It is not unheard of for one or more content providers to favor one channel, or even one contestant within a channel. As a rule, theatrical exhibition gets priority for new movie releases, with a standard set of release windows for other channels. In recent decades, the home video and DVD windows have changed the most, since home video and DVD channels now represent the single-biggest source of revenue, by channel.
But there are stresses in the channel as the revenue from home video and DVD, especially DVD purchases, is declining. In the once-hugely-important, and now simply important video rental channel, Blockbuster, historically the single most important video rental channel, and now the largest remaining place-based retailer, is struggling to survive, and seems to be getting a lifeline thrown to it by some of the leading stuidos.
Blockbuster recently got an exclusive deal with Time Warner, and apparently now has distribution deals with the Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment that give Blockbuster an advantage: new release rentals will be available at Blockbuster, and not through Netflix or Redbox, about a month earlier.
Basically, that means Blockbuster will be able to rent new hit movies and releases on the same day they become available for purchase. Since each form of distribution satisfies part of the fixed demand for any new title (most people view a movie only once), it makes a difference in terms of sales volume that one channel partner has a month advantage.
The unusual new arrangement with Blockbuster shows just how important a distribution channel it is deemed to be. So appparently concerned are studios about the company's survival that some are giving Blockbuster a significant sales advantage over the rival video rental distributors.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Studios Throw Blockbuster Video a Lifeline
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20th Century Fox,
Blockbuster,
Sony Pictures,
Time Warner,
video rental
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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