Posts Tagged ‘ DVDs ’

Cable, DVD Industries Sag as Consumers Shift Attention To Online Media

Feb 9th, 2009 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, General, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

Todd Mundt, longtime public radio guy (and a favorite former Iowan) who writes as The Mediavore, is featured today in a CNN Money article about Americans’ changing media consumption habits. Mundt’s changing media consumption habits are reflective of similar changes taking place throughout many U.S. households. Many families are economizing on entertainment costs, as they [...]



Joss Whedon Doubles His Money With The Help Of ‘Dr. Horrible’

Feb 5th, 2009 | By | Category: Video, Video Podcasts

Knowledge@Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania business school’s online journal, has a great interview with televsion producer Joss Whedon. Whedon, the screenwriter/head writer of the “Buffy The Vampire-Slayer” movie and television series, creator of cult favorite “Firefly” and its movie counterpart “Serenity,”talked with the magazine about his recent web-only miniseries, “Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.” The whole [...]



New Report: Young People Watching Less TV, More Internet Media

Dec 22nd, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Video

Young Americans are watching less TV and more Internet media According to a new report from Deloitte, millennials, the generation of 14- to 25-year-olds, watch just 10.5 hours of TV a week (older viewers watch twice as much!). They also spend less time watching DVDs than any other age group. But while they are spending [...]



Playboy Dumps DVD Business For Internet Video

Oct 16th, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Video

Playboy CEO Christie Hefner announced yesterday plans to shut down its DVD business and focus on Internet video: It is unavoidable that we reduce our cost structure to reflect current economic realities even as we continue to invest in our growth businesses. We will also respond to changes in how consumers access content and advertisers use [...]



Want To Know Why Apple TV Is Still Steve Jobs’ “Hobby”?

Sep 17th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Streaming Video, Video

Want to know why Steve Jobs is still calling Apple TV his “hobby”? New research by The NPD Group offers an explanation: 41 percent of dollars budgeted for movies and video is spent on DVD movie purchases; 11 percent for purchases of TV programs on DVD; 29 percent on DVD rentals including Netflix and other [...]



The One More Thing Steve Jobs Didn’t Announce Today

Jan 15th, 2008 | By | Category: Commentary, General

By now, you’ve probably seen one of the live blogs of Steve Job’s Macworld Keynote. You’ve probably also had a chance to read about Steve Jobs’ announcements, includin: the new Macbook Air; the Time Capsule wireless backup device; updates to the iPod touch; iTunes movie rentals; the new Apple TV software; the free iPhone updates; [...]



Internet DVD Rentals Slowing Decline Of Video Rental Industry

Jun 28th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Movie Store, Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Podcasting Research, Podcasting Software, Video

U.S. video rental spending is well off its 2001 peak of $10.3 billion, but revenue from online subscriptions is beginning to put some steam back into the rental industry, according to Adams Media Research (AMR). AMR projects online subscription spending to increase by 41% to $1.9 billion in 2007. “The five-year decline in the video [...]



DVD Ripper For iPods, PSPs Updated

Dec 27th, 2006 | By | Category: Digital Video Recorder, iPods & Portable Media Players, Video

MadZ Software has announced the release of version 2.5 of its DVD to iPod / PSP Video Converter software, an application that rips DVD video files and converts them into the appropriate format for uploading to and viewing on an Apple iPod Video or a Sony PSP. According to the company, the app can convert [...]



A Quarter Of US Homes Have MP3 Players

Dec 21st, 2006 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players, Podcasting Statistics, Video

Nielsen Media Research has released findings from its 3rd Quarter Home Technology Report which show that MP3 players are now found in a quarter of US homes, and that more U.S. households now own DVD players (81.2% of all households) than VCRs (79.2% of households). The trends bode well for podcasting, if not for video [...]