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...Online advertising revenue may not soon supplant DVD sales in developed countries. But, where legal, high-quality DVDs are either unavailable or have simply lost out to cheap, low-quality pirated ones, whatever little revenue may come in from the Web is worth it. American viewership is accelerating its decades-long flight to cable channels. In the short term, networks need whatever revenue they can get. Internet broadcasts point the way forward. Active experimentation on a global scale is the only way to refine the current model of online advertising and distribution into something that can support the costly...
...Consumers of television programs often have only one or two price points to choose from if they want a full television season: either free, if they download illegally, or more than $20 if they choose iTunes, DVD, or Blu-ray. There are far more consumers at $0 than at $20, even though consuming at $0 takes on a criminal hue. Those willing to buy at some price in between are completely ignored. Abroad, where a viewer can only consume at $0, the choice is obvious. The television industry risks annihilation in the near future, but the enterprise certainly should...
...chase with a tunnel reprise - encased in the bloated carcass of a script by Chris Morgan that must have been researched in the Archive of Movie Clichés. In these interminable interstices, audiences in the theater can take a popcorn break or enjoy a snooze. Viewers of the DVD are luckier; they know how to find scene selection...
...early admissions process, he began to look at the Ivy League.“One day, I got a call from Harvard,” Jones says. “It was kind of funny because I didn’t know my parents sent my highlight DVD to Harvard. It wasn’t really in my mind.”In the end, the chance to receive more playing time as well as a renowned education was too good to turn down, and Jones arrived on campus ready to make a statement. So far, he has, and opponents...
...timbers of the H.M.S. Gannet. Obama responded by giving Brown a set of Hollywood-movie DVDs, sparking outrage in the British press, which took the mass-produced gift as evidence that Obama "dislikes Britain." (Only later did Brown discover that the DVDs did not even work on British formatted DVD players, yielding another round of public recriminations in England...