Revisiting Star Wars with the Content Delivery War

[Audioholics]

<A href="http://www.audioholics.com/news/editorials/contentdeliverywar.php"><IMG style="WIDTH: 125px; HEIGHT: 84px" alt=[LukeLeiaHan1] hspace=10 src="http://www.audioholics.com/news/thumbs/LukeLeiaHan1_th.jpg" align=left border=0></A>A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... It's hard to believe that it has been over twenty years since George Lucas sprung Star Wars on us. Today we are entering a content delivery war and it isn't in a galaxy far, far away. Tellywood is feeling a disturbance in the Force as if millions of voices suddenly cried out! Their money model is broken and they struggle to regain control of their ship. It's becoming apparent that it will be impossible. The Sundance Festival proves great video doesn't have to cost tens of millions to produce. With as little as $10,000 and a lot of sweat labor, material can be produced people actually want to see...

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[MBauer]

Yes it is.....

I thought it was nearly 30 years ago that George gave us Starwars?

 

[rr2465]

Yeah...

You're right - its coming up on 30 years. 1979, right?

 

[MBauer]

May of 1977

Episode 4, A New Hope came out in May 1977

 

[MDS]

Maybe 9 years ago was the first DVD release.

 

[Buckeyefan 1]

The original release date was 5/25/77. Believe it or not, it was 1 year before Richard Donner's "Superman, The Movie" in 1978. A third of the guys at this forum probably weren't born!

 

[efzauner]

What I dont understand is why Bill Gates doesn't just go out and buy up a big Tellywood company. He will then have control of the content and be able to push thru laws that allows all this nice video everywhere dream.

 

[Audioholics]

You caught us... we fixed the original fairly quickly (to 20), got it wrong again, and re-fixed it (to 30).... I can't count today it seems.

 

[Buckle-meister]

You caught us...

You underestimated the powah of the Force Clint. That, or Star Wars fanaticism.

 

[claudermilk]

I just figured the re-release was being referred to. Showing my age, I remember going to see it the first time around (oohhhh! Dolby stereo! aaahhhh! ).

 

[Wayde Robson]

Great piece.

"Bubble" is an indie film being released on Jan27th and will be the first film ever to be released simultaneously to theaters, HD digital cable and DVD. The film was shot on a low budget with digital HD cameras and has a cast of non-professional actors.

An indie production trying something new is well… nothing new. But what separates Bubble from just any old indie flic is that the director of Bubble is none other than Academy Award winning director Steven Soderbergh. Soderbergh is the first ever director to run against himself for best director Oscars when Traffic and Erin Brockovich were nominated.

This is significant to the very anarchy of home entertainment we're seeing. I am hopeful that the artists themselves have a lot of say in how much of this pans out.

Kudos to Soderbergh, he’s out there showing us all how it should be done.

 

[Shadow_Ferret]

I'm confused. I thought they were going to talk about Star Wars.

What is Tellywood?

I need more coffee.

 

[Wayde Robson]

I was a little confused by tellywood too. I think maybe hollywood and television? In the context of the entertainment developers and the old guard business model of selling wares to the public in movie houses or on silvery discs in stores, subscriptions that sort of thing. The tellywood business model is resistant to change that involves the data, internet, file sharing, copying.

It's understandable that 'tellywood' wants to stay profitable. But they'll just have to find clever ways of staying in the new digital age. I've never understood what's wrong with .99 cent songs from iTunes? It seems like a consumer/tellywood win/win to me?

 

[JES14]

Yes, almost 30 years since Star Wars debut, yes there is a format war brewing...but what point is the auther of this thread trying to make?