Fox and Universal also started this with Redbox and Netflix in April, and I believe it's still in force. "New releases" aren't available for 28 days for rent.
http://gigaom.com/video/redbox-agrees-to-28-day-windows-for-fox-universal-titles/ If Warners manages to get the rental players (Netflix, Redbox, Dish/Blockbuster) to increase it to 58 days as reported (http://consumerist.com/2012/01/report-warner-bros-will-stretch-new-release-rental-window-from-28-to-56-days.html) others may fall in line. I can't imagine restricting the ability to rent films for 2 months will increase sales of DVDs as much as force customers to get other content or pirate what they want day-and-date rather than wait. We'll see. Roger Brown Manager UCLA Instructional Media Collections & Services 46 Powell Library Los Angeles, CA 90095-1517 office: 310-206-1248 fax: 310-206-5392 rbr...@oid.ucla.edu From: "Jaeschke, Myles" <mjae...@tulsalibrary.org<mailto:mjae...@tulsalibrary.org>> Reply-To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:22:29 -0800 To: "'videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:'videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>'" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>> Subject: Re: [Videolib] Studios with embargos The only one that is currently using this practice is Warner Bros. Fox attempted it a few years back and then abandoned it. Myles From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu> [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Ball, James (jmb4aw) Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 2:20 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu> Subject: [Videolib] Studios with embargos Hi All, I’m sure I have this somewhere but I can’t seem to dig it up. Does someone have a list of the studios that have a 30-day embargo (or longer) on video sales to rental operations and libraries? I want to say it’s Warner and Sony. Cheers, Matt ______________________________ Matt Ball Media Services Librarian University of Virginia mattb...@virginia.edu<https://mail.eservices.virginia.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=f9bb9e66e0cb45eb9c98da126198ad7e&URL=mailto%3amattball%40virginia.edu> 434-924-3812
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