Tightening the supply chain6/30/2006 LOS ANGELES—At the ESCA conference here last month, Alison Casey, business director of U.K. research concern Understanding & Solutions, gave one of the most engaging and down-to-earth research presentations I’ve seen.
Creativity bubbles up6/16/2006
Most of the industry discussion—and the most heated industry discussion—about DVD and the Internet today focuses on distribution.
Long live 'video'6/2/2006
It has been five years or more since the major studio video divisions began dropping the term “video” from their official monikers, and substituting “home entertainment,” to reflect a broader world (or at least industry) view instead.
Old and new roads converge5/19/2006
At first glance, it may look like DVD rental kiosks and digital downloads of movies are worlds apart in their ability to move the home entertainment industry toward the future.
Hope springs eternal5/5/2006
Domestic box-office receipts through April were up 4% over 2005, according to Variety, and just a hair ahead of grosses for the same four months in 2002, the year that set the all-time annual domestic box-office record at $9.3 billion.
Basics might boost biz4/21/2006
It’s clear after the first quarter, if it wasn’t before, that DVD sales are at a plateau. Not only has the format’s growth slowed, it has, at least for the first quarter, stopped.
High stakes game4/7/2006
The FTC late last month gave videogame retailers and publishers a potentially potent defense against the restrictive videogame legislation that is currently pending.
Success is genderless3/24/2006
When I first became editor of Video Business in 1998, several women whom I respected in the industry congratulated me by noting their pleasure that a woman would be handed the responsibility for day to day operations of the magazine.
The story not told3/10/2006
It’s fitting that the Motion Picture Association of America last week released its annual theatrical market statistics report on the heels of the Academy Awards, where I’m sure it was lost on no one who makes a living in the home entertainment business that DVD was swiped at.
It’s a small world3/3/2006
The music industry has found a surprising new sweet spot and, childish as it is, video marketers are also trying to get a piece of it.
