- Your Profile
- In the News
- Box Office
- Development
- Production
- Job Market
- Calendar
|
 |
HD DVD GETTING MORE LOOKS ON NETFLIX SITE THAN BLU-RAY Friday, October 5 2007 Of 14 million visitors to online DVD renter Netflix's website each month, only 48,000 viewed its pages devoted to releases in high-definition HD DVD or Blu-ray discs, according to Compete.com. Examining the data, the website High-Def Disc News commented Thursday, "Curiously, although those who looked at Blu-ray titles outnumbered those looking at HD-DVD by a factor of 1.8 to 1, among those who set an hi-def format as their preferred disc format, HD-DVD was chosen (more) BLOCKBUSTER HURTING IN WAR WITH NETFLIX Tuesday, August 7 2007 Blockbuster may have drawn business away from rival Netflix with its Total Access plan that allows subscribers to rent or return movies at either its stores or via its website, but the plan, according to Barron's magazine, is "killing its bottom line," resulting in a loss of before-taxes loss of $113 million in the last quarter. Barrons quoted Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes as saying, While we remain committed to capturing market share in the overall (more) |
|
|
Netflix, which many analysts say has been able to keep ahead of Blockbuster with a remarkable system for recommending movies to customers, has not been able to award the $1 million it promised to the first person or team who could come up with a suggestion system that was 10 percent more accurate than its own. But, it said Tuesday, it has awarded a $50,000 "progress prize" to an AT&T Labs group who improved the system by 8.43 percent. Netflix claimed that 27,000 contestants from more than 160 countries have participated in the competition so far. The company said that it will continue to award such prizes until the 10-percent goal is reached.
