DVD Business Threatened By Online VOD

Online delivery of movies could soon cause an across-the-board decline in retail selling prices for packaged DVDs, according to In-Stat/MDR.

With online services like Movielink and CinemaNow selling movies for $4 apiece, that DVD prices could come under pressure…

Disney, Microsoft and Intel are positioned to benefit the most from the expected trend, said In-Stat…Disney’s MovieBeam services uses innovative push technology to deliver movies-on-demand at low cost, and Microsoft’s Windows Media Division covers all the key areas in the market. Intel’s mobile technology, on the other hand, promises to make laptop computers portable entertainment systems.

Small companies that are poised to provide disruptive technologies or business models include Akimbo, Euclid Discoveries, Synacor and thePlatform, most of which you keep hearing in my covearge here…

Also, Asia is likely to be the strongest market with regards to use of personal content items, accounting for 34.0% share in 2008, and Europe will be a strong number two market.

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