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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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<span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;
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font-family: arial;">December 15th, 2010</span></p>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
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alt="movie scene board" height="76" width="87"></a>Today
we are going to ignore all the news items about
WikiLeaks and <a
href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/discover-more-than-3-million-google.html">Google
eBooks</a> and look instead at movies. It's been
a while (<a
href="http://www.oplin.org/4cast/index.php/?p=1335">4cast
#193</a>) since we looked at developments in
ways to deliver movies to at-home viewers. Movies
are, of course, a substantial portion of the total
circulation of library items, but you might want
to consider these news stories before you order
more shelving for your DVDs (or VHS tapes). The
biggest news was the late-November announcement
from Netflix that they will offer a download-only
subscription service to movies and TV shows, and
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/11/netflix-intros-799-streaming-only-plan-bumps-dvd-prices.ars">Netflix
intros $7.99 streaming-only plan</a> (Ars
Technica/Jacqui Cheng) "'You might also wonder
why we haven’t introduced a new plan that
includes only DVDs by mail,' [Netflix VP of
Marketing Jessie] Becker wrote. 'The fact is
that Netflix members are already watching more
TV episodes and movies streamed instantly over
the Internet than on DVDs, and we expect that
trend to continue.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/business/25netflix.html">Netflix’s
move onto the Web stirs rivalries</a> (New
York Times/Tim Arango and David Carr) "The
dilemma for Hollywood was neatly spelled out in
<a
href="http://netflix.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=376">a
Netflix announcement</a> Monday of a new
subscription service: $7.99 a month for
unlimited streaming of movies and television
shows, compared with $19.99 a month for a plan
that allows the subscriber to have three discs
out at a time, sent through the mail, plus
unlimited streaming. For studios that only a few
years ago were selling new DVDs for $30, that
represents a huge drop in profits."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_working_on_rival_to_netflix_streaming-only.php">Amazon
working on rival to Netflix streaming-only
subscription service</a> (ReadWriteWeb/Mike
Melanson) "Already, Amazon offers streaming
television shows and movies through its <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/video/ontv/start">Video
On Demand</a> product, which is available on
both computers as well as Internet TV devices,
but this provides more of an à la carte
offering. According to <a
href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704493004576001781352962132.html">The
Wall Street Journal</a>, the company is
'developing a Netflix-like subscription service
that would offer TV shows and movies, according
to people familiar with the matter. That service
would be included as a bundle with its Amazon
Prime shipping service, which costs $79 a year,
those people said.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/12/flix-on-stix-vending-machine-copies-movies-to-thumb-drives/">Vending
machine copies movies to thumb drives</a>
(Wired/Charlie Sorrel) "You jam a USB stick or
SD-card into one of its kiosks and pick a movie,
game or TV show. The 'flick' is then transferred
to your 'stick' and you can take it home to
enjoy it. Fees are based on how long you want to
keep the movie, costing $1 for 3 days, $2 for 6,
$3 for 9 days and $4 for 12 days. Once your time
is up, the movie-file will self-destruct."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Stock
market Fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">Last week,
Standard & Poor's promoted Netflix from their
S&P MidCap 400 index up to their widely
followed S&P 500 index of large-cap American
stocks. On the same day, they removed the New York
Times from the S&P 500 and put it in the
Midcap 400 index. </div>
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