Todd Chanko
Todd Chanko
challenge options receiving video
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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Here, you have a great example of two sister operations with mutual needs being satisfied by the other,
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It's cheaper for Hollywood to deliver videos digitally than ship DVDs.
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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.
beginning companies consumers content creatively current deal directly fact heads media sell
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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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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There's only so much programming that the U.S. public will pay for at any given point of time.
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It's pretty small compared to, say, DVD player penetration.
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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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The real issue here is whether or not there's going to be a paradigm shift or real channel shift (to video players).