Hollywood Studios And The Internet, A Change Is Coming Like It Or Not
Apple, Disney Studios, Warner Brothers, NBC Universal,Amazon and even George Lucas herald a change in the way movies are made and ultimately delivered to the public.
Apple in recent days has attempted to stake a claim on the movie download market by striking a deal with Disney Studios to deliver movie down loads. Earlier this year Warner Brothers announced an agreement with the software firm Bit torrent to enable movie downloads to your computer. Bit torrents software application has long been the choice of peer to peer file sharing pirates because it allows fast downloads of large files and uses very little bandwidth.
Last week Apple together with Disney studios jumped into the movie down load market and offered two key features to its movie download service. First it uses the ipod as the device for downloading. Second, knowing that the ultimate viewing choice for movies for the public will be the television or home theatre. Apple indicates it will introduce a set top box to work with the TV thus bridging the gap between internet delivery and end users desired viewing choice.
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