Thursday, March 30, 2006

Movie Theater Execs Still Fighting Shrinking DVD Window

Harmful to consumers. Right. We believe you, you greedy bastards.

A Reuters newswire article by Paul Thomasch and Yinka Adegoke, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

Executives from top movie theater chains on Wednesday dismissed calls to shorten the period between a film's release on the big screen and on DVD, saying it would be harmful to studios, theaters and consumers.

Some studio executives, including Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger, have called for faster DVD releases to combat rising piracy over the Internet, amid slowing sales of DVDs and a U.S. box office slump.

More here.

posted by Fergie @ 3/30/2006 07:03:00 AM

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