A report on a panel on digital movies at the Digital Hollywood conference earlier this week….fledgling Internet movie services need better networked TVs, more bandwidth, better interfaces and more content before they are ready for prime time, according to the panel.
One of those services, CinemaNow, has about 10,000 subscribers and one million unique visitors a month, about four percent of which rent a movie online, according to Curt Marvis, CEO of CinemaNow.
Content selection is another issue. CinemaNow has a library of 5,000 titles but currently makes available just 1,500 of them due to costs of servers, storage and encoding. But that is changing, Marvis said, estimating he could double the number of available titles this year.
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