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Video Goes Online: NetFlix, Blockbuster, Joost, Apple. Zune Games

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January 17, 2007

Posted by neillevine

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Alost everyone who is into music knows the internet has wrought great changes in the music marketplace, from forcing long standing retailers like Sam Goody and Tower Records to close to exponentially expanding the quantity and quality of choices available to afficionados.

The fact music has gone online has made MP3 players and iPods commonplace. Now you can listen to what you want anywhere anytime anyhow.

So announcements from companies like Netflix, Microsoft, Apple and Joost that they are making video available online opens up the potential for analogous major changes in the movie video business.

What Netflix, Blockbuster, Joost, Amazon, Apple and possibly some of the major movie studios are promising is the ability for a regular computer user to watch movies on his or her computer screen. Netflix says June, 2007 for New York. Blockbuster is promising to follow Netflix in short order. This is in addition to CinemaNow, Movielink and Vongo, which already rent major motion pictures plus independent and other options on their sites. The promise is an immediate showing from a choice of around one thousand current titles.

Not bad.

And for those who find their computer screens insufficient or inconvenient for whatever reason, there is going to be a lot of new equipment on sale to improve the experience. Apple’s iPod is video accessible making viewing possible anywhere, at any time and, for people who like big screens, Apple soon is going to sell a device they call Apple TV, which will transmit movies from your computer to your wide screen television set to make the experience more enjoyable. Along with other major companies making important electronic equipment available you can enjoy your home theater and not go through the hassle of visiting a multiplex movie theater.

So with all this in mind, it is no surprise that the iPod is vastly outselling Microsoft’s Zune, with more features, more available accessories and more music to play, although Microsoft is promising game playing features for consumers who are interested in that entertainment area.

The future of entertainment is clearly going online.

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