available to FULL subscribers of: Broadband Media Intelligence published: 13-Sep-06 pages: - tables & charts: Author/s Arash Amel Dan Cryan Marie Bloomfield Territories covered Western Europe Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Companies covered 2424 Video Amazon AOL Apple Arcor BBC Bit Torrent BT BT Vision Canal Plus Channel 4 Cinema Now Constantin Deutsche Telekom Discovery Holdings DreamWorks Ebay EuropaCorp film2home FNAC Glowria Google Guba HMV in2movies Intel Lovefilm Microsoft Movie Link Moviestream NTL Orange Paramount Pictures Pathe Rosso Alice SF Anytime Sky Sony Pictures T-Online Telecom Italia Telefonica Tesco TF1 Tiscali TPS Twentieth Century Fox Universal Universal Pictures Virgin Warner Bros Wippit TV2 Sputnik Transmission Films

This report considers the market for the digital distribution of filmed entertainment and the obstacles which must be overcome before movie download services become a mass market proposition. Screen Digest predicts that European movie downloading will accelerate from Euro 10m in 2005 to Euro 690m by the end of 2010.

Slowing growth in the physical home entertainment sector has sharpened the focus of Hollywood Studios on the potential of online distribution. Between 2004 and 2005 total trade revenues on retail and rental DVD fell by more than 8% in Western Europe. Key obstacles to the growth of digital downloading including: broadband speeds; rights issues; pricing policies and rights management are all addressed.

The market overview considers: the traditional value chain; VoD delivery options; total broadband subscribers; future value chain and revenues by business model. There is also dedicated analysis of each of the existing online movie service providers and the market as a whole in Western Europe.

Covered in the report:

Historical and five year forecast volume and revenue numbers for 16 Western European markets, including:
Digital retail
Digital rental
A la cart
Subscription
Box office revenue
Video & DVD revenues
Analysis of digital movie download value chain and business models (including pay-per-view, subscription VoD and digital retail)
Market drivers, obstacles and opportunites
Profiles of online movie service providers, including telcos, ISPs, cable and pay tv operators, portals, technology companies, online DVD rentailers, etailers and retailers


Executive summary
Technology
Business models
Piracy

Market overview
Traditional movie market overview
Value chain
The impact of 'digital'
Video-on-Demand (VoD)
Business models
Pay-Per-View (Digital rental)
Subscription VoD (SVoD)
Digital Retail
Obstacles and Drivers
Obstacles
Opportunities

Online movie service providers
Telcos and ISPs
Incumbent telcos
Pure ISPs and alternative networks
Cable operators
Portals
Pay-TV operators and Broadcasters
Technology companies
Apple
Microsoft
Intel
Sony
Online DVD rentailers
Etailers and retailers
E-tailers
Bricks and Mortar retailers
Third parties

European VoD market in figures
Big Five
Benelux
Scandinavia
Rest of Europe