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.
On 24 June 2013 23:53, COLOUR CLOUD TV <ian@colourcloud.tv> wrote:
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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.
>
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> ian@colourcloud.tv
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> 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:
> >
> > << 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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