By Georg Szalai
The window between the average movie’s DVD and VOD releases has shrunk to just five days, down sharply from the 30 to 45 days that were common a few years ago, according to BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield, who on Thursday chastised studios for mismanaging release windows.
Most movies are already being released day and [...]

Note that Netflix is also removing from the film detail pages (all together, or burying) the interactive and social networking aspects of their web site, e.g. Friends feature, Top 10 Lists, etc., and removing the  list of 5 films that people who liked this film also liked, etc? I have a nascent theory, but what [...]

By Matthew Garrahan, The Financial Times
Published: February 28 2010
Hollywood’s hopes for a future built on digital film downloads have been severely undermined by research showing cooling consumer demand for movies online.
The film industry was banking on digital distribution eventually replacing the income it generates from sales of DVDs, which have been in steep decline for [...]