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Article: Studio CTOs: DVDs/Blu-rays still producing lots of revenue.
- Article from:
- The Online Reporter
- Article date:
- June 26, 2009
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Sounding a bit like newspaper publishers or record labels, technology chiefs from the studios said content producers can still make a lot of money from sales of DVD/Blu-ray discs.
They met this week at their Entertainment Supply Chain Academy conference in Seattle. Its theme was "Maximizing Home Entertainment Sales & Profits in Turbulent Times" with session titles like "Go green!" "Build Blu (Ray)!" and "Stay out of the red!"
They acknowledged that consumers can get a lot of content for free on the Net but pointed out two disadvantages to Internet-delivered video:
- Downloads and video streams, so far at least, are not compatible with all the ...