Convenience is named as the winning factor in the home DVD rental market in an article titled “Convenience is golden in video rental market,” by Sue Zeidler.

Convenience is key in the U.S. home DVD rental market and will likely separate the winners from the losers in the fragmented $8.5 billion sector…

“Consumers are constantly looking for convenience. Whoever offers that stands to gain market share,” said Tulsiani…

One winner is online video renter Netflix Inc…Others are those companies that are putting self-serve DVD rental kiosks in convenience stores…

“Kiosks and online rentals are the two growing segments of the packaged video rental market, which means the traditional video store is having to struggle to keep its market share,” said Jan Saxton, vice president of Adams Media Research…

The amount of money spent on renting movies via digital delivery is seen rising to $412 million in 2012 from $28 million in 2007, according to Adams Media. Adams Media forecasts the market for DVD rentals to grow to $8.5 billion in 2012, up from $8.2 billion in 2007…

Adams forecast spending at rental kiosks to rise to $926 million in 2012 from $198 million, and online subscriptions rising to $2.9 billion from $1.8 billion in that time frame…

Spending on store rentals is expected to fall to $4.6 billion in 2012 from $6.2 billion in 2007, said Adams Media…

Read the entire article here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSN2861176820080228?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true

Protocall Cites New Study; Projects $6 Billion DVD On-Demand Market By 2012

COMMACK, N.Y., Dec. 19, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — TitleMatch Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of Protocall Technologies Incorporated (OTCBB:PCLI), today announced that it is profiled as a leading provider of burn-on-demand technologies in a study by William Blair & Company that projects 25% of all DVDs sold by 2010 will be produced using burn-on-demand services, amounting to over $6 billion in potential annual sales for the newly developing market.

The findings are contained in a William Blair research report on Sonic Solutions, a key TitleMatch business and technology partner. The report provides the first in-depth look at the burn-on-demand industry and includes analysis based on interviews with industry players and news reports from Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers, Walgreens, The Wall Street Journal, Blockbuster, Amazon and others.

William Blair & Company, L.L.C. is a Chicago-based investment firm and leading research provider on high growth companies.

“This is the first study to focus on the rapidly evolving burn-on-demand market,” said Syd Dufton, President of TitleMatch Entertainment. “It explains the industry’s ecosystem including the role of content owners, retailers, hardware/kiosk manufacturers, copy-protection suppliers and our role in bringing all of the components together in one easy-to-use service for retailers. As the report concludes, we expect market momentum to drive significant annual growth for us in the years ahead.”

Analysis from the report, which is titled “The Future in Digital Media,” also concludes that: DVDs represent 67% of entertainment revenue, with Internet distribution still lagging at only 1% and having a slower projected growth rate than most expect going forward; studios realize a $5 to $7 cost savings from burn-on-demand through reduced manufacturing, packaging, distribution and storage fees; burn-on-demand can help retailers eliminate out-of-stocks, estimated to occur 30%-40% of the time; consumers will benefit from burn-on-demand through greater access to an expanding universe of DVD titles; and as many as 25,000 to 35,000 stores are expected to use burn-on-demand services by 2012.

http://www.primenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=133326