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...more money than it gets from theaters. Where's the inevitability factor in a format that can't yet be duplicated at home? Even Jeffrey Katzenberg acknowledges that 3-D won't be a major factor in home viewing for quite some time. And he's talking only about DVDs. What about pay-cable? How would HBO show the 3-D version of Monsters vs Aliens - on a separate, 3-D-only channel, with glasses that came with your cable bill...
Broadcast's new enemy is digital media, including venues like Hulu that were created by the networks themselves, which cut into their ad dollars. Last year Heroes creator Tim Kring gave a legendary rant about how viewers using TiVo or DVDs or downloading - legally or not - cut into the show's audience, leaving "the saps and dips____ who can't figure out how to watch it in a superior way" to watch live TV (which still counts most for ad dollars). In one sense he was right, if undiplomatic. But only half right, because technology also makes it possible...
...world first, Xstrata, a $28 billion Swiss global mining company, has agreed to fund an endangered species' recovery. In exchange for spending millions on the marsupial, Xstrata's name will appear on everything wombat: from websites to educational DVDs to shirts worn by wildlife workers. Xstrata execs will also star in documentaries about the northern hairy-nose and speak at media events. Call it the ultimate in green corporate branding...
...always struck by the industry’s repeated willingness to jump in with both feet on whatever new technology comes along: “Online video conferencing? Great, we’ll try it.” “High-definition video? Well, DVDs don’t seem half bad, but, okay, we’ll try that too.” Whatever it is, they’re willing to go along with it. I’m not sure you’d say the same thing about the mainstream content businesses in the United...
Likes: spring rolls, CAPS LOCK, battered sausages, cake, milk, DVDs, beer, pizza, mineral water, his partially deaf grandma, G-rated movies, bowling, time travel, Coke, Coke Zero, banana...