Hollywood Studios And The Internet

Apple, Disney Studios, Warner Brothers, NBCcompanies and Hollywood would have to adapt
Universal,Amazon and even George Lucas herald asooner or later to the new digital age, of production
change in the way movies are made and ultimatelyand distribution. When asked about file sharing and bit
delivered to the public.torrent specifically Lucas stated that it would be the
Apple in recent days has attempted to stake a claimfuture of Hollywood and that Steve Jobs and others
on the movie download market by striking a deal withhad already grasped that concept.
Disney Studios to deliver movie down loads. Earlier thisThe major retailers of DVDs, such as Walmart and
year Warner Brothers announced an agreement withTarget have communicated to the Hollywood studios
the software firm Bit torrent to enable moviethat they will not sit still for downloads that would be
downloads to your computer. Bit torrent's softwarecheaper than the DVDs they sell. Apple has been
application has long been the choice of peer to peerresponsive and is said to be discussing an agreement
file sharing pirates because it allows fast downloads ofon the pricing of down loads from it's itunes site.
large files and uses very little bandwidth.As usual the big players are attempting to control how,
Last week Apple together with Disney studios jumpedwhere and at what price the next generation of
into the movie down load market and offered two keymovies will be delivered to the public. All the major
features to it's movie download service. First it usesplayers want to control the delivery process but the
the ipod as the device for downloading. Second,time for that has passed. George Lucas himself said
knowing that the ultimate viewing choice for moviesthat with web sites like Youtube, film makers can
for the public will be the television or home theatre.show case their talent and deliver it to the public very
Apple indicates it will introduce a set top box to workcheaply, they don't need a Hollywood Studio.
with the TV thus bridging the gap between internetUsing the internet as a proving ground for content
delivery and end user's desired viewing choice.creation and distribution has finally come of age now
This puts Apple in a position to capture a middlemanthat high speed internet access is so wide spread. So
role and to make money on a device to ease theget ready Hollywood change is coming like it or not.
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George Lucas in an interview with CNBC earlier thiswebsite.
year and again last week stated that the movie