07 May 10 FCC approves MPAA request to stream films directly to viewers over secure line prior to DVD release
It was appear today that the Federal Communications Commission accustomed a MPAA-led appeal to acquiesce afresh appear films to be transmitted to U.S. households via a “secure top analogue manual band from their cable or digital providers” above-mentioned to their DVD or Blu-ray release.
The accommodation by the FCC will about acquiesce the cine studios to actualize addition absolution window for films, one that comes amid the affected absolution of a blur and the DVD release, which usually occurs 90 canicule afterwards a cine opens in theaters. What that new absolution window will attending like has still not been bent but it’s acceptable consumers will be able to acquirement a blur for defended cyberbanking supply anon to their top analogue television sets ancient afterwards it begins its affected run. It’s abiding to be beneath than the 90 canicule if a blur hits the DVD shelves but could be as abbreviate as 45 canicule afterwards a blur debuts in theaters. (By the time a cine has been in theaters for 45 canicule it has becoming 90% of its affected revenue.)
The activity protects these films from piracy as explained by the MPAA’s Admiral and Interim CEO Bob Pisano in a release, “This activity is an important achievement for consumers who will now accept far greater admission to see contempo top analogue movies in their homes. And it is a above footfall advanced in the development of new business models by the motion account industry to acknowledge to growing customer demand…We acutely acknowledge the acceptance by the FCC that afresh appear movies charge appropriate aegis adjoin agreeable annexation if they are broadcast to home televisions.”
However, it could be a austere affair for amphitheater owners who accept been aggravating to bottle their 90 absolute affected window for months. Says John Fithian, the admiral of the National Association of Amphitheater Owners, “The FCC’s accommodation is not surprising. The annexation is a austere problem. The affair of the affected absolution window, however, will be absitively in the marketplace.”
Studio chains could alpha affairs the films appropriate abroad now that the defended band has been approved. However, it alone works on cable boxes fabricated aural the endure two years, forth with digital televisions and the newest playstations. Older cable boxes would accept to be upgraded for the defended files.
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04 May 10 ‘DVD release of ‘Avatar’ a big experiment’
“I tell you what it’s going to be a big experiment. It’s going to be very interesting. We were just told we broke a one day record for the Blu-Ray. So we’re helping to sell Blu-Ray disc players and big TV sets so it’s all good, it’s all heading in the right direction,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted him as saying.
‘Avatar’ has already become the biggest grossing movie of all time during it’s cinema release, breaking the 2 billion dollar barrier.
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22 Apr 10 ‘Avatar’ Launches Nationwide
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — At exactly midnight April 21, Mike Lequieu, assistant manager at Best Buy, got on the store’s public address system and made the announcement everyone was waiting for: “The time is now midnight and you can get your copy of Avatar.”
Hundreds of retailers big and small kept their doors open late Wednesday night to accommodate the masses looking to get their hands on the DVD and Blu-ray Disc/DVD combo releases of the No. 1 film of all time.
Aiming to overtake New Moon as the top-selling title of 2010, Avatar may also have the legs to become the top-selling home entertainment title of all-time. With more than $2.7 billion in box office receipts worldwide, its staying power was made even more apparent here, considering that just two miles away, it’s still playing in theaters, more than four months after its initial release.
“I’m really excited,” said Kelvin Larkin, 42, of Los Angeles. He was the first at this store to get his hands on a home video copy of Avatar, choosing the Blu-ray/DVD combo that Best Buy sold for $22.99. “I don’t think I’m going to sleep at all tonight.”
Retailers went all out for the release, with storewide signage, giveaways and tie-ins to Blu-ray players and HDTVs. Walmarts, Hastings, Blockbuster and Meijer stores stayed open late to give consumers the opportunity to grab their copies before everyone else, and call in sick Thursday. And it wasn’t just the major chains that accommodated the release.
“Grocery and drug stores have embraced Avatar to an unprecedented degree in the DVD category,” said Simon Swart, EVP and GM of North America for 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
At this Best Buy, fans who attended the midnight release scored free posters and T-shirts. At Walmarts, the first 50 people to buy the release earned a free 3D sticker.
“I love midnight releases for anything, and Avatar is big enough for me to be here,” said Alex Billington, 24, of Sherman Oaks, Calif. “I can’t wait to see it again.”
His friend, 29-year-old Peter Sciretta of West Hollywood, said he was disappointed that the initial releases from Fox wouldn’t offer 3D, which drove Avatar’s success at the box office. That didn’t stop him from grabbing a Blu-ray combo copy. “I know I’ll buy it again when it comes out on 3D,” he said. Fox has promised editions with special features in November, though a 3D home video release has not been announced.
Prior to the release, the Blu-ray/DVD combo accounted for 65% of preorders.
“Fox’s Blu-ray for Avatar is state-of-the-art,” Best Buy’s Lequieu said. “People are here tonight because Avatar is one of those films for the whole family, that you can watch over and over again.”
Twenty-year-old Clara Hidalgo of Los Angeles said she saw the film three times in theaters, and she’ll give the Blu-ray a good workout at home.
“Yes, I’ll watch it tonight,” she said. “I wanted 3D, but I won’t wait for that.”
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