RealNetworks’ CEO Rob Glaser puts fear of God among the movie industry execs…”The rate of innovation [in the film and video industry] is not what is needed to avoid the Napsterization the music industry went through,” Glaser said in a presentation at the CES.
The [legitmate] services that do exist, such as CinemaNow and MovieLink, aren’t compelling enough, because the usage terms are too restrictive and the movies offered too old, Glaser said.
Movies should be available online the same day DVDs are available in stores, Glaser said. “Right now they are [available] later. The Internet sits on its thumbs and says we will be there in a couple of months and maybe you’ll like some old back and whites,” he said.
Glaser set four challenges for his company and the digital media industry as a whole: getting the film and video industry off its feet; continuing to drive digital media into the mainstream; making it easier to deploy digital media services; and ensuring devices, music stores, and rights management systems interoperate.
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