Netflix’s New Release Policy: Disaster Or Tempest In A Teapot?

By Steve Anderson - 11/12/2009 11:42:19 AM

So the word is now semi-officially out that Netflix plans to delay its offering of new releases by fully a month in exchange for a huge sack of free loot from the studios. Well, not DIRECTLY--the studios will just lower the price of the DVDs sold to Netflix in exchange for the opportunity to SELL ...

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Blu-Ray Now Top Dog At Paramount

By Steve Anderson - 08/17/2009 6:26:51 PM

Now here's an amazing piece of news, folks--Paramount is changing its priority scale.  Instead of releasing the DVD versions first, they're going to start releasing their Blu-Ray versions for sale as far as EIGHT WEEKS AHEAD. This won't affect rental versions, from what the news says--rather, this is meant to change the way people buy DVDs ...

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