It’s been a tough couple of years for the home entertainment industry. Spending by consumers has dropped significantly since 2009 and there’s been more than a little hand wringing about the future of the business. Yet, as 2013 draws to a close, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. As TheWrap …
Good News for Home Entertainment as 2012 Draws To A Close Read More »
Despite the promising disc sales numbers recently reported (and discussed here), the VOD marketplace segment shows no sign of halting its growth lessening its assumption of an increasing share of the home entertainment ecosystem. For studios and major distributors, this has a direct effect on the bottom line, with fewer discs being sold and/or rented …
Via the M & E Daily, the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance’s daily newsletter, we heard some news which everyone in the home entertainment industry has been hoping for. After several years of decline, consumer spending on discs and digital in the first half of 2012 grew 1.43% compared to the first half of 2011. …
Good News in the Home Entertainment Business and Blu-ray Read More »
Fast on the tail of the WSJ article about Binge TV viewing comes another TV-viewing-related news item in which Neilsen reports that Netflix customers are increasingly likely to be using the service to watch television series rather than movies. “Nineteen percent of survey respondents said they prefer to use Netflix for TV programming, an 8% …
A Second Golden Age of Television…Delivered Digitally Read More »
From a position of seeming-dominance in the home entertainment market not so long ago, Netflix has taken a beating in recent months through a series of missteps and some surprisingly sharp competition. Who would have guessed that this would be such an area of contention in the age of spiking VOD demand and emerging digital …
Beginning of the end for Netflix…or the end of the beginning? Read More »
With all the news about apps for movies, albums and streaming content, I’ve been curious to see how iTunes is going to change to keep up with the times. While it is part of the same big, happy family of Apple products, a number of my colleagues here at Giant Interactive have wondered how iTunes …