Home Media Magazine - September 28 - October 4, 2008 - (Page 7) www.homemediamagazine.com MENU FROM THE EDITOR BY STEPHANIE PRANGE, EDITOR IN CHIEF www.homemediamagazine.com Two Retailers That Weathered Change 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 I ART Art Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melbert Sebayan Graphic Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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By the late 1990s, direct deals and important retailers in the video industry, Best Buy and complex copy-depth models dominated the rental business, Hastings Entertainment. flooding shelves with copies of the hits. Best Buy was an important player in the rise of video But a new format, DVD, appeared on the horizon to shake up sellthrough and DVD. Now on the 25th anniversary of its name the business once more. The little disc turned out to be a video change and expansion into video from its Sound of Music collector’s dream, but it also offered a low price for rental dealorigin, Best Buy is helping to transition the industry to Blu- ers that made copy-depth a snap. It also opened up a whole new ray Disc through both hardware and software business for used discs. Suddenly, by-mail initiatives. IT’S NOT EASY TO KEEP concepts such as Netflix took off, as did rental Hastings Entertainment, which has emABREAST OF THE VIDEO kiosks. Those concepts would not have been braced an a la carte entertainment concept WAVE, AND RETAILERS SUCH viable with clunky VHS cassettes. now being championed by the likes of Block- AS BEST BUY AND HASTINGS And now we are transitioning to yet another buster Inc., has weathered the difficulties of DESERVE KUDOS FOR THEIR format in Blu-ray Disc, which both Best Buy the music and video industries for decades, SAVVY. and Hastings are embracing, as they have outlasting such venerable institutions as Towembraced and adapted to the other changes er Records and Video. in the business. Much has been made of new digital players, such as iTunes It’s not easy to keep abreast of the video wave, and retailers and Netflix, but Best Buy and Hastings deserve a round of ap- such as Best Buy (on its 25th) and Hastings (on its 40th) deserve plause for riding the many waves of change in a business that kudos for their savvy business practices. seems to reshuffle the deck every few years. Thus, we celebrate their lasting influence in this industry When I first joined what was then Video Store Magazine in through special tributes (see pages 16-26). the early 1990s, the industry was primarily a rental business of VHS videocassettes (I don’t quite date back to Betamax, but Stephanie Prange’s e-mail address is sprange@questex.com MARKETING Marketing Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristina Kronenberg 714/338-6743 Marketing Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaitlyn DeWaard IN THIS ISSUE SEPT. 28-OCT. 4, 2008 / VOL. 30 / NO. 39 Best Buy/Hastings …… CALENDAR I E FOR ALL EXPO DIGITAL MEDIA Online Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Renee Rosado PRODUCTION Production Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bonnie Ling Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Evans 714/338-6769 Assistant Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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I FIFTH ANNUAL TV DVD AWARDS Presented by Home Media Magazine, the awards honor TV DVDs released between Oct. 1, 2007, and Sept. 30, 2008, in a number of categories. The awards will be selected by a consumer vote to be held online through Oct. 3. Oct. 14 Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, Calif. info: 714/338-6743 Pipeline ………………………… 38 “Pushing Daisies” Director Chris Bells talks about his beefy documentary Bigger, Stronger, Faster*, coming to DVD from Magnolia. Printed in the U.S.A. Health & Fitness ……………… 32 Research ……………………… 40 Lionsgate pumps up with franchises such as “The Sony Pictures’ Made of Honor beat Speed Racer to be Biggest Loser” and “Dancing With the Stars”; the top selling and renting DVD of the week. Anchor Bay launches its “Results Fitness” brand. I STREAMING MEDIA WEST The conference on all things digital delivery will feature multiple concurrent tracks each day on such subjects as social media and reinventing advertising. 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