The Next Big Thing: The Present to The Future

In our last post,we posted a note on the surviving trend of the video store. The digital video store is another segment of the future.

Compass Points

• The cost for renting a movie will cost $3 to $5 and buying one will cost $10 to $15,
• TV shows would begin at $2 per episode. It cannot be rented.
• Apple just started offering 99-cent TV-show rentals from Fox and ABC.
• Due to copyright protection, Samsung's Media Hub limits each video can only be stored on five devices

Is this the next Netflix killer? I doubt it. Netflex has a very strong of product/service branding, a great connection with their client base and the killer instinct to continually evolve.

As one generation becomes more "on-demand", what is the survival probability of the old video store?

Side note: We predicted the on-coming trend of iptv in an earlier post. ... In our book project, we are contemplating on doing a case study on the origin and the impact of the iptv marketplace .