The Sorry State of the Entertainment Industry
Sep 18, 2005
It blows my mind as I watch Apple tighten its grip on the music industry. They recently released the Rokr phone and the iPod Nano, while only a few short months ago, Sony released the PSP - a remarkable device that I see TONS of people on the street carrying around (actually playing as they walk). Friends of mine who have it are addicted to it.
Will someone please explain to me why Sony didn't follow Apple's highly successful model? Why didn't they launch a music downloading service where you download the music to the PSP, and have the device serve as a video game device, dvd player AND an MP3 player. In case you've been living in a hole somewhere in the woods, you would have noticed that every film being released on DVD (by Sony) mentions in their commercials "available on DVD & PSP on 'x' date." Actually - someone did try to explain this... I read it here the day after writing this blog.
I can't wait for the record labels to implode... the movie studios are next. I just read an article about Blockbuster (formerly part of Viacom) "considering" VOD... here's all I have to say:
While the headline is rather uplifting, the article is rather upsetting. The worst is this line:
"Blockbuster has about a dozen technicians who work part-time on development of online video."
That's all they are committing the future of their business? WTF?
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