HD movies two months after theaters
By Kevin C. Tofel 
posted Jan 13th 2006 8:43AM
posted Jan 13th 2006 8:43AM
You can't fight it Hollywood:
folks want their first run high-def movies and they want to view them in the comfort of their own theater. We chatted
with Mark Cuban last year on the
whole "release in theaters and DVD and TV" concept; looks like Fox was listening. The COO of News. Corp,
Peter Chernin, indicates that Fox is working on a 60-day
plan: 20th Century Fox movies hit HD releases within 60 days of the theater release. Oh, how 21st century of
them!We haven't seen a movie in the theater since "E.T." (the original, mind you), so after spending mucho dollars on high-def equipment for the home, we're all over this. Granted, we need some HD-DVD or Blu-Ray love as the final piece to this puzzle, but for now we're hoping that the high-def releases become available over cable or satellite. It's possible that local Fox affiliates could pick these up, but that's not likely based on the financial impacts.
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I fully agree that movies should be put out on dvd, hddvd, blu-ray, whatever, right when they come out. The last movie I saw in the theater was king kong, and that was basically because I was forced to go. Hopefully hollywood will change with the continued low sales of theater tickets, I'm pretty sick of the current way things are run.
That's going to totally kill the movie theatre business. With only teens who need to get away from mom and dad for awhile going. Totally kill off your theatrical releases. And because of that you'll get more teenage movies. Good for the rental business. Though Blockbuster needs to start saying it's better to rent than buy. Did you really need to buy that copy of Wedding Crashers?