By: Claudio Cocorocchia

Claudio Cocorocchia — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:26:20 +0000

Regarding the statement “This all suggests that,
despite growth, consolidation and opportunity in the space, the UK online movie
sector is still the Wild West. There is still ample opportunity for better
services to come along and dominate.”…sure, if you have the cash! The
issue is simply that digital rights are still too restrictive, too expensive,
and too inferior to the physical product (sub-titles? bonus content?
multi-lingual support?). The Lack of VoD titles on services is mostly the
content owner’s fault since they make it expensive and difficult for a service
provider to distribute their content. Getting digital rights to movies is the
easy part – Paying for it, making your business case work, and delivering it to
the end customer is the challenging part. So until content owners relax their
rights and look longer term (instead of focusing on the short term), the
“legal” VoD market will have growth issues. Additionally, what
perhaps Nick Thomas from Forrester does not realize is that content owners
could care less about “creating compelling enough services to
meet what is actually a growing consumer inclination to pay for digital
content.”…their business is to generate the most revenue possible from
their IP with the least amount of effort and risk – Why should they take the
risk of launching a distribution service (NOT their core competency) when
others will do it? They just need to charge others silly licensing fees for
their content in order to generate revenues. Hulu is an example of a
“test” service for the majors and the only reason why it is not in
major trouble like its competitor Netflix is because they essentially have a
much lower cost for content…

By: Siathomas73

Siathomas73 — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:59:27 +0000

Online movie is far better than DVD because overall its cheaper, it is more readily available and the quality is great thus it isn’t a surprise that more and more people are choosing it than DVD.

By: Angus Swan

Angus Swan — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:51:34 +0000

As a very recent trial customer to Lovefilm on PS3, i have to say i’m pretty disappointed with the ‘watch now’ choice. I searched for Julie Walters and only two of her more obscure movies are available to watch now. The streaming aspect of the package feels like an afterthought. Also, the quality is appalling – marginally better than a youtube video and certainly no better than Home Choice which was pioneering film and TV delivery over DSL a decade ago.

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