Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
It seems that the internet is about to do for movies what has already been done for music. In a historic first, Hollywood studios will allow consumers to download selected movies and burn them to DVD for purchase.
The online service called Movielink is owned jointly by five major
studios, Buena Vista, Lionsgate, MGM, Sony Pictures and Universal
Studios, and will rely on digital rights management technology to
prevent pirate DVD copies being made. The first batch of movies will be
about 100 titles.
Apple is rumoured to be on the verge of
announcing a movie rental scheme through its iTunes store, after
failing to convince studios to allow it sell movies to consumers
through the online store. Apple wanted to sell movies at US$9.99, while
the Movielink price will be US$8.99. It is not clear yet how the Apple
download rental system will work.
Whatever movie download system
consumers use, however, it is a long way from penetrating the wider
consumer market. Movies are multi-Gigabyte files that will take hours
to download on a very fast broadband connection. Unless there's a
blizzard outside, a quick trip to a Blockbuster store will still be
more convenient for most movie watchers for some time to come. So
retailers needn't shut up shop just yet.
David Bass
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