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As consumers slowly move away from physical media purchases, at least one Hollywood studio head sees some positive news in the shift.
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Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, who has often been an outspoken critic of Redbox and other movie renters, says that evolving strategies on price and content access are moderating the decline in the purchase of movie discs.

Bewkes said that films bundling UltraViolet copies with physical discs and shortened gaps between theatrical and street dates are examples of the industry’s evolving strategy.
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Bewkes also pointed to digital sellthrough as a way to reestablish the concept of owning content in consumers’ minds. Said Bewkes:

“The industry will continue to experiment to get electronic sellthrough effectively priced offered … at a time when … it is more appropriate [economically], and easier to manage across all your devices, so [content] ownership is worth something,”

Bewkes and other studio heads can prattle on about changing consumers’ minds from a “rental” to “owning” setting, but is that still a possibility at this point?

[via Home Media Magazine]

4 Responses to “Warner CEO: Movie Disc Sales Decline Moderating”

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    ChadCronin [chadcronin]

    The problems with downloads or VOD or whatever they want to call is that you have to pay for data with someone get get it. Then you get a DRM copy and probably a low bit rate to reduce size. If the costs come down that helps but even if they organize the different sites to work under 1 program you still get this feeling they can take away the license or worry that you are gonna have some technical issue. If you go to download you have to make room to save things. I love Blu-ray except the DRM as well and adds. If I can start getting decent HD quality downloads that I can easilly hook up to my tv without some HDCP error, then I’ll be more open to it.

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    moviecrazy

    I will always prefer physical media to vod. No problems with internet, hard disk going bad etc… and I know it will always play when I want it to!

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    bart927

    What strategy? The decline is purely based on price and content.
    I, as a consumer, prefer physical media.. but even there, I have had it with purchasing 2nd rate products.
    I was so disgusted with the lack of quality on my last WB purchase, I tried to return it, but I forgot I am stuck because you “cannot return media because of copyright”… that’s bologna…. So I’ve stopped purchasing. When the quality returns, I may start again, but for right now, I’m done.

    These CEO’s will never get that because they’re NOT the ones purchasing the products. If you put out a good product at a good price people will buy it, stop insulting the consumer with the cheap garbage that is coming out.

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    Jack [visitor]

    “…so [content] ownership is worth something,”

    His definition of “ownership” is as follows:

    You can pay us for the privilege of having a DRM copy of the movie on your computer. This way we can send it to you only once so it saves us steaming costs. However, everytime you play it, your computer has to get authorization from our servers. You can not sell it. You really don’t “own” it, we just want you to think that since it’s on your drive you do.

    No thanks…