Adding nuance to the day's home entertainment news. You can check out my column archives here. en-us http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312.html?nid=3581 Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use November 15, 2009 http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/1550050555.html?nid=3581 Remember the saying, “Content is king”? Often used in discussions about the relative importance of content vs. the various ways it is d... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/350050035.html?nid=3581 Netflix chief Reed Hastings said during the retailer's quarterly conference call yesterday that he thinks there may be economic opportunity for his... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/60050006.html?nid=3581 Research concern SNL Kagan predicts in a new study that packaged media "sell-through revenue will drop 13% to $12.86 billion in 2009 as VOD te... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/470049847.html?nid=3581 Disney classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs made its high-def debut as the No. 1 Blu-ray in its first week of release. And for a moment, we th... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/1000049700.html?nid=3581 UPDATE: 10/16-- Redbox president Mitch Lowe stopped by for a meet-and-greet on a trip to LA this week and we asked him straight out if the kio... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/30049603.html?nid=3581 Hastings chief John Marmaduke makes one of the most clear and well-reasoned arguments against Redbox and $1 per night DVD rentals that I've seen, i... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/1880049588.html?nid=3581 Barron's Tech Trader Daily blog reports that Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Olson today launched coverage of Coinstar (CSTR) with an Overweigh... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/620049462.html?nid=3581 Netflix chief Reed Hastings, already a member of the Video Business Video Hall of Fame and of Time magazine's "Time 100" list of the one ... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/1440049344.html?nid=3581 "Simply said, the studios have destroyed the price-value relationship in video, particularly when low priced rental alternatives have sp... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/610049261.html?nid=3581 The fan/sleuths over at Bluray.com are reporting that Target has several exclusive Blu-rays coming next week, including Gremlins and a less expensi... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/450049045.html?nid=3581 Universal City, Calif.—For an indication of 3D’s potential to reinvigorate the home entertainment market, look no further than the ef... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/150048815.html?nid=3581 Physidgital. I know it’s not a real word, but it’s the new word (you heard it here first!) that kept coming to mind as we laid out the ... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/1480048348.html?nid=3581 I conveyed in a piece last week the position of some studios that VOD, not Redbox, provides the ultimate in consumer convenience, at a price not th... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/1350048135.html?nid=3581 With every action by the studios, Redbox gets more press, most of it good from a consumer standpoint. Picture president Mitch Lowe as a sort of &ld... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/560047856.html?nid=3581 VB's Susanne Ault reported this week that many rental stores were buying Fox's sell-through version of Sept. 15 DVD release Wolverine for rental wi... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/850047685.html?nid=3581 When a Redbox rep called last night to ask if I'd want 15 minutes this morning with Mitch Lowe, the veteran (Video Droid, Netflix) video retailer w... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/1150047515.html?nid=3581 Another county heard from on the Redbox issue, and this is an interesting one. Last Wednesday, the same day Fox notified wholesalers that they are... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/10047401.html?nid=3581 Hard economic times or not, some companies keep chugging along in style. Here I'm thinking of Monterey Media (there's a reason it's the second... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/1080047308.html?nid=3581 UPDATE: Yet another reason for program suppliers to find a way to work with Redbox: The kiosk within the next year will be in all 2,600 Kroger... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/1940046794.html?nid=3581 L.A. Times reporter Ben Fritz, in the paper's Company Town blog, yesterday took a sharp little slap at the DEG's mid-year numbers release, pointing... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/1440046544.html?nid=3581 3D is still a little out of focus. Not long ago, I confessed that I was a 3D skeptic, believing the technology was really more of a gimmick, a nov... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/210046221.html?nid=3581 At the ESCA conference here in Los Angeles last week, I moderated a panel on 3D in home entertainment out of which (I thought) there were two inter... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/1070046107.html?nid=3581 I moderated a panel about BD Live at the ESCA conference this week in which we talked about the potential for BD Live to drive consumer marke... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/1960045996.html?nid=3581 It’s widely accepted that moms are the key decision makers in many large household spending decisions. This is a huge opportunity and a big c... http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1120000312/post/1470045947.html?nid=3581 I'm at ESCA today, and there's lots of good stuff coming out of the conference. 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