This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Need an editor? now international distribution.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Need an editor? now international distribution.

No the real frustration is when something is announced with NO plans for extended release... Then they complain when Australians torrent...

The only distribution model that will work is universal availability at 'impulse buy' pricing.

Steam is actually the definitive success for this model it just needs our industry to open its eyes.

There's proof from studies that tot renting drops dramatically in every market that Netflix opens in.

Mike

On 25 Jun, 2013, at 4:02 PM, COLOUR CLOUD TV <ian@colourcloud.tv> wrote:

> Yes Utube can be considered, but product is limited (unless you like cats), Netflix, in 1 or 2 countries, Amazon I am not aware of their availability, iTunes just works. There are some programs, you just can't get, an example of this is "Newsroom", I do not know anyway to get this program outside of the US (other than a spoof account). The real frustration is when something is announced in the US with no statement regarding its limited distribution.
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> On 25/06/2013, at 9:41, David Ross <speckydave@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > YouTube (Google), Amazon (LoveFilm) and NetFlix are three companies with
> > international distribution that immediately spring to mind. iTunes only
> > distribute TV shows in a tiny percentage of the countries that they operate
> > in, so LoveFilm and NetFlix are comparable in that field. NetFlix is even
> > producing its own content (House of Cards.).
> > Movies are a different matter at the moment, as far as I can tell, and
> > iTunes appear to have a pretty big head start, but I wouldn't bet on that
> > playing field not changing pretty drastically over the next few years.
> >
> > D.
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> > On 24 June 2013 23:53, COLOUR CLOUD TV <ian@colourcloud.tv> wrote:
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> > > **
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> > >
> > > The company that nails this has to offer international distribution, Apple
> > > is the only company that comes close, all the rest are restricted to the
> > > US.
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPad
> > > IAN WILSON
> > > 0418 327 082
> > > ian@colourcloud.tv
> > >
> > >
> > > On 25/06/2013, at 4:31, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:
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> > > > As the studios lose the lock on distribution (thanks to the internet),
> > > it does open the doors to more quality material. The problem becomes
> > > separating the wheat from the chaff. The Studio system (and networks) acted
> > > as editors in the same way as publishers of books. In other words, they
> > > selected what would get made, and while not always correct, think how much
> > > cap they kept us from having to slog through. (Cue YouTube)
> > > >
> > > > The future belongs to whoever nails the algorithm for determining what
> > > you would like to se and delivering it to you. Sort of like Pandora is to
> > > music. My bet has been on Google to be the guys who nail it.
> > > >
> > > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, James Culbertson <albion@...> wrote:
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> > > > << And I'll pose another question to Terry: Were most of the greatest
> > > films embraced by Hollywood? I mean Hollywood was't the greatest judge of
> > > what was a bad product or not. How would Truffaut, Fellini, Greenaway,
> > > Tarkovsky, etc., have fared in the Hollywood distribution model? Admittedly
> > > there is the occasional Malick and Aronofsky, but as viewers at least,
> > > aren't we better off today then we were when the moat was wider. I guess
> > > today the moat is thinner but the walls are the length of the earth.>>
> > > >
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