I was listening to the radio this morning on the way to work and Brook Shields was talking to Valentine (I know, my radio station selection sucks, but in my defense, I had just switched over from Mike and Mike where they were talking about college football and I am still sad about JoePaw losing and not having the chance to retire with a championship) about the failing television ratings for Lipstick Jungle and other shows. She was complaining (but in a nice way) that so many people TIVO/DVR and so few people watch live TV. I'm a big Tivo junkie. In fact, we start watching shows 15 minutes into them so that we can fastforward through the commercials in the event that we watch a show live (which is rare). Anyway, the point is that TV shows are going to have to do more product placement in order to survive. Many of the shows that I follow I watch via the Internet. It allows me to schedule TV watching during the time that is most convenient for me (usually on Saturday evenings when I am sewing). In an effort to gain more revenue and attract a different, perhaps …
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Movie sound tracks make very little money in the marketplace so Mark Cuban has an idea to make better use of the music. It takes a lot of cash to promote a movie so Mark wonders how many more people would go to the movie if they knew that their movie ticket stub had a code to unlock a free download of the movie’s soundtrack. Or if they bought a ticket online in advance of the release, they could download the soundtrack right from the online ticket site. Would this entice you to get off the couch and go to the movies?
Just a day after Wal-Mart announced its movie download plan, Amazon and TIVO revealed its partnership to allow TIVO users to download movies from Amazon to be watched on the TV. I love this idea and hope that the movies are HD quality. The lack of DVD like quality is the reason I haven’t jumped onto the downloadable movie bandwagon.
Via Forbes.
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