US Video Intelligence

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Reports

US rental down in 2010 but will halt ten-year slide in 2011 | 03 Aug 10 tags › | US video rental transactions are on track to grow for the third year running, though spending will decrease again in 2010; but then the market looks set to stabilize and actually post some reasonable mid-single-digit growth rates through 2014. Price and convenience will keep kiosk rentals climbing steadily while value-add streaming revitalizes subscription rental, fostering a near-term growth spur...

New-release Features on Video Still Down in Q1 2010 | 09 Jul 10 tags › | Analysis of the first quarter new-release video slate finds studio revenue from shipments of new films on disc to the rental and retail markets are still in steep decline. Overall sales of packaged video also continued to decline in the first half of 2010, despite some signs of economic recovery in consumer spending on other goods. An analysis of the wealth of other entertainment options now avail...

Sezmi's personalized TV offers quick path to video for telcos | 15 Apr 10 tags › | TV viewers in southern California now have access to a new affordable pay-TV option besides cable, satellite, and IPTV, thanks to a little startup called Sezmi. The Belmont-based service provider uses a combination of broadcast digital spectrum and broadband Internet to deliver TV and video content to its subscribers at competitive prices. To keep costs down, Sezmi relies on other companies' infra...

Analyst commentary

Blockbuster, Comcast jointly market physical video, VOD | 17 Aug 10 tags › | Blockbuster is testing a joint marketing effort with cable system giant Comcast to promote its by-mail video rental service to Comcast subscribers, providing subscription access to DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles...

Disney sells Miramax for target price | 12 Aug 10 tags › | Walt Disney has sold Miramax Films to a private consortium, Filmyard Holdings, for $660m. The deal, agreed in July 2010, is expected to conclude in the final quarter the year and includes rights to more than...

Technicolor active in 3D BD authoring | 12 Aug 10 tags › | US film and digital services company involved in all stages of the 3D Blu-ray Disc (BD) supply chain claims that it has contracts to author 15 3D BD titles - half the 30 3D BD authoring projects awarded to...

Presentations

Strategies for digital success: The future in context | 25 Mar 10 tags › | Screen Digest's director of digital media research Arash Amel looks back at our forecasts for the online movie space four years ago to assess whether our then controversial views have been realised. It looks at how much revenues are being made in major markets out of online movie VoD, and compares this with our 2006 forecasts. Plus, which business models are the most successful with the studios, a...

Does the movie industry need a new business model? | 21 Mar 10 tags › | Presentation given at Screen Digest's PEVE conference by chief analyst Ben Keen on the impact that shrinking windows is having on studio revenues, the growing dispute over windows between exhibitors and distributors, the wildly different strategies deployed by the studios in the digital space, and how windows are impacting title performance on digital platforms such as iTunes.