Share For the past few years the home video industry has been undergoing some traumatic changes. Although there was an almost seamless transition from the VHS to the DVD format, the shift to a high definition disc format has been stifled as a result of the format battle between HD and Blue-Ray. It’s also possible [...]

Share Yesterday an article in The New York times highlighted the results of a media industry report from the private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS): An interesting shift occurred in 2008, the report said. For the first time, consumers spent more time with media they paid for, like books or cable television, than with [...]

Share Sometime on Wednesday February 11, Netflix passed the 10 million subscriber mark. This milestone was exceeded by how quickly the company reached it. During the past two months Netflix has grown by 600,000 subscribers; roughly double the rate of its previous quarter. At 1.2 million subscribers a quarter, Netflix would reach 14.5 million subscribers [...]