Online pay-per-view movies We decided to discuss the topics of the Internet as new media of pay-per-view movies. Because I think this is a very fresh new topic that has not been discussed and not attracting much attention. The advent of this new medium comes from trying to prevent online movie pirates from stealing movies to actually purchase them at a lower price. I think it is particularly important to write this article on the campus of the university as rapid online communication provided by the university leads to many of the film's illegal copies.
People outside the entertainment industry may not be like this now, but in Hollywood this is a big problem. After the movie was first published at the theater, watch it on prepayment, then buy it online, or purchase as Blu Ray, and finally for all Windows as a rental or streaming subscription service. The window determines when the movie can move from one stage to another stage. Within certain windows, you can not usually deliver in other formats. This is to protect the owner of a theater who does not want to screen a movie and you can download it to your mobile phone with a single admission fee. I guess this is the reason, but at least it understands the complexity of the content window management in the near place.
Netflix has entered the video on demand (VOD) industry by providing streaming movies through its website. Not only the industry, DVD rental (online provider such as Netflix, rental from cable service such as On Demand or Pay-Per-View) is also part of the large industry "Watch movies at home". However, since Netflix has targeted this market since online video rental, the small video on demand industry needs a lot of money, so potential entrants are costly to acquire movie licenses to offer We face the cost of. Furthermore, considering that this market is only testing water, it is too expensive for the company. Since famous video rental retailers already have the experience of marketing movies to people, they will be more experienced than potential competitors. For example, Netflix invested more than $ 40 million to start a "watch now" streaming video service shocked many shareholders.