Home Media Magazine - January 27, 2008 - (Page 14) ELECTRONIC DELIVERY www.homemediamagazine.com Sony to Offer On-Demand DVDs By Erik Gruenwedel to traditionally produce a DVD. ony Pictures Home EntertainDavid Bishop, president of Sony ment last week became the Pictures Home Entertainment, said first major studio to the deal lets the studio deliver offer select catalog titles for a broader range of niche and liproduction and distribution brary titles more economically. through Hewlett-Packard’s “We know there is strong con(HP) manufactured-on-desumer demand for these titles, mand (MOD) DVD service. and by working with HP, we Financial terms of the li- David Bishop may now monetize our deep cense deal and names of product library,” he said. the pertinent catalog titles, which Retail chain Trans World last year include between 75 and 200 movies, became the first company to use were not disclosed. HP separately has 40 DVD license deals for about 5,000 titles with Arts Alliance America, First Look Studios, By Erik Gruenwedel Gaiam Americas Inc., Nelvana Enmazon.com has launched an onterprises, Venevision International line store, Independent Voices, Films LLC, Vanguard Cinema, TLA featuring actor and director Jon Releasing and Wolfe Video LLC. Favreau as the link’s curator. HP Video Merchant Services alThe store seeks to highlight Amazon’s lows retailers to produce and sell selection of independent movies, arthouse on-demand DVDs and limited- films and on-demand DVD burning. edition discs at a fraction of the cost BRIEFS I ADV GOES VOD ADV Films’ Anime Network has a new partner. Starting this month, subscribers to cable provider Mediacom Communications will be able to access the subscription-based video-on-demand service. The move now makes Anime Network accessible to 33 million households nationwide. $9.6 billion and a profit of $1.58 billion. In a conference call announcing the results, little mention was made of Apple’s new iTunes movie rental service, which launched last week. However, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer did say the company was excited about the new service. “We think that our consumers are really loving the product,” he added. S MOD. Consumers log onto Trans World’s fye.com online store to place orders, which are processed and mailed within 24 hours. Doug Warner, VP of content services with HP, said internal studies of the home entertainment industry found that a sizable percentage of studio catalog fare offered by distributors was not actually available in physical form due to replication costs associated with limited production runs. I HBO WILL OFFER ITS CONTENT ONLINE HBO subscribers have a bonus coming their way: The cable channel provider will start giving its customers access to HBO content via live streaming and downloads on their computers. The New York Post reported that HBO on Broadband has begun its rollout in Wisconsin, with Time Warner Cable and Roadrunner Internet service subscribers being the first beneficiaries. The Post reported that HBO is in talks with other cable operators, and the service eventually will offer more than 600 titles for download, including previews of series and sample episodes. I WATERMARKING TO GROW Digital watermarking and fingerprinting technologies could grow into a $500 million worldwide business by 2012, largely due to content-owner demand and the fear of runaway peer-to-peer networks, according to a new report from MultiMedia Intelligence. “Beyond Traditional DRM: Moving to Digital Watermarking & Fingerprinting in Media Monetization” also points out that relevant digital rights management techniques have a place as well. The report examines the work of companies such as Cinea, Philips and Verimatrix, and hints that high-def content could find its way to video-on-demand before optical discs, thanks to secure watermarking. – Chris Tribbey AMAZON BOWS INDIE STORE A Favreau is slated to provide reviews and recommendations on the site. Favreau, who directed the May 2 theatrical release Iron Man starring Robert Downey Jr., last summer released his Emmy-nominated “Dinner for Five” series on Amazon, including favorite episodes for burning via Amazon’s CreateSpace DVD on Demand. 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