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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedStudios hold key to streaming success: confab panelists also cite tech concerns.(Digital Hollywood)
Video Business, April, 2005 by Netherby, Jennifer; Gallo, Eliza
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. -- Getting studios to license more content for streaming video and downloads online remains the key challenge for legal movie download services, according to panelists at Digital Hollywood. During the three-day confab here, executives from CinemaNow, Movielink, Real Networks and Akimbo said movie downloads are years off from reaching the mainstream.
That's partly due to limited content offerings from the major studios and partly because it will probably be a while before Internet-to-TV connections are common in U.S. homes, panelists said. The major Hollywood studios do license films for video-on-demand, but films are offered for only 90 days and there is a limit to which films are offered, execs noted. So the platform remains in a...
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