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Monday, April 03, 2006

Studios offer movies for download

So studios have now decided to cautiously dip their toe in the tepid, turbulent water of Internet Media Distribution. Guess it isn't a fad after all! Is this a sign that the 'brick and mortar' stores selling media of all types: software, music, video, books... are on the way out?

Of course it is.

Why bundle up and brave the cold to go to Best Buy (No, Not Walmart. Only uninformed people shop at Walmart...) to pick up King Kong 3, when you could just download it from the studio? Not to mention it will be available for download weeks before the first DVD is pressed...

For now, the studios are pretending to actually care about the Brick and Mortar stores which have been the paradigm of business for so long. They have set prices high and quality low. For now. That will change once they realize that a handful of servers and a minimum-wage employee to run them can take the place of packaging and distribution, not to mention ELIMINATING THE MIDDLEMAN.

If you are a middleman, you better realize it now, and adapt or get out. If you don't think the studios and publishers won't put you out of business to make an extra three cents per unit shifted...

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-CZ

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