The future is Video on Demand. Hollywood will premiere movies on High Def in your home theater.
Going to the movie theater will be a memory.
NEW YORK, July 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. movie industry is gearing up for the latest technological advance in distribution, downloading from the Internet.
The New York Times reports several companies have been working for the past few months to get movies into a digital format suitable for download.
Sony plans to put 500 titles on line, Universal is working on 200 and Warner Bros. told the Times it has most of its 5,000-film library in digital format and plans to start online sales before the end of the year.
Film companies have apparently learned from the example of record producers, who discovered that allowing computer owners to download songs from the Internet for a price could be a profit center. The industry has been spurred by increased online piracy and by last week's Supreme Court decision that companies distributing file-sharing software can only be held liable if they are inducing customers to break copyright laws.
Throwing in the factor of our energy futures and its effect on transportation costs, I suspect you are correct.
You betcha! My kids to a fine job of making the floors sticky too ;)