Home Media Magazine - February 10-16, 2008 - (Page 5) www.homemediamagazine.com MENU FROM THE EDITOR BY THOMAS K. ARNOLD, PUBLISHER www.homemediamagazine.com Movies Won’t Face Same Fate as Music PUBLISHER & EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Thomas K. Arnold EDITOR IN CHIEF Stephanie Prange EDITORIAL Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angelique Flores Senior Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erik Gruenwedel Senior Reporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Tribbey Assistant Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Latchem Associate Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Billy Gil, Kyra Kudick Contributors. . . . . . . . . John Gaudiosi, Anne Sherber, Fred Topel, Ralph Tribbey, Holly J. Wagner Intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ruby Cardenas H ART Art Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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Jennifer Guerena For reprints, call 800-290-5460, ext. 100 or HomeMediaMagazine@reprintbuyer. com For direct-mail lists, call Ilene Schwartz, Kroll Direct, 216/371-1667 FAX 216/371-1669 ilene@krolldirect.com ow many times have we heard the warning that the Parallels between this business and our business are beyond me. home entertainment industry had better watch out, For starters, the way the public consumes music and movies is that we’re headed toward the same future as the completely different. There is no equivalent to the single; we don’t music industry? Ultimately electronic delivery will triumph; it’s watch individual chapters, or scenes. We watch the whole movie. merely a matter of time before packaged media is obsolete. Secondly, DVDs have remained affordable; movies can generally Hooey. be had for less than $15 at any big retailer the day they are released. The music industry effectively committed suicide due to its own So instead of being faced with the choice of a cheap electronic shortsightedness. First, the record companies “single” or a $20 CD, the movie consumer can killed off the single, which traditionally had been THE WAY THE PUBLIC CON- buy a packaged or digital version of the same the cheap entry point for a new artist or an estab- SUMES MUSIC AND MOVIES movie for roughly the same price — a value lished artist’s new record. Then Napster emerged IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. proposition that’s hardly out of whack. as a way for consumers to swap songs, which they THERE IS NO EQUIVALENT Then there’s the quality issue. A digital downno longer could buy individually in packaged- TO THE SINGLE WE WATCH load of a song sounds as good as a CD. But a media form. The music industry reacted by hiking THE WHOLE MOVIE. downloaded movie is “near-DVD quality,” hardly up the list price of new CDs to more than $20. something you want to hear when you’ve plunked This, of course, led to further sales declines — and more down $10,000 for a high-definition home theater system. consumers migrating to the Web, where they could easily snag Sure, we are moving more toward portability, with laptops and a song or two, which is all they wanted in the first place. iPods, but the studios have come up with a solution: including a digiUltimately the record companies realized their folly and developed tal copy on a physical disc, which I predict will become the norm. their own download model, while dramatically cutting back the price Music and movies may be close cousins, but they’re definitely of a new CD. But by then the damage had been done, and the whole not singing the same tune. portability trend only further hurt CD sales since iPods and other mobile devices rely completely on digital music files. Thomas K. Arnold’s e-mail address is tarnold@questex.com MARKETING Marketing Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristina Kronenberg 714/338-6743 Marketing Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaitlyn DeWaard Online Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Renee Rosado IN THIS ISSUE FEB. 10-16, 2008 / VOL. 30 / NO. 6 News …………………………… CALENDAR I WONDERCON 2008 The comic book convention is returning to San Francisco for its 22nd anniversary. Feb. 22-24 Moscone Center South, San Francisco info: www.comic-con.org/wc PRODUCTION Production Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bonnie Ling Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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For those not registered with the CCC, send permission request in writing to questexpermissions@reprintbuyer.com or call 800-494-9051 ext. 100. I LATINO DVD 5 TV DVD ………………………… 14 Ted Danson has found renewed fame on TV and in film, and Paramount is responding with season sets of “Cheers” and “Becker.” Cine Mercado ………………… 16 Well Go signs a distribution deal with Oxxo; Laguna gets Peruvian animated films; Image Entertainment readies DVDs for pregnant Latinas. News ………………………… Home Media Magazine, in cooperation with DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group, The Hollywood Reporter and the Entertainment Merchants Association, presents the fifth annual Latino DVD Conference. The event will feature a day full of informational sessions and panel discussions on the growing Latino home entertainment market. April 8 InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Los Angeles info: www.homemediaconferences.com Apple delays debuting downloadable movie rentals for the Apple TV, citing an unfinished software upgrade. Printed in the U.S.A. Reviews ………………………… 20 Research ……………………… 26 Does The Independent offer more than a string of Disney wins again with The Game Plan, topping cameos? Is Lake of Fire an illuminating look into both the sales and rental charts for the second the debate on abortion? week in a row. I PEVE DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT 2008 Established in 1992, the annual PEVE conference caters to the international home entertainment business. Industry players from more than 20 countries attend the conference, which this year will tackle such issues as digital home entertainment. 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