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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedEmerging new platforms bear watching in 2006: video iPod, PSP made big splashes in '05.(play station portable)
Video Business, January, 2006 by Sweeting, Paul
As the growth rate of DVD sales slowed sharply in 2005, studios and technology companies turned their attention to, new delivery platforms for movies and TV shows with an eye toward finding new avenues for growth. The biggest news of the year came from Apple Computers, which unveiled a long-anticipated video version of its popular iPod portable music player in October.
As part of its plunge into video, Apple also inked a deal with Disney under which the studio's ABC TV network will make some of its most popular prime time TV shows available for downloading from Apple's iTunes service one day after they air. That deal was quickly followed by a pact with NBC Universal to make episodes from a range of old and new shows available on iTunes. At...
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