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Analysis and opinion on the hottest issues in the home entertainment industry, including technology, copy protection, high-definition DVD and digital rights management

  • OPINION: Testing ground
    By Paul Sweeting - 07/11/2008
     Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
    JULY 11 | Despite the billions it has made for the studios over the past three decades, the home video business has never gotten a lot of respect, either from Hollywood or from the self-anointed “visionaries” who have been predicting the demise of packaged media since at least the Reagan Administration. More

  • OPINION: Special delivery
    By Paul Sweeting of ContentAgenda - 07/18/2008
     Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
    JULY 18 | At the E3 show in Los Angeles, both Microsoft and Sony made news with announcements of expanded movie and TV download offerings for Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, respectively. More
  • OPINION: Making the connection
    By Paul Sweeting - 07/03/2008
     Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
    JULY 3 |  Were I a Blockbuster shareholder, I guess I’d be happy to see the company withdraw its bid to acquire Circuit City. The news sent the shares up more than 13% the day after the news broke, a rare good day for the beleaguered stock. More
  • OPINION: VOD in demand
    By Paul Sweeting - 06/27/2008
     Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
    JUNE 27 | Studio efforts to craft a limited, high-def video-on-demand window ahead of movies’ DVD and Blu-ray release hit a snag when the FCC extended the public-comment period on the MPAA’s petition to block digital video recorder recordings of the early showings. More
  • OPINION: Moving Up
    By Paul Sweeting - 06/20/2008
     Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
    JUNE 20 | SPEAKING AT the Entertainment Supply Chain Academy conference last week, Warner Home Video president Ron Sanders acknowledged the obvious: relatively inexpensive upconverting DVD players pose a threat to the industry’s efforts to market Blu-ray Disc. More
  • OPINION: Upping the ante
    By Paul Sweeting - 06/06/2008
     Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
    JUNE 6 | THE JAPANESE press has been full of speculation in the past week over purported plans by Toshiba to introduce a super up-converting DVD player that surpasses current up-converters and produces images from existing DVDs that are virtually identical to Blu-ray Disc. More
  • OPINION: Facing the cost of filling up
    By Paul Sweeting - 05/30/2008
     Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
    MAY 30 | Pull into Blockbuster and fill ’er up. That’s the basic idea behind the in-store download kiosk that Blockbuster chairman/CEO Jim Keyes unveiled in New York this week during the company’s annual meeting of shareholders. More
  • OPINION: High-def hurry
    By Paul Sweeting - 05/23/2008
     Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
    Last week, as I was reporting the story on the studios’ plans for an early, high-def video-on-demand window, the few studio executives who would talk about the issue at all—and then only on background—did their best to wave me off the story. More
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Rentrak

Market Data


Spiderman spoof, Superhero Movie bit buyers this week.


Top DVD Sellers

RANKTITLE
1 SUPERHERO MOVIE!
2 VANTAGE POINT
3 THE RUINS

Top DVD Rentals

RANKTITLE
1 VANTAGE POINT
2 DRILLBIT TAYLOR
3 10,000 B.C.


Source: Rentrak Corp.; week ended 7/12/2008

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