Why the movie industry can't innovate, and the result is SOPA

  • 1940’s – movie studios had to divest their distribution channel – they owned over 50% of the movie theaters in the U.S. “It’s all over,” complained the studios. In fact, the number of screens went from 17,000 in 1948 to 38,000 today.
  • 1950’s – broadcast television was free; the threat was cable television. Studios argued that their free TV content couldn’t compete with paid.
  • 1970’s – Video Cassette Recorders (VCR’s) were going to be the end of the movie business. The movie businesses and its lobbying arm MPAA fought it with “end of the world” [hyperbole]. The reality? After the VCR was introduced, studio revenues took off like a rocket.  With a new channel of distribution, home movie rentals surpassed movie theater tickets.
  • 2000 – Digital Video Recorders (DVR) like TiVo allowing consumer to skip commercials was going to be the end of the TV business. DVR’s reignite interest in TV.
  • Today it’s the Internet that’s going to put the studios out of business. Sound familiar?

Interesting!

filmsandfoxes

192 notes

Show

  1. atvtiwsbis reblogged this from churchofindustry
  2. spyingonyou reblogged this from doriandawes
  3. inbonobo reblogged this from filmsandfoxes and added:
    Please Mr SOPA, don’t close the Internet.
  4. seymourbuhts reblogged this from sigma-x
  5. vulcanhearing reblogged this from graphictreetop and added:
    I don’t get the movie industry, it’s ideas are always so old, maybe it’s because the people who call the shots are old,...
  6. dbignell reblogged this from filmsandfoxes
  7. brokenhyoids reblogged this from she-dreamt-she-was-a-bulldozer
  8. she-dreamt-she-was-a-bulldozer reblogged this from masukukaja
  9. caprimom reblogged this from filmsandfoxes
  10. subcontained reblogged this from thewaterwillcome
  11. graphictreetop reblogged this from ashleymisfit
  12. ashleymisfit reblogged this from diabsoule
  13. masukukaja reblogged this from diabsoule
  14. diabsoule reblogged this from dotcomslashpost
  15. jynx88 reblogged this from void-born
  16. deathbybillions reblogged this from filmsandfoxes
  17. themockingjayrevolution reblogged this from filmsandfoxes
  18. midnight-owlie reblogged this from mauvesky
  19. bloomysqueeb reblogged this from dangerouscake
  20. dangerouscake reblogged this from theinkundermyskin
  21. nefferlemort reblogged this from churchofindustry and added:
    Back in the 20s, the movie studios would go around New York with goons hitting up theaters that refused to play their...
  22. machinamagica reblogged this from churchofindustry
  23. theinkundermyskin reblogged this from neutralgenius
  24. mr-raccoon reblogged this from filmsandfoxes
  25. neutralgenius reblogged this from doriandawes
  26. theimmortalspirit reblogged this from doriandawes
  27. laszlotastic reblogged this from churchofindustry
  28. gooch76 reblogged this from filmsandfoxes
  29. grapefang reblogged this from churchofindustry
  30. jmassabrook reblogged this from filmsandfoxes

Blog comments powered by Disqus