Onward and Upward for 3D Blu-ray

I wasn’t surprised to see some of the encouraging numbers for 3D Blu-ray which were reported this week in Home Media Magazine. With Avatar, consumer interest in 3D Blu-ray jumped and the phenomenal success of this title has encouraged studios to keep 3D front and center for other tentpole titles. Consumers seem to be ‘getting’ […]

The Good News is Blu!

For those of you keeping your finger on the pulse of the home entertainment business, a couple good news items about disc-based media and Blu-ray in particular have published recently in Home Media Magazine. The first I want to share is Home Media Magazine‘s “Total Disc Sales Revenue” chart, a weekly tracking of both DVD […]

Giant Loves Indie Film

Giant began 2012 with a new presence in the world of social media. Over the past nine months, we’ve planted our flag in the Twitterverse, Facebook and Linked In and established this very blog that you’re reading right now. Social media is the hot topic in marketing and according to the research that our marketing […]

A Second Golden Age of Television…Delivered Digitally

Fast on the tail of the WSJ article about Binge TV viewing comes another TV-viewing-related news item in which Neilsen reports that Netflix customers are increasingly likely to be using the service to watch television series rather than movies. “Nineteen percent of survey respondents said they prefer to use Netflix for TV programming, an 8% […]

Looking to the Future of DVD, Blu-ray and Digital Distribution

One of our most valuable resources when it comes to keeping an eye on the evolving world of home entertainment media is the DVD and Blu-ray sales chart found on the Home Media Magazine website. For those unfamiliar, Home Media Magazine is, perhaps, the leading publication in the country reporting specifically on home entertainment. This […]

The Bad News About Cheaper Discs

The the long-term viability and utility of DVD and Blu-ray Discs is an issue always in the back of our minds here at Giant Interactive. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes hit the nail on the head in this recent item in Home Media Magazine, where he noted that disc-based entertainment will continue to be viable […]

Will The Shift To Streaming Via Mobile Devices Help Sustain Physical Media?

The ‘connect anywhere’ capabilities of tablets and smartphones are enabling a revolution in how content is consumed and, in turn, changing how viewers interact with that content. Could these shifts in consumer behavior have the secondary effect of helping to sustain physical media? Increasingly, viewers are leaving the living room TV behind and using their […]

Good-bye DVD? I think not.

I’ve seen a couple articles this week about the coming supremacy of streaming over the disc. The latest, seen on Techcrunch.com, radiated excitement in “Report: More Movies Will be Streamed Than Watched on Disc in 2012”. In short, “…more viewers will stream movies than watch them on disc, an inflection point that can only mean […]

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