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    Variety: Internet VOD challenges pay TV

    February 17th, 2012 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Internet VOD challenges pay TV Number of iVOD users reached 7 million in 2011 By TODD KUSHIGEMACHI The video-on-demand market for paid rentals is currently ruled by pay TV services, but the Internet-on-demand market is growing in strength, according to the NPD Group. Pay TV VOD services hit $1.3 billion in revenue for 2011, according to [...]

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    Life After Sundance: Distribution and Marketing for the 99 Percent

    January 30th, 2012 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    IndieWire: Life After Sundance: Distribution and Marketing for the 99 Percent Sundance selected 110 features from 4,042 submissions for its 2012 U.S. and World Dramatic and Documentary Competition lineups. Based on the festival’s history, it’s fair to say that less than 40 of those films will be acquired by established, full-service film distributors. At best, this translates [...]

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    DEG: Blu-ray, Digital Helped Lift 2011

    January 11th, 2012 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Home Media Magazine: DEG: Blu-ray, Digital Helped Lift 2011 10 Jan, 2012By: Chris Tribbey, Thomas K. Arnold Higher-margin products and strong consumer spending on Blu-ray Disc helped stabilize the home entertainment industry in 2011, according to full-year figures released Jan. 9 by DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. While overall spending on packaged media and digital delivery was [...]

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    The Wrap: VOD Rides to the Rescue of Indie Film

    November 29th, 2011 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    VOD Rides to the Rescue of Indie Film By Brent Lang The indie film industry has found a life preserver — and it’s not floating in movie theaters. In fact, it’s the very model studios have been unsuccessfully trying to push past theater owners lately: debuting movies on video-on-demand simultaneously — or even in advance of [...]

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    NYT: For Home Entertainment Releases, a Rare Bright Spot

    October 31st, 2011 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    For Home Entertainment Releases, a Rare Bright Spot By MICHAEL CIEPLY Published: October 30, 2011 LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s troubled home entertainment business is moving in an unaccustomed direction: Up. Consumer spending on discs and on-demand releases  like “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” was up in the quarter year over year. On Monday, the Digital [...]

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  • Media Post News: Global Online TV, Video Revs Hit $22B In 2016

    Media Post News: Global Online TV, Video Revs Hit $22B In 2016

    October 13th, 2011 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Global Online TV, Video Revs Hit $22B In 2016 by Wayne Friedman, Yesterday, 12:00 AM Big business awaits as TV content owners worldwide increasingly move online during the next five years. Global online TV and video revenues will grow five times their current size to reach $21.52 billion in 2016 from $3.48 billion in 2010, [...]

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    CTAM in NY: On-Demand Movies To Generate $2 Billion In Sales In 2011

    October 12th, 2011 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    CTAM in NY: On-Demand Movies To Generate $2 Billion In Sales In 2011 Category To Grow 10% Behind Increasing Number Of Day-And-Day Releases, Myriad Marketing Tactics Mike Reynolds — Multichannel News, 10/6/2011 5:24:51 PM  Check out more CTAM in New York coverage here When it comes to movies on demand, the more that are offered [...]

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    iTunes Ups Online Movie Market Share After Two-year Decline

    August 23rd, 2011 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Home Media Magazine: iTunes Ups Online Movie Market Share After Two-year Decline 22 Aug, 2011By: Erik Gruenwedel Walmart’s Vudu and Amazon also increase market penetration in iVOD and electronic sellthrough, while Sony and Microsoft lose Apple iTunes increased its market penetration in online transactional video-on-demand, or iVOD, and electronic sellthrough of movies during the first half [...]

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    Home Media: Warner to Bow UltraViolet Digital Locker

    August 3rd, 2011 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Warner to Bow UltraViolet Digital Locker With ‘Green Lantern’ and ‘Horrible Bosses’ Disc Releases 3 Aug, 2011By: Erik Gruenwedel Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes appears to be warming to Netflix but declined to comment on if a content deal is forthcoming. Warner Bros. will launch its first home entertainment discs to include cloud-based digital locker UltraViolet [...]

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    Paid Content: Apple TV Users Can Now Watch Purchased iTunes Shows

    August 2nd, 2011 | Industry News, News | jwilka

    Apple TV Users Can Now Watch Purchased iTunes Shows, Not Just Rentals Tom Krazit Aug 1, 2011 5:04 PM Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has linked its Apple TV device to television shows purchased from a user’s iTunes account, meaning that those in the Apple Garden can now buy a show on an iOS device and watch [...]

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