Beyond the box

Apr 29th 2010

Television rushes online, only to wonder where the money is.

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Because so many programmes are available at the click of a mouse, people may be less likely to buy boxed sets of their favourite shows. Spending on DVDs in America fell from $20 billion in 2006 to $16 billion in 2009. That was partly because of the recession and the spread of kiosks that rent out DVDs cheaply, but Mr Bewkes of Time Warner says there has been a particularly steep decline in DVD sales of TV shows available free online.
http://www.economist.com/node/15980839