Josh Bernoff
Josh Bernoff
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Consumers have spoken -- they are tired of paying the high cost of CDs and DVDs and prefer more flexible forms of on-demand media delivery.
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How long he takes and how good a job he does determines the profitability of his company. I have three years of graduate study in mathematics at MIT, and I couldn't do that job.
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Stores will close. It's already happening. Being a music store by itself is a declining business.
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On-demand services are the future of entertainment delivery. CDs, DVDs, and any other forms of physical media will become obsolete.
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On-demand services are the future of entertainment delivery, ... CDs, DVDs, and any other forms of physical media will become obsolete.
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It's like trying to fight a swarm of bees with a sword and a shield. It's not going to have a huge impact.
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Consumers have been incredibly resistant to adding one more set-top box to their TV set up. You have to do something really compelling.
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It's still enabling technology that must be built into set-top boxes or consumer electronics devices.
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I think they may just be trying to ratchet the expectations down.
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It is a classic chicken-and-egg thing. If they get the content, people will come and use it. And if people come and use it, then folks will want to make their content available on the system.
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The right price has nothing to do with greed. It has to do with demand.
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The future of media is in these niche markets. And as niches go, this one -- women -- is pretty big. NBC doesn't have any properties currently that address this group.
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Even if somehow the company captured 10 percent of the market this year -- which would be an enormous feat -- it would still only be a $30 million business. The company will sell over $1 billion in CDs this year in its stores. Why is it doing this? It doesn't make sense.
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With major networks' video locked away in their own sites, portals must romance other video sources, including less aggressive cable networks.