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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) Jan. 24 became the first major studio to offer select catalog titles for production and distribution through Hewlett-Packard's (HP) manufactured-on-demand (MOD) DVD service.
Financial terms of the license deal and names of the pertinent catalog titles, which include from 75 to 200 movies, were not disclosed.
HP separately has 40 DVD license deals for about 5,000 titles with Arts Alliance America, First Look Studios, Gaiam Americas Inc., Nelvana Enterprises, Venevision International Films LLC, Vanguard Cinema, TLA Releasing and Wolfe Video LLC.
HP Video Merchant Services allows retailers to produce and sell on-demand DVDs and limited edition discs at a fraction of the cost to traditionally produce a DVD.
The service is seen as a means of affording smaller content holders packaged media distribution direct to the consumer or retail.
David Bishop, president of SPHE, said the agreement affords the studio a means of delivering a broader range of niche and library titles more economically to consumers.
'We know there is strong consumer demand for these titles, and by working with HP, we may now monetize our deep product library … without a significant investment in inventory,' Bishop said.
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Does anybody think this might be a way we could eventually see the Boetticher/Scott films on DVD?
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) Jan. 24 became the first major studio to offer select catalog titles for production and distribution through Hewlett-Packard's (HP) manufactured-on-demand (MOD) DVD service.
Financial terms of the license deal and names of the pertinent catalog titles, which include from 75 to 200 movies, were not disclosed.
HP separately has 40 DVD license deals for about 5,000 titles with Arts Alliance America, First Look Studios, Gaiam Americas Inc., Nelvana Enterprises, Venevision International Films LLC, Vanguard Cinema, TLA Releasing and Wolfe Video LLC.
HP Video Merchant Services allows retailers to produce and sell on-demand DVDs and limited edition discs at a fraction of the cost to traditionally produce a DVD.
The service is seen as a means of affording smaller content holders packaged media distribution direct to the consumer or retail.
David Bishop, president of SPHE, said the agreement affords the studio a means of delivering a broader range of niche and library titles more economically to consumers.
'We know there is strong consumer demand for these titles, and by working with HP, we may now monetize our deep product library … without a significant investment in inventory,' Bishop said.
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Does anybody think this might be a way we could eventually see the Boetticher/Scott films on DVD?
