[media] digital economics are here
Media is experimenting with a long-awaited transformation of distribution and delivery economics:
- breaking release windows: compressing, or disappearing altogether
- cross-over: theatrical, game, internet categories are blurring
- bypass: new or à la carte offers bypassing tiered cable/DBS delivery model
In January 2006, HDNet Films and 2929 Entertainment, both Mark Cuban enterprises, will begin simultaneous first-run (digitally-projected) theatrical, DVD, and cable distribution of Steven Soderbergh-directed features.
Articles
8 December 05
War of the Worlds: Hollywood Opts Out of the 'Google Economy'
Hollywood believes large-scale broadband video distribution would only destroy proven value, fail to provide alternative value, and alter a business model that is still far from being in decline. With near-total control of the most valuable program libraries and the business models governing their distribution, a shift towards broadband media will come largely on Hollywood’s terms and at an incremental pace.
Download this article:: WotW - Broadband Media.pdf [908.1kb]7 December 05
War of the Worlds - Part III: Beyond Networks
Telcos face their greatest challenge and opportunity – envisioning and implementing alternatives to their historically successful, but regulation- and network-centric business models.
Download this article:: WotW - Broadband Competition.pdf [2.2mb]12 October 05
Scenario - Viewers' Choice
Viewers’ Choice: Entertainment and Telco Transformation imagines the strategic effects of a shift in Telco TV strategy, abandoning head-to-head competition with cable and satellite in favor of an alternate entertainment delivery model, inflicting substantial damage on cable’s core business.
Download this article:: WotW - Scenarios ViewersChoice.pdf [1.6mb]11 October 05
Full-Service Network: Telecom’s Lost Decade
The full-service vision was largely video-centric, with an eye on the still-fragmented and debt-burdened cable industry as a threat in the “battle for the wire.” Fearing they might be relegated to transport services, while others “up the value chain” helped themselves to the multimedia booty, telcos decided to cut to the head of the line.
10 October 05
