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I don't think sales records would be relevant to Section 11, Rule 3 if it is a contract dispute between an author and a publisher. It's the actions surrounding the contract and its terms that matter.
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Okay I buy them killing Blockbuster, or at least having a big part in it with help from other streaming services, on-demand and RedBox, but how did it kill HD-DVD? HD-DVD died in early 2008 when Netflix streaming was in its infancy (until January of 2008 streaming wasn't unlimited). If anything the combination of Blu-Ray and users sticking with regular DVD killed HD-DVD. As for Nexflix nearly Killing Blu-Ray again not seeing it (unless you have some numbers?). Now if you want to argue that streaming in general has hurt physical media sales in general there is no doubt about that, but it's far from dire and bandwidth hogging UHD content has given physical sales a bit of a boost I believe.
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The only way they wouldn't be is if the defendant didn't do something that was in the contract. Oh and proving financial hurt is very hard to prove and yes it is on the plaintiff to prove the defendant hurt him. Oh and authors have an even harder time with contract disputes for the pure and simple fact of authors know how to read. |
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Yes, digital copies are somewhat standard especially for new releases, but that has nothing to do with Netflix supposedly "nearly killing Blu-Ray". I have no doubt studios would in many ways be happy to go digital only, but streaming isn't as high quality as physical at this point and while that doesn't matter for the masses it does matter for some so for now physical discs have their place and they include a digital copy as a bonus and to get folks into the digital streaming environment.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...-been-delayed/ Netflix was synonymous with streaming for the majority at that point in time. I'm sure that Apple and Hulu contributed to the end of the HD format war but they were still relatively small names in the field compared to Netflix. That was the big name. So yeah. Netflix killed HD-DVD. The only reason Blu-ray didn't get wiped out, too, is because Sony is frickin' huge. |
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Netflix wasn't that big of a name for streaming in early 2008. As I said they didn't even start offering unlimited streaming until January of 2008 (and HD-DVD was all but dead already then) before that subscribers only got an hour of content per dollar spent on their Netflix DVD subscription. Most people didn't even know what streaming was yet at that time. Hulu didn't even launch until March of 2008. |
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Worth bearing in mind, though, that (certainly in the U.K. - don't know about elsewhere) there are still many rural areas in which people can't get fast enough broadband speeds to permit high definition (or even standard definition) video streaming. You need about 3Mbits/sec for HD streaming; a friend of mine can only get about 0.5Mbit/sec broadband (he lives right at the limit of the line length ADSL will work over).
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The timing also closely follows the breakup of the LCD price fixing conspiracy. The resultant drop in HDTV prices combined with the US conversion from NTSC to ATSC (and cable companies converting to QAM) made HDTVs and HD video desirable things among US consumers. While DVD rentals were still Netflix's core business, they started pushing the conversion to streaming, and they pushed that conversion very hard. Within 2.5-3 years? Streaming became the core business and they started looking to sell or spin off the DVD rental service. |
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Even in 2016 there are plenty of folks that are happy to play low rez DVD's and have no desire to upgrade to blu-ray (although blu-ray now outsells DVD). It wasn't until 2008 however that all major studios even started releasing movies on blu-ray (Universal & Paramount being the last). |
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