18 Quotes by Todd Chanko

The real issue here is whether or not there's going to be a paradigm shift or real channel shift (to video players).

But the idea is sound: leveraging the power of broadband to showcase what it does best -- video,

Here, you have a great example of two sister operations with mutual needs being satisfied by the other,

I think they've set the whole D.R.M. thing back at least a year or two.

Overall, it's important to stress on the revenue side that sales are up. It's not about Amazon not being able to increase its top line growth.

Microsoft was already far behind regardless of whether this deal would have been sealed or not.

While the larger footprint and revenue-generating units provide a great base for delivering video services, there is one catch: deployment. Mounting any kind of reliable -- and desirable -- video service is harder than press releases make it seem.

At this point in time, I see direct-to-consumer digital downloads of DVD titles as being a nice, incremental market for studios. It will not be a wholesale substitution of the retail channel.

There's only so much programming that the U.S. public will pay for at any given point of time.