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litheraWarner Bros is the first studio to open its film vault for print on demand DVDs, making it possible for fans to buy films that had been stuck in the vault. Most of what WB is offering is more obscure titles but a lot of these titles either had limited or no DVD release. Print on demand DVDs are not a new thing but it is new that a big studio is jumping into the fray and looking to provide customers with the long tail of their releases.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/dvd/2009-03-22-classic-films-on-demand_N.htm
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In similar news The University of Michigan Press announced that more that at least 50 of the more than 60 monographs they produce each year will now be released in digital form. They've seen that print (for monographs) is a really broken business model. As more and more scholarly works go on-line, we'll need to work on authentication for sourcing.
Also, I've noticed a sort of backlash recently, with the idea that 'if you don't print it out, it will be lost forever'. Not it could be but there are /lots/ of people out there who are convinced that keeping a digital copy only means eventual lost data. Now, either that assumes that all electronic devices will fail at some point (over a long enough span, perhaps), we'll get to a point where we can't retreive information from older forms of memory (my BetaMax tapes!) or we're headed for some sort of dark age or apocalyptic future. I like having paper and printed pictures and all of these things but just because I have digital copies doesn't mean they'll be lost forever.
We just need to get better at presentation. It is easy to show slides or photo albums. It is harder to show the data on a hard drive or SD card.
In other news, there is an Astro Boy trailer out there. You can find it on Hulu. It looks like fun, which I wasn't expecting.
ImageMovers and Disney are in negotiations to pick up film rights to "The Stoneheart Trilogy". The third book in the series is due out in the next month.
Tom Selleck, Catherine O'Hara and Martin Mull have all joined the cast of Five Killers. This is a Lionsgate action comedy that stars Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl. Sounds like we need two more? I've missed Tom Selleck and Martin Mull.
NBC has put the first 11 Quantum Leap episodes online as part of their Vintage Shows Online series. Man, I loved that show.
New Moon casting continues. I still can't bleieve that Twilight sold 3 million copies. Then again I do know some people who were eagerly awaiting their copies.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/dvd/2009-03-22-classic-films-on-demand_N.htm
www.warnerarchive.com
In similar news The University of Michigan Press announced that more that at least 50 of the more than 60 monographs they produce each year will now be released in digital form. They've seen that print (for monographs) is a really broken business model. As more and more scholarly works go on-line, we'll need to work on authentication for sourcing.
Also, I've noticed a sort of backlash recently, with the idea that 'if you don't print it out, it will be lost forever'. Not it could be but there are /lots/ of people out there who are convinced that keeping a digital copy only means eventual lost data. Now, either that assumes that all electronic devices will fail at some point (over a long enough span, perhaps), we'll get to a point where we can't retreive information from older forms of memory (my BetaMax tapes!) or we're headed for some sort of dark age or apocalyptic future. I like having paper and printed pictures and all of these things but just because I have digital copies doesn't mean they'll be lost forever.
We just need to get better at presentation. It is easy to show slides or photo albums. It is harder to show the data on a hard drive or SD card.
In other news, there is an Astro Boy trailer out there. You can find it on Hulu. It looks like fun, which I wasn't expecting.
ImageMovers and Disney are in negotiations to pick up film rights to "The Stoneheart Trilogy". The third book in the series is due out in the next month.
Tom Selleck, Catherine O'Hara and Martin Mull have all joined the cast of Five Killers. This is a Lionsgate action comedy that stars Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl. Sounds like we need two more? I've missed Tom Selleck and Martin Mull.
NBC has put the first 11 Quantum Leap episodes online as part of their Vintage Shows Online series. Man, I loved that show.
New Moon casting continues. I still can't bleieve that Twilight sold 3 million copies. Then again I do know some people who were eagerly awaiting their copies.
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Date: 2009-03-24 06:26 pm (UTC)