Needham & Co., in case you were wondering, is a subsidiary of the Needham Group, a “nationally recognized investment banking and asset management firm”, so when these guys start talking money, it’s worth your time to pay attention. Blockbuster Video, who we all know has been having a miserable last couple years, just released fourth [...]

We’ve been keeping tabs on the various facets of the streaming war for some time now, folks, and the interesting thing here is that it’s actually much, MUCH bigger than anyone wanted to believe. We’ve seen players come and players go and alliances get forged, but what we really haven’t had a look at yet [...]

It’s pretty clear, folks, that Disney’s willing to give up its aspirations of offering its own streaming venue in favor of handing the ball off to Netflix, but not without a huge cost to Netflix.  Dig the word: Disney wants viewers watching Starz movies online through companies such as Netflix to pay more for what [...]

It makes perfect sense that a studio would want, desperately, to move its stuff via online distribution, folks. Why wouldn’t it?  No physical media, no transportation issues, no storage, no inventory costs.  Just take the completed product, put it on a server and let everybody pay some cash to make their OWN copy to their [...]

It’s almost the end of the decade, folks, and as such, this is the time when journalists everywhere, be they online or in print, get to turn pundit for a while and make future predictions. In fact, it’s downright expected. But one prediction that I got, that fits in pretty nicely with some of my [...]