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• When it comes to downloading movies, both Apple and Netflix come to mind as the leaders in both sales and controversy for Hollywood. The latest quandary coming from the Hollywood Studios is to force iTunes and Netflix’s download store to remove certain movies as they are nearing their launch on network TV.  We all know that Hollywood has their chain of events that the life of a production sees; from theatres, DVD’s to TV and more. The Studio’s have united to control their content inside iTunes and Netflix to help time these chain of events to increase profits on their end and please the non-digital third party that is next in line to promote the product.
• Their immediate claim is that TV broadcasters pay too much money for the rights to air films coming to network TV and that having them dually available on the internet will decrease their viewers and concurrently ad sales. Sounds to me that Hollywood had no other choice but to please the TV networks with their decision, otherwise the films coming to TV may have started coming at a bargain rate. Network TV is a big money maker for the studios along with everyone involved with the production of that movie coming to air.
• The joke here is that the movies coming to TV are already available on DVD for rent, in-store for purchase and have already been available for download for months if not longer on iTunes or Netflix. So, what are the studios trying to accomplish here? We have made strides with digital streaming and downloads as a legitimate source for distribution with real revenue. Now the mid-level execs have put their genius together to try and establish control once again? Well, it won’t work. Movies on TV is already a dying breed as in this era. No one is willing to sit through a 90 minute movie with 120 minutes of commercials. Many will either digitally record it, download it illegally or just go to Blockbuster and rent it for a few dollars.
• Maybe when movies come to TV they should just try and control the all the channels of distribution. It will be like in Thailand where they lock up the alcohol from the people for 24 hours on election day. When a movie is coming network TV, they should ban it from being sold, streamed, rented or downloaded anywhere but the television. That will certainly increase profits right you dumbasses? I can’t wait to see the look on a kids face when he goes to Blockbuster to see his favorite Christmas movie locked up because it’s on network TV later. “Sorry honey, we’ll just have to watch it on TV’. ‘But, Mom I don’t want to watch commercials”

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