How the Online Video Services Compare on Hit Movies

Tristan Louis at TNL.net compared hit movie availablility at Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu and DVD. 

The past year has seen an increas­ing align­ment in the libraries of titles offered by online stream­ers in an on-demand basis. At the same time, we have seen Net­flix appar­ently aban­don its strat­egy of offer­ing pop­u­lar movies on a sub­scrip­tion basis. Next week, I will look at whether Netflix’s efforts are get­ting more focused on tele­vi­sion streams or whether we are see­ing them pull back across the board in terms of avail­abil­ity of more recent content.

We are also see­ing Hol­ly­wood now treat­ing online as more equiv­a­lent to DVD sales, offer­ing titles for sale online at roughly the same rate as they do on DVD. Let’s hope that this trend con­tin­ues to hold and that the indus­try sees the wis­dom of pro­vid­ing online streams in an ear­lier release win­dow. A few inde­pen­dent movies have done simul­ta­ne­ous releases online and in the­aters this year and Hol­ly­wood has a poten­tial to increase its rev­enues if it were to increas­ingly go in that direction.

Comments

[WakkaWakka]

That guy is functionally retarded. He's comparing PPV (3.99+ per movie per day) to netflix streaming (8 bucks a month).

[momo]

The problem being she is comparing Netflix's "free" or subscription selection vs. AMZN/iTunes rental purchase selection.
What I want to know is how does Netflix's subscription selection stack up against AMZN free Prime selection.
Also, what is the rental /purchase price for the AMZN/iTunes movies.

[Billy]

I've compared menus: At Ruth's Chris Steak House they offer a Filet Mignon, while at McDonald's they only serve a quarter-pound hamburger!

[eviltimes]

Offering the movies online is not the equivalent to selling me the actual BD disc.
As far as attempting to get me to pay 6 to 10 bucks for a streamed film they are sadly mistaken. Not gonna happen.

[Robert Emmerich]

What everybody else already said. The internet may be limitless, but that article is still waste of space.

[FearNo1]

As others have stated, the article is pretty useless...comparing apples to oranges

[Judy_]

Thanks for the comments. You saved me from having to read the article.