |
The Lost Picture Show It's all in the presentation. With crying babies, bad screens and rude chatter at the theater, maybe Hollywood alone cannot be blamed for the box office slump. |
InternetNews
October 25, 2005
Tim Gray |
Time Warner, NBC Renew VoD Pact Video on demand continues to play an important role in cable services. |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Last Picture Show The big screen is feeling pretty small these days. If you want to live, multiplex, diversify. |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Fool on the Street: Comcast on Demand At the Merrill Lynch Media & Entertainment conference a couple of weeks ago, executives from Comcast spoke to a gathering of analysts on its future plans for "triple play" success. Here's the inside scoop on what these analysts know that individual investors don't. |
The Motley Fool
October 21, 2004
Lawrence Meyers |
Libraries Aren't Boring to Sony Sony's purchase of MGM positions it for the future of home entertainment delivery, with the ability to generate some pretty healthy cash flow to boot. |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2005
Shannon Zimmerman |
That's Not Entertainment! Can an AMC/Loews consolidation help the ailing theater biz? |
Home Theater
September 17, 2008 |
Sony and Amazon Coordinate VOD Sony and Amazon are joining forces in a joint video-on-demand effort. |
AskMen.com
May 30, 2002
Christian Lander |
How To: Set Up A Home Theater System There's almost nothing stopping you from quickly and easily setting up a home theater system for a reasonable price... |
Home Toys
October 2004
Matthew Coppedge |
Home Theater Media Centers In a few years, the percentage of households that have a Home Theater Media System will have increased exponentially when the advantages they provide are realized. |
The Motley Fool
March 14, 2008
Anders Bylund |
DIRECTV Plays Defense on Demand Falling behind in the TV service arms race could be fatal, so DIRECTV is learning new tricks. |
The Motley Fool
May 10, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Cisco on Demand The networking giant knows all about video on demand, and it's well positioned to capitalize on the coming revolution. It may turn out that buying Scientific-Atlanta was the best $7 billion Cisco ever spent. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
May 14, 2007
Jeremy MacNealy |
Fool on Call: Disney's Magical Distribution Model From DVDs to iTunes, the media and entertainment group drives growth from multiple platforms. Investors, take note. |
Inc.
May 15, 2000
Ben Cameron |
Stage Might We asked Ben Cameron, executive director of Theatre Communications Group, about people's changing relationship to live theater in an age of digital entertainment. |
