JUNE 1 | Digital rights management continues to face a stiff headwind in Europe. The latest blow came when a district court in Finland ruled that CSS is at preventing unauthorized copying of DVDs at this point that it no longer rates legal protection. MAY 25 | The longer it takes the industry to reach a deal on managed copy, and the more complex it makes the process for consumers, the less value managed copy will have in the marketplace.
Whether intended or not, Amazon s decision to start selling music downloads provides a valuable lesson in the role retailers could and probably should play in promoting the cause of interoperability in the market for digital content and devices. The House Energy and Commerce Committee s signature issue the debate over so-called Net neutrality HDNet founder Mark Cuban insisted, is the wrong debate about the wrong issue: another response to scarcity that is likely to result in the wrong outcome. I ve often wondered how committed Sony Computer Entertainment chairman Ken Kutaragi was to the decision to include a Blu-ray Disc drive in every PlayStation 3 console.
He is enough of an engineer to have known that including a Blu-ray drive would significantly increase the cost of PS3 consoles, putting it at a competitive disadvantage to the Xbox 360. Given the current market realities, the best high-def strategy for a studio is to release movies in both formats. At this point, a single-format strategy by any given studio is not affecting the course of the hardware format battle, which is moving under its own internal momentum.
Ariztical celebrated the May 29 DVD launch of its Eating Out 2 with a party at Eleven in West Hollywood, Calif. The gay sequel was released theatrically earlier this year.
The Chicago chapter of the Independent Dealers of Entertainment Assn.
held its second annual Free For All retailer event at the People's Choice Video Express store in Waukegan, Ill.
Brothers Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson and Andrew Wilson visited the Blockbuster Video headquarters in Dallas with ThinkFilm execs the day after the premiere of their movie The Wendell Baker Story, which began a limited theatrical run on May 18.
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