There has been some speculation that the Sony victory in the high-definition digital video recorder war is somewhat "Pyhric", to the extent that content is moving to digital distribution, and away from physical media.
That might be premature,if a recent survey of U.K. consumers is any indication. The survey suggests Blu-ray DVRs will have the highest growth of any digital entertainment activity in 2008, according to Russell Hart, Chief Executive of Entertainment Media Research.
The survey asked about usage of 49 digital and entertainment activities. Around 24 percent of consumers surveyed reported they will start watching movies in the Blu-ray format in the next six months. "This is at least double the intention rate of any other entertainment activity," Hart says.
The other issue is that consumers are happy to watch on-demand programming as long as it is free. There's high interest in new movie releases (84 percent are interested and 48 percent say they are definitely interested.
Live music concerts are attractive to 72 percent of respondents. So is comedy, interesting to 79 percent of respondents.
When confronted with three options--subscription with unlimited content, PPV and free ad-supported models--the free model wins. About 70 percent of respondents would rather put up with the ads than pay for the content.
Still, 48 percent of respondents say they are "definitely interested" in new release movies and 53 percent are willing to pay to watch them.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Don't Worry about Blu-ray
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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